vPerfGuard: An automated model-driven framework for application performance diagnosis in consolidated cloud environments

ICPE 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 271-282

  Xiong, Pengcheng ^a   Pu, Calton ^a   Zhu, Xiaoyun ^b   Griffith, Rean ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VMWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

automated framework; cloud computing; model driven; performance analysis; performance diagnosis; statistical methods

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; AUTOMATED FRAMEWORK; CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS; MODEL-DRIVEN; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL LEARNING;

CLOUD COMPUTING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 84878168236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2479871.2479909     Document Type: Conference Paper

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