An empirical study on memory sharing of virtual machines for server consolidation

Proceedings - 9th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, ISPA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 244-249

  Chang, Chao Rui ^a   Wu, Jan Jan ^a   Liu, Pangfeng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Memory sharing; Server consolidation; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

CONTENT-BASED; DYNAMIC MEMORY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; I/O WORKLOAD; MEMORY FOOTPRINT; MEMORY SAVINGS; MEMORY USE; MEMORY-SHARING; ON DYNAMICS; PAGE SHARING; RUNTIME OVERHEADS; SERVER CONSOLIDATION; SHARING MEMORIES; STATIC MEMORY; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS;

RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EID: 80051610521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPA.2011.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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