Modern offices are crowded with personal computers. While studies have shown these to be idle most of the time, they remain powered, consuming up to 60% of their peak power. Hardware based solutions engendered by PC vendors (e.g., low power states, Wake-on-LAN) have proven unsuccessful because, in spite of user inactivity, these machines often need to remain network active in support of background applications that maintain network presence. Recent solutions have been proposed that perform consolidation of idle desktop virtual machines. However, desktop VMs are often large requiring gigabytes of memory. Consolidating such VMs, creates large network transfers lasting in the order of minutes, and utilizes server memory inefficiently. When multiple VMs migrate simultaneously, each VM’s experienced migration latency grows, and this limits the use of VM consolidation to environments in which only a few daily migrations are expected per VM. This thesis introduces partial VM migration, an approach that transparently migrates only the working set of an idle VM, by migrating memory pages on-demand. It creates a partial replica of the desktop VM on the consolidation server by copying only VM metadata, and transferring pages to the server, as the VM accesses them. This approach places desktop PCs in low power state when inactive and resumes them to running state when pages are needed by the VM running on the consolidation server. Jettison, our software prototype of partial VM migration for off-the-shelf PCs, can deliver 78% to 91% energy savings during idle periods lasting more than an hour, while providing low migration latencies of about 4 seconds, and migrating minimal state that is under an order of magnitude of the VM’s memory footprint. In shorter idle periods of up to thirty minutes, Jettison delivers savings of 7% to 31%. We present two approaches that increase energy savings attained with partial VM migration, especially in short idle periods. The first, Context-Aware Selective Resume, expedites PC resume and suspend cycle times by supplying a context identifier at desktop resume, and initializing only devices and code that are relevant to the context. CAESAR, the Context-Aware Selective Resume framework, enables applications to register context vectors that are invoked when the desktop is resumed with matching context. CAESAR increases energy savings in short periods of five minutes to an hour by up to 66%. The second approach, the low power page cache, embeds network accessible low power hardware in the PC, to enable serving of pages to the consolidation server, while the PC is in low power state. We show that Oasis, our prototype page cache, addresses the shortcomings of energy-oriented on-demand page migration by increasing energy savings, especially during short idle periods. In periods of up to an hour, Oasis increases savings by up to twenty times.

Modern offices are crowded with personal computers. While studies have shown these to be idle most of the time, they remain powered, consuming up to 60% of their peak power. Hardware based solutions engendered by PC vendors (e.g., low power states, Wake-on-LAN) have proven unsuccessful because, in spite of user inactivity, these machines often need to remain network active in support of background applications that maintain network presence. Recent solutions have been proposed that perform consolidation of idle desktop virtual machines. However, desktop VMs are often large requiring gigabytes of memory. Consolidating such VMs, creates large network transfers lasting in the order of minutes, and utilizes server memory inefficiently. When multiple VMs migrate simultaneously, each VM’s experienced migration latency grows, and this limits the use of VM consolidation to environments in which only a few daily migrations are expected per VM. This thesis introduces partial VM migration, an approach that transparently migrates only the working set of an idle VM, by migrating memory pages on-demand. It creates a partial replica of the desktop VM on the consolidation server by copying only VM metadata, and transferring pages to the server, as the VM accesses them. This approach places desktop PCs in low power state when inactive and resumes them to running state when pages are needed by the VM running on the consolidation server. Jettison, our software prototype of partial VM migration for off-the-shelf PCs, can deliver 78% to 91% energy savings during idle periods lasting more than an hour, while providing low migration latencies of about 4 seconds, and migrating minimal state that is under an order of magnitude of the VM’s memory footprint. In shorter idle periods of up to thirty minutes, Jettison delivers savings of 7% to 31%. We present two approaches that increase energy savings attained with partial VM migration, especially in short idle periods. The first, Context-Aware Selective Resume, expedites PC resume and suspend cycle times by supplying a context identifier at desktop resume, and initializing only devices and code that are relevant to the context. CAESAR, the Context-Aware Selective Resume framework, enables applications to register context vectors that are invoked when the desktop is resumed with matching context. CAESAR increases energy savings in short periods of five minutes to an hour by up to 66%. The second approach, the low power page cache, embeds network accessible low power hardware in the PC, to enable serving of pages to the consolidation server, while the PC is in low power state. We show that Oasis, our prototype page cache, addresses the shortcomings of energy-oriented on-demand page migration by increasing energy savings, especially during short idle periods. In periods of up to an hour, Oasis increases savings by up to twenty times.

