Abstract
Virtualization techniques are widely used in cloud computing environments today. Such environments are installed with a large number of similar virtual instances sharing the same physical infrastructure. In this paper, we focus on the memory usage optimization across virtual machines by automatically de-duplicating the memory on per-page basis. Our approach maintains a single copy of the duplicated pages in physical memory using copy-on-write mechanism. Unlike some existing strategies, which are intended only for applications and need user configuration, VMDedup provides an automatic memory de-duplication support within the hypervisor to achieve benefits across operating system code, data as well as application binaries. We have implemented a prototype of this system within the Xen hypervisor to support both para-virtualized and fully-virtualized instances of operating systems.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, IC2E 2014 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 379-384 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781479937660 |
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| State | Published - Sep 18 2014 |
| Event | 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, IC2E 2014 - Boston, United States Duration: Mar 10 2014 → Mar 14 2014 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, IC2E 2014 |
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Other
| Other | 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, IC2E 2014 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Boston |
| Period | 3/10/14 → 3/14/14 |
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VMDedup : Memory de-duplication in hypervisor. / Shaikh, Furquan; Yao, Fangzhou; Gupta, Indranil; Campbell, R H.
Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, IC2E 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 379-384 6903499 (Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, IC2E 2014).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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