A Framework for Autonomic Performance Management of Virtual Machine-Based Services
Markus Schmid, Dan Cristian Marinescu, Reinhold Kroeger · 2008
Abstract. This paper presents the design for a modular framework for autonomic QoS management of virtual machine environments. The framework separates the management APIs provided by individual virtual machine technologies from the high-level control algorithms, which makes the design of generic controllers possible. In addition, control algorithms can be replaced without effort, which provides an easy way for comparing the performance of different control algorithms. We discuss first approaches to control algorithms that were designed the framework. In addition, we present the prototypical implementation and show a number of test results that were gained during the validation of the approach. The paper closes with a conclusion and an overview on future work. 1