Automated and on-demand provisioning of virtual machines for database applications

Utility computing delivers compute and storage resources to applications as an `on-demand utility', much like electricity, from a distributed collection of computing resources. There is great interest in running database applications on utility resources (e.g., Oracle's Grid initiative) due to reduced infrastructure and management costs, higher resource utilization, and the ability to handle sudden load surges. Virtual Machine (VM) technology offers powerful mechanisms to manage a utility resource infrastructure. However, provisioning VMs for applications to meet system performance goals, e.g., to meet service level agreements (SLAs), is an open problem. We are building two systems at Duke-Shirako and NIMO--that collectively address this problem. Shirako is a toolkit for leasing VMs to an application from a utility resource infrastructure. NIMO learns application performance models using novel techniques based on active learning, and uses these models to guide VM provisionin...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SIGMOD
• Authors: Piyush Shivam, Azbayar Demberel, Pradeep Gunda, David E. Irwin, Laura E. Grit, Aydan R. Yumerefendi, Shivnath Babu, Jeffrey S. Chase
• Keywords: Database, NIMO Learns Application, NIMO Learns Performance, SIGMOD 2007, Utility Resource Infrastructure