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Automating performance and energy consumption analysis for cloud applications

conference contribution
posted on 2015-01-01, 00:00 authored by Feifei ChenFeifei Chen, John Grundy, Jean-Guy Schneider, Y Yang, Q He
In cloud environments, IT solutions are delivered to users via shared infrastructure, enabling cloud service providers to deploy applications as services according to user QoS (Quality of Service) requirements. One consequence of this cloud model is the huge amount of energy consumption and significant carbon footprints caused by large cloud infrastructures. A key and common objective of cloud service providers is thus to develop cloud application deployment and management solutions with minimum energy consumption while guaranteeing performance and other QoS specified in Service Level Agreements (SLAs). However, finding the best deployment configuration that maximises energy efficiency while guaranteeing system performance is an extremely challenging task, which requires the evaluation of system performance and energy consumption under various workloads and deployment configurations. In order to simplify this process we have developed Stress Cloud, an automatic performance and energy consumption analysis tool for cloud applications in real-world cloud environments. Stress Cloud supports the modelling of realistic cloud application workloads, the automatic generation of load tests, and the profiling of system performance and energy consumption. We demonstrate the utility of Stress Cloud by analysing the performance and energy consumption of a cloud application under a broad range of different deployment configurations.

History

Event

IEEE World Congress on Services ( 11th : 2015 : New York, N.Y.)

Pagination

63 - 70

Publisher

IEEE

Location

New York, N.Y.

Place of publication

Piscataway, N.J.

Start date

2015-06-27

End date

2015-07-02

ISBN-13

9781467372756

Language

eng

Publication classification

E Conference publication; E1.1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2015, IEEE

Editor/Contributor(s)

[Unknown]

Title of proceedings

IEEE SERVICES 2015 : Proceedings of the IEEE 2015 World Congress on Services