A performance isolation analysis of disk-intensive workloads on container-based clouds

Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 253-260

  Xavier, Miguel G ^a   De Oliveira, Israel C ^a   Rossi, Fabio D ^a   Dos Passos, Robson D ^a   Matteussi, Kassiano J ^a   De Rose, Cesar A F ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Container based virtualization; Disk intensive workload; Performance isolation

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CONTAINERS; HARDWARE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SALES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS; DISK-INTENSIVE WORKLOAD; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; HARDWARE COMPONENTS; INFRASTRUCTURE RESOURCES; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE ISOLATION; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84962802494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2015.67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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