Director Framework

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Director Framework

• framework for automatic management of a
  datacenter
• deploy applications
• add/remove resources
• Director
• mechanism for executing datacenter commands
• Advisors
• intelligence behind datacenter management

Peter Bodik
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Performance Management

• Goal resource management of a web app
• knob number of servers
• minimize cost of renting VMs and SLA penalties
• handle changes in workload mix, application,
  failures,
• Approach
• estimate workload and performance models
• use control theory and reinforcement learning to
  find optimal policy

Peter Bodik
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HiLighter Robust Signatures of Performance
Anomalies

• Goal create a compact representation of web
  application state
• useful for anomaly identification and root cause
  analysis
• HiLighter
• builds on previous signature project
• more robust signatures
• evaluated on 10 performance anomalies in MS
  production app

Peter Bodik