PhoenixCloud: Provisioning Resources for Heterogeneous Cloud Workloads

Abstract: As more and more service providers choose Cloud platforms, a resource provider needs to provision resources and supporting runtime environments (REs) for heterogeneous workloads in different scenarios. Previous work fails to resolve this issue in several ways: (1) it fails to pay attention to diverse RE requirements, and does not enable creating coordinated REs on demand; (2) few work investigates coordinated resource provisioning for heterogeneous workloads. In this paper, our contributions are three-fold: (1) we present an RE agreement that expresses diverse RE requirements, and build an innovative system PhoenixCloud that enables a resource provider to create REs on demand according to RE agreements; (2) we propose two coordinated resource provisioning solutions for heterogeneous workloads in two typical Cloud scenarios: first, a large organization operates a private Cloud for two heterogeneous workloads; second, a large organization or two service providers running heterogeneous workloads revert to a public Cloud; and (3) A comprehensive evaluation has been performed in experiments. For typical workload traces of parallel batch jobs and Web services, our experiments show that: a) In the first Cloud scenario, when the throughput is almost same like that of a dedicated cluster system, our solution decreases the configuration size of cluster by about 40%; b) in the second scenario, our solution decreases not only the total resource consumption, but also the peak resource consumption maximally to 31% with respect to that of EC2 + RightScale solution.