Multifaceted resource management for dealing with heterogeneous workloads in virtualized data centers
Íñigo Goiri, J. Oriol Fitó, Ferran Julià, Ramón Nou, Josep Ll. Berral, Jordi Guitart, Jordi Torres · 2010
As long as virtualization has been introduced in data centers, it has been opening new chances for resource management. Now, it is not just used as a tool for consolidating underused nodes and save power, it also allows new solutions to well-known challenges, such as fault tolerance or heterogeneity management. Virtualization helps to encapsulate Web-based applications or HPC jobs in virtual machines and see them as a single entity which can be managed in an easier way.