Service Level and Performance Aware Dynamic Resource Allocation in Overbooked Data Centers

Many cloud computing providers use overbooking to increase their low utilization ratios. This however increases the risk of performance degradation due to interference among co-located VMs. To address this problem we present a service level and performance aware controller that: (1) provides performance isolation for high QoS VMs, and (2) reduces the VM interference between low QoS VMs by dynamically mapping virtual cores to physical cores, thus limiting the amount of resources that each VM can access depending on their performance. Our evaluation based on real cloud applications and both stress, synthetic and realistic workloads demonstrates that a more efficient use of the resources is achieved, dynamically allocating the available capacity to the applications that need it more, which in turn lead to a more stable and predictable performance over time.