Performance and Power Management for Cloud Infrastructures

A key issue for Cloud Computing data-centers is to maximize their profits by minimizing power consumption and SLA violations of hosted applications. In this paper, we propose a resource management framework combining a utility-based dynamic Virtual Machine provisioning manager and a dynamic VM placement manager. Both problems are modeled as constraint satisfaction problems. The VM provisioning process aims at maximizing a global utility capturing both the performance of the hosted applications with regard to their SLAs and the energy-related operational cost of the cloud computing infrastructure. We show several experiments how our system can be controlled through high level handles to make different trade-off between application performance and energy consumption or to arbitrate resource allocations in case of contention.