Tackling the challenges of server consolidation on multi-core systems

Abstract

With increasing demand to reduce system operation cost amidst growing adoption of virtualization technologies, multiple servers on a single physical chip is fast seeing typical usage in modern data centers. This trend has become more obvious with advances in system design that puts more and more multi-core CPUs into one system. As a result, it is interesting to investigate the challenges of virtualization on top of a multi-core system and the scalability of the consolidation workload on top of it.