In these days the term virtualization is almost everywhere, especially in relation with server virtualization. One of the main goals is to describe the part of virtualization which is today not so known although it could have the same meaning for companies as the server virtualization had a few years ago. It is a desktop virtualization and this work includes not just a wide description of this but also related technologies such as data storage virtualization, application virtualization and cloud computing. Another goal is to hold desktop virtualization and find its benefits by placing into the area of small and medium businesses. Thesis is not focused only on the positives of using this technology but also on overall aspects of its use including related risks. Entire part of this thesis is business plan of the company that currently offers virtualization as a complex service for small and medium enterprises. Essential is not just a complete description of the fast growing area, but also concept the practical filling by the plan, which is in the acceptable form for potential investor.

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This diploma thesis describes possible solutions of IT infrastucture optimizing using new technologies, such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization and providing software as a service. It gives an analysis of the actual state of IT infrastucture in organization and drafts a suitable economical and system solution. It also describes individual areas of information technologies and their advantages. Finally, it focuses on selecting the most suitable technology with the assessment of its economic benefit for the company.

This thesis analyzes current status of software distribution in gaming industry and its biggest challenges. Thesis also includes insight in completely different approach to the software distribution -- Cloud Gaming. In practical part are thoroughly tested existing solutions and done functionality analysis. Practical part also includes experiment which regards to building own platform using currently existing tools and it is followed by discussion of results.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:31:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vitor Chaves de Oliveira.pdf: 1928054 bytes, checksum: 49bf6198a68438069d6ef8b9a2ec77e9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-10 / In recent years, virtualization computing has become a worldwide reality present in datacenters servers of most organizations. The motivations for the use of this solution are focused primarily on cost reduction and increases in availability, integrity and security of data. Based on these benefits, recently it was started the use of this technology for personal computers as well. That is, for desktops, giving birth to the so-called desktop virtualization. Given the technical advantages of the approach, its growth has been so significant that, before 2014, it is expected to be present in over 90% of organizations. However, this new method is completely based on a physical client-server architecture, which increases the importance of the communication network that makes this technique possible. Therefore, analyzing the network in order to investigate the effects according to the environment implemented, becomes crucial. In this work it s varied the local s client hardware and the application, i.e. the service used. The purpose was to detail their effects on computer networks in a Quality of Service (QoS) parameter, throughput. Secondarily are outlined perceptions regarding the Quality of Experience (QoE). / Nos ?ltimos anos, a virtualiza??o computacional se tornou uma realidade nos servidores presentes nos data-centers da maioria das organiza??es no mundo. As motiva??es para o emprego desta solu??o est?o centradas, primordialmente, na redu??o de custos e em aumentos na disponibilidade, na integridade e na seguran?a dos dados. Com base nestes benef?cios, recentemente, se come?ou a aproveitar esta tecnologia tamb?m para os computadores pessoais. Isto ?, para os desktops, dando origem a chamada virtualiza??o de desktop. Dadas as vantagen t?cnicas da abordagem, seu crescimento tem sido t?o expressivo que, antes de 2014, se espera que ela esteja presente em mais de 90% das organiza??es. Todavia, este m?todo ? totalmente baseado em uma arquitetura cliente-servidor f?sica, o que aumenta a import?ncia da rede de comunica??o que torna a t?cnica poss?vel. Logo, analisar a rede, a fim de investigar os impactos de acordo com o ambiente implementado, se torna fundamental. Neste trabalho variamos o hardware local do cliente e a aplica??o, isto ?, o servi?o utilizado. A finalidade foi a de detalhar seus efeitos, em redes de computadores, em um par?metro de Qualidade de Servi?o (QoS), a vaz?o. Secundariamente s?o esbo?adas percep??es de Qualidade da Experi?ncia (QoE).