Dynamic Packing with Side Constraints for Datacenter Resource Management
Résumé
Resource management in datacenters involves assigning virtual machines with changing resource demands to physical machines with changing capacities. Recurrently, the changes invalidate the assignment and the resource manager recomputes it at runtime. The assignment is also subject to changing restrictions expressing a variety of user requirements. The present chapter surveys this application of vector packing—called the VM reassignment problem—with an insight into its dynamic and heterogeneous nature. We advocate flexibility to answer these issues and present BtrPlace, a flexible and scalable heuristic solution based on Constraint Programming.