A thermal-aware VM consolidation mechanism with outage avoidance

Efficient energy and temperature management techniques are essential elements for operators of cloud data centers. Dynamic virtual machine (VM) consolidation using live migration techniques presents a great opportunity for cloud service providers to adaptively reduce energy consumption and optimize their resource utilization. In recent studies, power consumption readings of individual physical hosts were chosen as the main monitoring parameters in their allocation policies, whereas very few have considered host temperature, which has shown to have a negative impact on server reliability, as a migration criterion. In this work, a thermal-aware VM consolidation mechanism is proposed for resource allocation optimization and server reliability assurance. We consider the variability in host temperature as a migration criterion to avoid outage incidents via having better VM consolidations. Extensive simulation results obtained from CloudSim show the promising performance of the proposed mechanism in energy saving while reducing the number of server outage incidents due to fluctuations in host temperature.     

基于PDM的数字化产品虚拟制造系统研究

分析了PDM(Product Data Management,PDM)技术与虚拟制造技术(Virtual Manufacture,VM)的特点及重要性,将产品数据管理技术与虚拟制造技术有机地集成,为新产品开发提供一套更加有效的工具.随着科学技术的发展,数字化产品设计成了产品设计的主流.基于数字化设计制造的思想,将所有产品数据与虚拟制造技术相结合,搭建了PDMVMS(Virtual Manuflacture Svstem based on Product Data Management,PDMVMS)平台,研究了其主要的建模技术与关键问题.     

基于分片的云虚拟机安全保护技术

在典型的IaaS云中,用户使用云服务需要通过虚拟机实现。最近有研究表明,在大多数常用的加密协议(如SSL/TLS等)中,至关重要的加密密钥,可能被攻击者通过跨虚拟机的旁路攻击截获。针对这种攻击方式,提出了一种云虚拟机密钥保护系统,通过将加密密钥随机分割为多个分片,并将每个分片存储于不同的虚拟机中,能有效保护云中的加密密钥,抵御各类跨虚拟机的旁路攻击。此外,云虚拟机密钥保护系统会周期性地对加密密钥进行重新分割,即便攻击者能够截获局部的加密密钥,也无法进行还原。将云虚拟机密钥保护系统作为一种对应用软件透明的扩展库,运行在亚马逊EC2云的web服务器,取得了较好的成果。     

Dynamic memory paravirtualization transparent to guest OS

This paper introduces dynamic paravirtualization, which imitates paravirtualization and aims at reducing VM exits of full virtualization with hardware support. In dynamic paravirtualization, VMM (virtual machine monitor) dynamically monitors and replaces the hot instructions, which cause most VM exits. It is transparent to the guest OS such that the legacy OSes can benefit from this optimization. Our study focuses on reducing the overhead of memory virtualization—dynamic memory paravirtualization (DMP). We ...     

Testing butt joints in pipes made of VM12-SHC martensitic steel

VM12-SHC steel is the newest grade of 12% Cr steel developed by the V&M company. At the present moment, there are works being conducted in order to make use of this steel in steam superheaters. It is also planned to implement VM12-SHC steel to the fabrication of water-walls for prototype boilers operated at very high temperature and pressure parameters. In this article, test materials and welding consumbables are characterized and the process of preparation of pipes to be welded is discussed. The results of metallographic examination and mechanical testing of the test joints are presented.     

谈谈IXIA虚拟化测试解决方案如何能帮助“化云为雨”

探讨了云计算在世界以及中国发展的趋势,介绍了在企业里部署云计算所面临的挑战。重点讲述了IXIA作为在IP测试行业有着丰富经验的公司如何利用自己的解决方案通过测试来帮助推动云在企业的落地应用。     

电视中心系统测试实践

结合本台硬盘播控系统实际,阐述了模拟向数字过渡时期电视中心系统验收测试的方法,并对测试中的几点体会进行了介绍,最后还阐述了深入使用VM700T的一些方法。     

基于运动轨迹分析的启发式木马检测系统

针对主动防御技术检测准确率不高的问题,提出了一种基于运动轨迹分析的启发式木马检测系统。提出了两种典型的木马运动轨迹,利用运动轨迹上的行为数据,结合判定规则与算法,实现对可疑文件危险等级的检测。实验结果表明,该系统检测未知木马性能优于传统方法,并且能够检测一些特殊木马。     

Virtual machine selection and placement for dynamic consolidation in Cloud computing environment

Dynamic consolidation of virtual machines (VMs) in a data center is an effective way to reduce the energy consumption and improve physical resource utilization. Determining which VMs should be migrated from an overloaded host directly influences the VM migration time and increases energy consumption for the whole data center, and can cause the service level of agreement (SLA), delivered by providers and users, to be violated. So when designing a VM selection policy, we not only consider CPU utilization, but also define a variable that represents the degree of resource satisfaction to select the VMs. In addition, we propose a novel VM placement policy that prefers placing a migratable VM on a host that has the minimum correlation coefficient. The bigger correlation coefficient a host has, the greater the influence will be on VMs located on that host after the migration. Using CloudSim, we run simulations whose results let draw us to conclude that the policies we propose in this paper perform better than existing policies in terms of energy consumption, VM migration time, and SLA violation percentage.     

云计算环境下软硬件节能和负载均衡策略

针对云计算服务环境下软硬件节能和负载均衡优化问题,提出一种自适应的云计算环境下虚拟机(VM)动态迁移软节能策略。该策略采用常用的硬件能耗感知技术——动态电压频率调节(DVFS)来实现分段优化的系统部件静态节能,又通过VM在线迁移技术实现云平台的动态自适应软件节能。在CloudSim云仿真平台下对比实现DVFS静态节能和自适应负载均衡的软节能策略,经PlanetLab云平台监测数据验证,结果表明：软硬结合的自适应能耗感知策略能够高效节能96%; DVFS+MAD_MMT节能策略(采用平均绝对偏差算法判定主机是否超载,基于最短迁移时间(MMT)原则选择VM移出)