Abstract
Our measurements on production datacenter traffic together with recently-reported results [1] suggest that datacen-ter networks suffer from long-lived congestion caused by core network oversubscription and unbalanced workload placement. In contrast to traditional traffic engineering approaches that optimize flow routing, in this paper, we explore the opportunity to address the continuous congestion via optimizing VM placement in virtualized datacenters. To this end, we present VirtualKnotter, an efficient online VM placement algorithm to reduce congestion with controllable VM migration traffic as well as low time complexity. Our evaluation with both real and synthetic traffic patterns shows that VirtualKnotter performs close to the baseline algorithm in terms of link unitization, with only 5%-10% migration traffic of the baseline algorithm. Furthermore, VirtualKnotter decreases link congestion time by 53% for the production datacenter traffic.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 12-21 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
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| State | Published - 2012 |
| Event | 32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2012 - Macau, China Duration: Jun 18 2012 → Jun 21 2012 |
Other
| Other | 32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2012 |
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| Country/Territory | China |
| City | Macau |
| Period | 6/18/12 → 6/21/12 |
Funding
This work was partially supported by National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2011AA01A101 , No. 2013AA013303 ).
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Networks and Communications