Sandpiper: Black-box and gray-box resource management for virtual machines

Computer Networks

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2923-2938

  Wood, Timothy ^a   Shenoy, Prashant ^a   Venkataramani, Arun ^a   Yousif, Mazin ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

^b Avirtec   (United States)

Author keywords

Data centers; Dynamic provisioning; Migration; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

BLACK BOX APPROACH; BLACK BOXES; DATA CENTERS; DYNAMIC PROVISIONING; HOTSPOTS; INFORMED DECISION; LEVEL STATISTICS; MEMORY PRESSURE; MIGRATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SINGLE SERVER; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUAL RESOURCE; VIRTUALIZATION; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70449528612     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2009.04.014     Document Type: Article

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