Poster abstract: Parallel VM placement with provable guarantees

Efficient on-demand deployment of VMs is at the core of cloud infrastructure but the existing resource management approaches are too slow to fulfill this promise. Parallel resource management is a promising direction for boosting performance, but when applied naïvely, it significantly increases the communication overhead and the decline ratio of deployment attempts. We propose a new dynamic and randomized algorithm, APSR, for parallel assignment of VMs to hosts in a cloud environment. APSR is guaranteed to satisfy an SLA containing decline ratio constraints, and communication overheads constraints. Furthermore, via extensive simulations, we show that APSR obtains a higher throughput than other commonly employed policies (including those used in OpenStack) while achieving a reduction of up to 13x in decline ratio and a reduction of over 85% in communication overheads.