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Elastic Virtual Machine for Fine-Grained Cloud Resource Provisioning

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Global Trends in Computing and Communication Systems (ObCom 2011)

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Elasticity is one of the distinguishing characteristics associated with Cloud computing emergence. It enables cloud resources to auto-scale to cope with workload demand. Multi-instances horizontal scaling is the common scalability architecture in Cloud; however, its current implementation is coarse-grained, while it considers Virtual Machine (VM) as a scaling unit, this implies additional scaling-out overhead and limits it to specific applications. To overcome these limitations, we propose Elastic VM as a fine-grained vertical scaling architecture. Our results proved that Elastic VM architecture implies less consumption of resources, mitigates Service Level Objectives (SLOs) violation, and avoids scaling-up overhead. Furthermore, it scales broader range of applications including databases.

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  1. Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany

    Wesam Dawoud, Ibrahim Takouna & Christoph Meinel

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  1. School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT University, 632014, Vellore, TN, India

    P. Venkata Krishna

  2. School of Computing and Engineering, VIT University, 632014, Vellore, TN, India

    M. Rajasekhara Babu

  3. London Metropolitan University, UK

    Ezendu Ariwa

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Dawoud, W., Takouna, I., Meinel, C. (2012). Elastic Virtual Machine for Fine-Grained Cloud Resource Provisioning. In: Krishna, P.V., Babu, M.R., Ariwa, E. (eds) Global Trends in Computing and Communication Systems. ObCom 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 269. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29219-4_2

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