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Understanding performance of I/O intensive containerized applications for NVMe

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Janki Bhimani ; Jingpei Yang ; Zhengyu Yang ; Ningfang Mi ; Qiumin Xu ; Manu Awasthi ; Rajinikanth Pandurangan ; Vijay Balakrishnan All Authors 

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I. Introduction
Abstract:Our cloud-based IT world is founded on hyper-visors and containers. Containers are becoming an important
II. Related Work cornerstone, which is increasingly used day-by-day. Among differe... View more
III. Hardware Architecture
and Application Layout
 Metadata
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IV. Experimental Results Our cloud-based IT world is founded on hyper-visors and containers. Containers are becoming an important
cornerstone, which is increasingly used day-by-day. Among different available frameworks, docker has become one of
V. Design Implications
the major adoptees to use containerized platform in data centers and enterprise servers, due to its ease of deploying
Show Full Outline  and scaling. Further more, the performance benefits of a lightweight container platform can be leveraged even more
with a fast back-end storage like high performance SSDs. However, increase in number of simultaneously operating
Authors docker containers may not guarantee an aggregated performance improvement due to saturation. Thus, understanding
performance bottleneck in a multi-tenancy docker environment is critically important to maintain application level
Figures fairness and perform better resource management. In this paper, we characterize the performance of persistent storage
option (through data volume) for I/O intensive, dockerized applications. Our work investigates the impact on
References performance with increasing number of simultaneous docker containers in different workload environments. We provide,
first of its kind study of I/O intensive containerized applications operating with NVMe SSDs. We show that 1) a six times
Citations better application throughput can be obtained, just by wise selection of number of containerized instances compared to
single instance; and 2) for multiple application containers running simultaneously, an application throughput may
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Keywords degrade upto 50% compared to a stand-alone applications throughput, if good choice of application and workload is not
made. We then propose novel design guidelines for an optimal and fair operation of both homogeneous and
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heterogeneous environments mixed with different applications and workloads.

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Published in: 2016 IEEE 35th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC)

Date of Conference: 09-11 December 2016 DOI: 10.1109/PCCC.2016.7820650

Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 19 January 2017 Publisher: IEEE

 ISBN Information: Conference Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA

Electronic ISSN: 2374-9628

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I. Introduction
Docker containers are gaining more users due to their simple and efficient operation characters [1].
Container technology is projected to be the backbone on which software development cycle can be
shortened [2]–[4]. Containers and virtual machines have similar resource isolation and allocation
benefits but different architectural approaches,
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containers to be more portable and
efficient compared to bare metal and virtual machines [5]–[6]. Containers are also proposed as a
solution to alleviate dependency issues. Among different container technologies (e.g., docker, LxC,
runC), docker has become one of the major adoptees for its ease of deploying and scaling.

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