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Remedy: Network-Aware Steady State VM Management for Data Centers

Remedy: Network-Aware Steady State VM Management for Data Centers

  • Vijay Mann20,
  • Akanksha Gupta20,
  • Partha Dutta20,
  • Anilkumar Vishnoi20,
  • Parantapa Bhattacharya21,
  • Rishabh Poddar21 &
  • …
  • Aakash Iyer20 
  • Conference paper
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Abstract

Steady state VM management in data centers should be network-aware so that VM migrations do not degrade network performance of other flows in the network, and if required, a VM migration can be intelligently orchestrated to decongest a network hotspot. Recent research in network-aware management of VMs has focused mainly on an optimal network-aware initial placement of VMs and has largely ignored steady state management. In this context, we present the design and implementation of Remedy. Remedy ranks target hosts for a VM migration based on the associated cost of migration, available bandwidth for migration and the network bandwidth balance achieved by a migration. It models the cost of migration in terms of additional network traffic generated during migration.

We have implemented Remedy as an OpenFlow controller application that detects the most congested links in the network and migrates a set of VMs in a network-aware manner to decongest these links. Our choice of target hosts ensures that neither the migration traffic nor the flows that get rerouted as a result of migration cause congestion in any part of the network. We validate our cost of migration model on a virtual software testbed using real VM migrations. Our simulation results using real data center traffic data demonstrate that selective network aware VM migrations can help reduce unsatisfied bandwidth by up to 80-100%.

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  • Network aware VM migration
  • VM migration traffic modeling

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  1. IBM Research, India

    Vijay Mann, Akanksha Gupta, Partha Dutta, Anilkumar Vishnoi & Aakash Iyer

  2. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

    Parantapa Bhattacharya & Rishabh Poddar

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  1. Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

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  2. Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, 600 Mountain Avenue, 07974-0636, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

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  3. Instituto IMDEA Networks, Avenida del Mar Mediterraneo 22, Leganes, 28918, Madrid), Spain

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  4. Tsinghua-ChinaCache Joint Laboratory, Tsinghua University, FIT 3-429, Haidian District, 100016, Beijing, China

    Hao Yin

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Mann, V. et al. (2012). Remedy: Network-Aware Steady State VM Management for Data Centers. In: Bestak, R., Kencl, L., Li, L.E., Widmer, J., Yin, H. (eds) NETWORKING 2012. NETWORKING 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7289. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30045-5_15

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