Optimal Multivariate Control for Differentiated Services on a Shared Hosting Platform
Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'07), Dec 2007.
Abstract: Today’s shared hosting platforms often employ
virtualization to allow multiple enterprise applications with
time-varying resource demands to share a common infrastructure
in order to improve resource utilization. Meeting
application-level quality of service (QoS) goals becomes a
challenge in such an environment as enterprise applications
often have a multi-tier architecture and complex interactions
and dependencies among individual tiers. In addition, when
the shared infrastructure becomes overloaded, appropriate
resource control needs to be performed at these individual
tiers in a coordinated fashion in order to provide differentiated
services to co-hosted applications. In this paper, we present
an adaptive multivariate controller that dynamically adjusts
the resource shares to individual tiers of multiple applications
in order to meet a specified level of service differentiation.
The controller parameters are automatically tuned at runtime
based on a quadratic cost function and a system model that is
learned online using a recursive least-squares (RLS) method.
To evaluate our controller design, we built a testbed hosting two
instances of the RUBiS application, a multi-tier online auction
web site, using Xen virtual machines. Our results indicate that
our controller is able to meet given QoS differentiation targets
between co-hosted applications while the total demand from
these applications exceeds the capacities of the shared systems.
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