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PLAN: Joint policy- and network-aware VM management for cloud data centers

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posted on 2018-07-31, 14:28 authored by Lin Cui, Fung Po TsoFung Po Tso, Dimitrios P. Pezaros, Weijia Jia, Wei Zhao
Policies play an important role in network configuration and therefore in offering secure and high performance services especially over multi-tenant Cloud Data Center (DC) environments. At the same time, elastic resource provisioning through virtualization often disregards policy requirements, assuming that the policy implementation is handled by the underlying network infrastructure. This can result in policy violations, performance degradation and security vulnerabilities. In this paper, we define PLAN, a PoLicy-Aware and Network-aware VM management scheme to jointly consider DC communication cost reduction through Virtual Machine (VM) migration while meeting network policy requirements. We show that the problem is NP-hard and derive an efficient approximate algorithm to reduce communication cost while adhering to policy constraints. Through extensive evaluation, we show that PLAN can reduce topology-wide communication cost by 38 percent over diverse aggregate traffic and configuration policies.

Funding

This work is partially supported by Chinese National Research Fund (NSFC) Chinese National Research Fund (NSFC) Project No.: 61402200 and 61373125; NSFC Key Project No. 61532013; National China 973 Project No. 2015CB352401; Shanghai Scientific Innovation Act of STCSM No. 15JC1402400 and 985 Project of Shanghai Jiao Tong University with No. WF220103001; the Science and Technology Fund of Macau (FDCT) Projects AQ2 under Grant 061/2011/A3 and Grant 092/2014/A2; the University of Macau Projects under Grant MYRG112-FST12-ZW and Grant MYRG2015-00165-FST; US National Science Foundation under grant 0963979; the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grants EP/N033957/1, EP/L026015/1, EP/L005255/1, EP/P004407/1 and EP/P004024/1.

History

School

  • Science

Department

  • Computer Science

Published in

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volume

28

Issue

4

Pages

1163 - 1175

Citation

CUI, L. ... et al, 2017. PLAN: Joint policy- and network-aware VM management for cloud data centers. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 28 (4), pp.1163-1175.

Publisher

© IEEE

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Acceptance date

2016-08-19

Publication date

2016-08-31

Notes

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ISSN

1045-9219

eISSN

1558-2183

Language

  • en