Policy-based dynamic resource allocation for virtual machines on Xen-enabled virtualization environment

This paper describes policy-based dynamic resource allocation for virtual machines on Xen-enabled virtualization environment. Though virtualization technology provides better utilization of server resources, it adds much more management complexities such as monitoring and reallocating resources constantly for each domain. Resources consumed by domains may differ subject to the services provided by domains. And dynamic allocation of resources for domains might be time-consuming task. It becomes more complicated when the number of the monitored domains or services provided by domains increases significantly. Our work proposes a policy-based dynamic resource allocation among multiple domains running on Xen hypervisor with multi-agent framework.