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The impact of management operations on the virtualized datacenter

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The impact of management operations on the virtualized datacenter
Virtualization has the potential to dramatically reduce the total cost of ownership of datacenters and increase the flexibility of deployments for general-purpose workloads. If present trends continue, the datacenter of the future will be largely virtualized. The base platform in such a datacenter will consist of physical hosts that run hypervisors, and workloads will run within virtual machines on these platforms. From a system management perspective, the virtualized environment enables a number of new workflows in the datacenter. These workflows involve operations on the physical hosts themselves, such as upgrading the hypervisor, as well as operations on the virtual machines, such as reconfiguration or reverting from snapshots. While traditional datacenter design has focused on the cost vs. capability tradeoffs for the end-user applications running in the datacenter, we argue that the management workload from these workflows must be factored into the design of the virtualized datac...
Vijayaraghavan Soundararajan, Jennifer M. Anderson
Added 28 Jan 2011
Updated 28 Jan 2011
Type Journal
Year 2010
Where ISCA
Authors Vijayaraghavan Soundararajan, Jennifer M. Anderson
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