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Memory resource management in VMware ESX server
Abstract
VMware ESX Server is a thin software layer designed to multiplex hardware resources efficiently among virtual machines running unmodified commodity operating systems. This paper introduces several novel ESX Server mechanisms and policies for managing memory. A ballooning technique reclaims the pages considered least valuable by the operating system running in a virtual machine. An idle memory tax achieves efficient memory utilization while maintaining performance isolation guarantees. Content-based page sharing and hot I/O page remapping exploit transparent page remapping to eliminate redundancy and reduce copying overheads. These techniques are combined to efficiently support virtual machine workloads that overcommit memory.
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- Authors
- Waldspurger, C. A.
- Venue
- ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
- Published
- 2002-12-31
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- SI
- Pages
- 181-194
- ISSN
- 0163-5980 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2121542813
- Cited by
- 1,205
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 56.85
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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