AppRAISE: Application-level performance management in virtualized server environments

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 240-254

  Wang, Zhikui ^a   Chen, Yuan ^a   Gmach, Daniel ^a   Singhal, Sharad ^a   Watson, Brian J ^a   Rivera, Wilson ^b   Zhu, Xiaoyun ^c   Hyser, Chris D ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c VMWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Performance control; Performance model; Resource allocation; Virtualization; Workload consolidation

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION COMPONENTS; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; APPLICATION-LEVEL PERFORMANCE; BENCHMARK APPLICATIONS; CPU RESOURCES; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; FEED-FORWARD; MEAN RESPONSE TIME; MULTI-TIER APPLICATIONS; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE CONTROL; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE MODEL; QUEUING MODELS; REACTIVE CONTROL; RESOURCE DEMANDS; RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES; TIME VARYING; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATION;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 75149168797     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2009.04.090404     Document Type: Article

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