Dynamic resource balancing in virtualization clusters

• Název práce v češtině: Dynamic resource balancing in virtualization clusters
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Dynamic resource balancing in virtualization clusters
• Klíčová slova: virtualization, VMware vSphere, load balancing, cluster, resource allocation, private cloud, live migration, workload management
• Klíčová slova anglicky: virtualization, VMware vSphere, load balancing, cluster, resource allocation, private cloud, live migration, workload management
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2010/2011
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Katedra softwarového inženýrství (32-KSI)
• Vedoucí / školitel: RNDr. Jakub Yaghob, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 12.11.2010
• Datum zadání: 12.11.2010
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 05.09.2011 09:00
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 05.08.2011
• Datum odevzdání tištěné podoby: 05.08.2011
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 05.09.2011
• Oponenti: Mgr. Martin Děcký, Ph.D.

Zásady pro vypracování

Server virtualization has proven itself invaluable in Academia for
both educational and research purposes, as it allows, among others, to
create very complex network environments on top of much simpler
physical infrastructures and to cut costs by server consolidation.

While undoubtedly solving many problems, virtualization also brings a
couple of new challenges, one of them being workload management: As
the virtual machine (VM) workload is dynamic and, in most cases, hard
to predict, in time, some virtualization hosts (or more precisely,
their respective resources, e.g. processor and memory) become
over-utilized, while others under-utilized. This imbalance can be
corrected by live migrating VMs between hosts in a virtualization
cluster according to their current and/or historical workloads.
Although some commercial workload management solutions exist, they are
mostly targeted at the enterprise and therefore hardly affordable for
the Academia.

Thus, the aim of this thesis will be to analyse the problem of
resource load balancing in virtualization clusters, choose one of the
available techniques of solving this task and implement a pilot
version of resource load balancer for the VMware vSphere
Standard-based virtualization cluster.

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