Hotplug or ballooning : a comparative study on dynamic memory management techniques for virtual machines

• Main Authors: Liu, Haikun, Jin, Hai, Liao, Xiaofei, Deng, Wei, He, Bingsheng, Xu, Cheng-Zhong
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104210; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19436
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In virtualization environments, static memory allocation for virtual machines (VMs) can lead to severe service level agreement (SLA) violations or inefficient use of memory. Dynamic memory allocation mechanisms such as ballooning and memory hotplug were proposed to handle the dynamics of memory dema...