System Identification applied to virtual machines: an experiment with KVM, Xen and ARIX models

Authors

  • Guilherme Keiel Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
  • Vinicius Binotti Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS)
  • André Gustavo Adami Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS)
  • Fernando Augusto Bender Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18226/23185279.v4iss1p15

Abstract

The current consolidation of servers has been made possible due to the virtualization technology, assuring isolation, increasing the exploitation of the resources and reducing operating costs. This article analyses the application of two different virtualization technologies in servers. Virtual environments are created with the KVM hypervisor and with Xen, which uses paravirtualization. Through this virtual environments, experiments regarding dynamic memory allocation for a VM are performed. Knowing the technology with the best outcome, it was assessed which technique based on autoregressive modeling would best represent the virtual machine behavior. The stability of the selected model is analyzed and suggestions are made for applying control using the model for dynamic memory allocation in a virtual machine.

 

http://dx.doi.org/10.18226/23185279.v4iss1p15

Published

2016-03-06

How to Cite

Keiel, G., Binotti, V., Adami, A. G., & Bender, F. A. (2016). System Identification applied to virtual machines: an experiment with KVM, Xen and ARIX models. Scientia Cum Industria, 4(1), 15–20. https://doi.org/10.18226/23185279.v4iss1p15

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Section

Science, Education and Engineering