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Image management in a virtualized data center

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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 36, Issue 2

Pages 4 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/1453175.1453177

Published: 31 August 2008 Publication History

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Industrial research firms such as Gartner and IDC are predicting an explosion in the number of online services in the coming years. Virtualization technologies could play an important role in such a world, as they create an opportunity to provide services in a cost-effective manner. However, to achieve ideal savings, more dynamic environments must be created, with Virtual Machines (VMs) being provisioned and altered on-the-fly. Management issues arise when using these elastic resources at scale. In this study, we provide an initial investigation of performance and scalability issues for image management in a virtualized data center. Results provided show that the choice of storage solution and access protocol matters. For example, our tests show the time to start a VM from a local hard drive under I/O intensive workload increases by a factor of 15 and for certain shared storage options, this factor increases to 30 times.

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Bertier MDesprez FFedak GLebre AOrgerie APastor JQuesnel FRouzaud-Cornabas JTedeschi C(2014)Beyond the Clouds: How Should Next Generation Utility Computing Infrastructures Be Designed?Cloud Computing10.1007/978-3-319-10530-7_14(325-345)Online publication date: 21-Oct-2014
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Ye KJiang XHe QLi XChen J(2010)Evaluate the performance and scalability of image deployment in virtual data centerProceedings of the 2010 IFIP international conference on Network and parallel computing10.5555/1882011.1882050(390-401)Online publication date: 13-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1882011.1882050
Fang HWang HZhao YSun YLiu Z(2010)TRIOB: A Trusted Virtual Computing Environment Based on Remote I/O Binding MechanismCryptology and Network Security10.1007/978-3-642-17619-7_18(241-260)Online publication date: 2010
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Image management in a virtualized data center
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems

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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 36, Issue 2

September 2008

138 pages

ISSN:0163-5999

DOI:10.1145/1453175

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Bertier MDesprez FFedak GLebre AOrgerie APastor JQuesnel FRouzaud-Cornabas JTedeschi C(2014)Beyond the Clouds: How Should Next Generation Utility Computing Infrastructures Be Designed?Cloud Computing10.1007/978-3-319-10530-7_14(325-345)Online publication date: 21-Oct-2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10530-7_14
Ye KJiang XHe QLi XChen J(2010)Evaluate the performance and scalability of image deployment in virtual data centerProceedings of the 2010 IFIP international conference on Network and parallel computing10.5555/1882011.1882050(390-401)Online publication date: 13-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1882011.1882050
Fang HWang HZhao YSun YLiu Z(2010)TRIOB: A Trusted Virtual Computing Environment Based on Remote I/O Binding MechanismCryptology and Network Security10.1007/978-3-642-17619-7_18(241-260)Online publication date: 2010
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17619-7_18
Ye KJiang XHe QLi XChen J(2010)Evaluate the Performance and Scalability of Image Deployment in Virtual Data CenterNetwork and Parallel Computing10.1007/978-3-642-15672-4_32(390-401)Online publication date: 2010
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