Cost-Efficient Consolidating Service for Aliyun’s Cloud-Scale Computing
| Autor: | Xi Li, Huining Yan, Yunyang Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Wei Cao, Feng Yu, Yu Xie, Zhongshan Liu, Huaimin Wang, Yuan Wang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Information Systems and Management
Cost efficiency Computer Networks and Communications Computer science business.industry 020206 networking & telecommunications Cloud computing 02 engineering and technology Computer Science Applications Consolidation (business) Utility computing Hardware and Architecture Software deployment Server 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing business Resource utilization Computer network Efficient energy use |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 12:117-130 |
| ISSN: | 2372-0204 |
| Popis: | Server consolidation is critical for energy efficiency of cloud-scale computing. In production environments like Aliyun, which is one of the largest public cloud platforms in the world, server consolidation has several challenges. First, the widespread use of local storage remarkably increases the migration cost (time). Second, the resource utilization of service instances varies over time, which may result in migration oscillation. Third, server consolidation must follow practical constraints. E.g., instances can only be migrated within a maintenance window, and both the resource utilization and the number of instances on a server are bounded. This paper designs and implements C4, a Cost-Efficient Consolidating Service for Aliyun’s Cloud-Scale Computing, which Aliyun uses to consolidate servers. We analyze user pattern, resource utilization, and migration cost in Aliyun, showing that traditional utilization-based consolidation approaches cannot meet the needs in production environments, especially for the local-storage-based computing. This motivates us to propose the migration cost model, by which to select servers with the minimum migration time to release. We use the Worst-Fit heuristic to migrate instances to balance the load. Evaluation shows that C4 achieves cost-efficient, load-balanced, and oscillation-free consolidating service. We describe experience with over one year of C4 production deployment, lessons learned, and areas for future work. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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