SmartRelationship: a VM relationship detection framework for cloud management

Abstract

With the rapid development of Cloud computing technologies, a large number of Cloud management systems have emerged in recent years, such as Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus, CloudStack and OpenStack. To the best of our knowledge, all of these systems treat virtual machines (VMs) independent with each other and ignore the relationships between them. However, the relationship information between VMs can greatly impact the resource utilization, application performance and so on. Therefore, in this paper, we present SmartRelationship – a relationship detection framework for Cloud management. The framework detects the relationship between VMs in Cloud, which can be used to optimize Cloud management services such as VM dynamic placement, fault detection and security inspection.