OptiBook: Optimal resource booking for energy-efficient datacenters

Abstract

A lack of energy proportionality, low resource utilization, and interference in virtualized infrastructure make the cloud a challenging target environment for improving energy efficiency. In this paper we present OptiBook, a system that improves energy proportionality and/or resource utilization to optimize performance and energy efficiency. OptiBook shares servers between latency-sensitive services and batch jobs, overbooks the system in a controllable manner, uses vertical (CPU and DVFS) scaling for prioritized virtual machines, and applies performance isolation techniques such as CPU pinning and quota enforcement as well as online resource tuning to effectively improve energy efficiency. Our evaluations show that on average, OptiBook improves performance per watt by 20% and reduces energy consumption by 9% while minimizing SLO violations.