Abstract

On demand migration of tenants’ data is a critical technology for elastic load balancing in SaaS application. However, different tenants have different required resource with various SLA requirements. Moreover, previously reported migration techniques are not tenant aware. To study the elastic load balancing of tenants’ data, we mainly focus on the problem of when to migrate which tenants’ data in a muti-tenant shared DB server and build a new framework that aims to monitor load and minimize migration cost. We establish a demand resource estimation model to decide when to migration and then create a cost model to guide the choice of possible migration tenants. The simulation experimental results show the high effectiveness and the good efficiency of our model.

Keywords:

Demand resource estimation, elastic load balancing, migration, SaaS, SLA,

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