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Memory buddies: exploiting page sharing for smart colocation in virtualized data centers

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Shenoy, Prashant Desnoyers, Peter Tarasuk-Levin, Gabriel Corner, Mark D. Cecchet, Emmanuel Wood, Timothy
Abstract	Many data center virtualization solutions, such as VMware ESX, employ content-based page sharing to consolidate the resources of multiple servers. Page sharing identifies virtual machine memory pages with identical content and consolidates them into a single shared page. This technique, implemented at the host level, applies only between VMs placed on a given physical host. In a multi-server data center, opportunities for sharing may be lost because the VMs holding identical pages are resident on different hosts. In order to obtain the full benefit of content-based page sharing it is necessary to place virtual machines such that VMs with similar memory content are located on the same hosts. In this paper we present Memory Buddies, a memory sharing-aware placement system for virtual machines. This system includes a memory fingerprinting system to efficiently determine the sharing potential among a set of VMs, and compute more efficient placements. In addition it makes use of live migration to optimize VM placement as workloads change. We have implemented a prototype Memory Buddies system with VMware ESX Server and present experimental results on our testbed, as well as an analysis of an extensive memory trace study. Evaluation of our prototype using a mix of enterprise and e-commerce applications demonstrates an increase of data center capacity (i.e. number of VMs supported) of 17%, while imposing low overhead and scaling to as many as a thousand servers.
Starting Page	31
Ending Page	40
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605583754
DOI	10.1145/1508293.1508299
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2009-03-11
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Consolidation Page sharing Virtualization
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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