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1 3-D Cloud Monitoring: Enabling Effective Cloud Infrastructure and Application Management Clarissa Cassales Marquezan, Dario Bruneo, Francesco Longo, Florian Wessling, Andreas Metzger, Antonio Puliafito Paluno, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany {clarissa.marquezan, florian.wessling,. Dipartimento di Ingegneria DICIEAMA, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italia Abstract A cloud environment is a complex environment composed of many different entities and layers. Each of these cloud entities may be furnished with mechanisms offering various management actions. For any given situation, different management actions may be applicable and often simultaneously. Enforcing isolated management actions or combining contradictory management actions may negatively affect cloud application quality and cloud infrastructure performance. This means that correctly selecting and effectively combining these management actions for a given situation becomes an important challenge in cloud computing. In this paper, we address the problem of identifying situations where more than one management action can be performed. The key contributions of our paper are: (1) a three dimensional (3-D) monitoring model for analyzing cloud monitoring information; (2) the concept and formalization of Context of Interest (CoI) that specifies how to retrieve meaningful information from the 3-D model to support the coordination of management actions between cloud infrastructure and application. We conducted experiments in a real testbed using Openstack and the WordPress Web site application. Our results show that analyzing cloud monitoring information using the 3-D model and the CoI can support a more effective identification of management actions to be taken. I. INTRODUCTION Appropriate cloud management is essential. Popular management actions to handle dynamic changes inside the cloud environment are: migration and elasticity of virtual resources [1][2][3][4], multi-cloud resource management [5][6], load balancing [7], and infrastructure resource management [8]. However, a cloud environment is complex and composed of many different entities and layers [9]. These entities include, to name a few, physical resources, virtual resources deployed on top of physical resources, Web application servers deployed inside virtual machines, as well as software code running inside a Web application server. These entities typically offer dedicated management actions that can be used to enable dynamic adaptation at runtime. As a consequence, various management actions can be applied simultaneously and this might negatively affect both cloud application quality of service and cloud infrastructure performance [9]. Thus, the decision on which management action(s) are appropriate for a given situation depends on monitoring and analysis support able to consider the complex dependencies between cloud entities and their management mechanisms. Few solutions in cloud monitoring consider the collection of information from different layers [1]. Other works focus on building the support for collecting information from the cloud environment [11] or automating the configuration of the monitoring solutions, such as Chef and Puppet frameworks. However, these solutions do not provide a way to analyze this data in order to identify multiple management actions for a given situation. In addition, current management solutions for cloud applications [3][4] and cloud infrastructures [12][13] are still limited in analyzing the information and adaptation options from the different layers of cloud environment. In this paper, we address the problem of identifying situations where various management actions can be performed. Instead of looking at the cloud monitoring information as isolated streams of data, we propose to analyze this information as a three-dimensional data space. Inside this space there are combinations of points that indicate situations in which one or more management actions could be applied in different layers of the cloud. We assume that the Monitoring as a Service model is used by all the stakeholders of a cloud environment that are willing to coordinate their management actions. This allows information to be collected from the different layers of the cloud environment. The key contributions of our paper are: (1) a three dimensional (3-D) monitoring model for analyzing cloud monitoring information as volumes; and (2) the formalization of Context of Interest (CoI) that specifies how to retrieve meaningful information from the 3- D monitoring model to support coordinated infrastructure and application management actions and handle dynamic changes in the cloud environment. We applied our formulation to a testbed using Openstack and the WordPress application. Experiments conducted in the testbed show that with the 3- D monitoring model and Contexts of Interest it is possible to identify multiple management actions and support a more efficient decision-making on which action should be taken. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section II describes the related work. Section III presents the background on cloud layers and introduces the 3-D monitoring model. The Context of Interest is formalized in Section IV. Section V describes the experiments. Finally, Section VI contains the conclusions and future work. ISBN , 1th CNSM and Workshop 214 IFIP 55 CNSM Full Paper
2 II. RELATED WORK In this section, we discuss two classes of related work. First, the ones devoted to cloud monitoring. Second, we analyze which kind of monitoring information is currently used for performing management actions in cloud environments. Montes et al. [1] introduced the idea of levels of monitoring in a cloud environment. They defined the monitoring in the virtual system level (composed by the sub-levels application, platform, and infrastructure) and the physical system level. The focus of this work is the collection of the monitoring information and not how the information is processed and associated with different layers of monitoring to be correlated. Popular tools such as Chef and Puppet are indeed frameworks for the automatic configuration of infrastructures. They also provide support for the most common available resource usage visualization tools. Puppet provides some more functionalities for inspection of events grouped together. However, the combination of more sophisticated information in a cloud environment is still a task to be done by human administrators. In addition, monitoring tools and APIs are also available on cloud commercial and open source solutions such as Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services, Ceilometer, Ganglia, Nagios, and Zabbix. The Google App Engine provides support for monitoring a fixed set of performance metrics. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provide a set of tools and APIs for the developers, such as AWS OpsWorks, CloudWatch, and EC2. CloudWatch provides a large set of metrics and possibilities for the configuration of new metrics and it also allows to capture some metrics associated with EC2 (related to auto scaling). Ceilometer provides all basic information about the OpenStack components, such as Nova-Compute, Swift, Cinder, etc. It provides support for the generation of events. The traditional monitoring frameworks such as Ganglia, Nagios, and Zabbix also support extensions for monitoring the cloud environment. However, the aforementioned solutions do not provide the sophisticated logic for relating monitoring information since their purpose is the collection of monitoring information and handling event notifications. Leitner et al. [14] introduce a framework where application developers can define which application metrics should be monitored. The framework collect the desired application information from single hosts (i.e., single s), pools of hosts (i.e., pools of s) and correlate this information. In their case, correlation means filtering and aggregating data to reduce the flood of information. No analysis specifically target to activating management actions is proposed in this work. Differently from this work, for us, set of pieces of monitored information are modeled to indicate one or more management actions in one or more layers of the cloud environment. Miglierina et al. [6] and Dutta et al. [3] both proposed solutions for auto-scaling cloud applications. Their solutions consider monitored information about the architecture of the application in addition to the ones from the cloud virtualization layer. He et al. [4] provide a framework for the deployment, migration, and elasticity of applications based on Elastic Application Containers. The monitored information used by the them is related to physical and virtual machines, such as CPU, I/O operations, and network traffic. In contrast to these approaches, we focus on using different sources of monitoring information not only for auto-scaling but also for triggering different types of management mechanisms inside a cloud environment. In addition to the work on the adaptation of cloud applications, there is a large amount of research related to management of cloud infrastructures. Fischer et al. [8] present a large survey about solutions for embedding virtual resources into physical infrastructures. The main information taken into account are IaaS measurements, such as network usage, CPU, and memory. Recent works proposed by Wuhib et al. [12] and Esteves et al. [13] also take into account the structure of the application as part of the problem formulation of cloud resource management. However, no other application information is considered for taking the management decisions for allocating the resources. As discussed above, there is still a gap when it comes to better combining and analyzing the information from the cloud environment in order to enable a more coordinated execution of management actions in a cloud environment. The advances in monitoring information collection and more sophisticated management solutions for cloud management discussed in this section serve as basis for the next step proposed in this paper. III. NEW APPROACH FOR CLOUD MONITORING For adaptations to take place, it is first necessary to monitor the information that is relevant to detect a situation in which changes are required, i.e., management actions should be activated. In a previous work [9], we defined the layers and entities inside the cloud environment that can initiate or suffer adaptation actions, and the influences that adaptation actions can cause among the various entities of the cloud environment. In this paper, we focus on defining the necessary monitoring model and initial support to enable the identification of situations inside the cloud environment that can lead to activation of distinct management actions in different entities of the cloud layers. The long term goal of our research is to automatically analyze the monitored situations and their multiple management actions, aiming at enabling a better coordination of these actions to reduce their influences in the entities of cloud environment. In this section, we focus on the presentation of the reference cloud scenario and its layers. Then, we propose a high level three dimensional cloud monitoring data model, called 3-D monitoring model. The purpose of this model is to support the identification of monitoring information inside the cloud environment that will reveal situations leading to multiple and eventually conflicting management actions. A. Cloud Layers Fig. 1 depicts a simplified version of the four layers and entities composing our reference model of a cloud environment [9]. The Physical Layer (PL) is in the base of Fig. 1. 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3 physical resources. The Virtualization Layer (VL) is composed of virtual resources and the respective management support. The Application Architecture Layer (AAL) encloses the set of entities, such as servers and software components, necessary to support the architecture of an application. For example, in the case of Web applications, the components associated with this layer are Web Servers and Database servers. Examples of monitoring metrics in this layer are: number of transactions per second and response time of the server requests. Finally, the Application Business Logic Layer (ABLL) involves the entities directly related to the application business logic implementation. In the case of an Web application, an example of monitoring information in this layer is the response time of method associated with the purchase order. Monitoring Bus Fig. 1. DB App 1 AS DB App 2 AS AS LB Application Business Logic Layer Application Architecture Layer Virtualization Layer Physical Layer Cloud layers, entities, and relationships. As illustrated in Fig. 1, the different entities populating the cloud layers are related to each other. For instance, each Physical Machine () can host multiple Virtual Machines (s). Each of these s can run different servers, e.g., Web servers, database servers, application servers that host components of the application. For instance, a server like Apache Tomcat is able to host different servlets, which are entities of the Application Business Logic Layer. In order to make the cloud infrastructure ready for identification and later coordination of the multiple management actions, the entities in the layers and their relationships need to be accurately monitored. For instance, the approach proposed by Montes et al. [1] already foresees a mechanism for data collection such as the one represented in Fig. 1. However, just the collection of data is not enough. It is still necessary the definition of a monitoring model that can lead to a successful data analysis and easy runtime detection of situations where multiple management actions could be applied. The next section introduces such a monitoring model. B. 3-D Cloud Monitoring Model We propose using three dimensions to define a cloud monitoring model able to support an elaborated analysis of the measured information. This model is based on the following assumptions: We consider that for any type of applications executing inside the cloud environment there will be entities and relationships in different layers of this environment that can change and affect each other, independently of who is selling or buying cloud services. These entities can be monitored and their measurements can be correlated. We assume the existence of mappings among the entities across layers, as illustrated in Fig. 1. This means that virtual entities are mapped to physical ones, application architecture entities are mapped to virtual ones, and application business logic entities are mapped to application architecture ones. OpenStack, for example, has support for mapping the physical and virtual entities, but the mapping for the other layers is not supported yet. There must always exist one application associated with the entities in the Application Architecture, Virtualization, and Physical layers. It is out of the scope of this paper to discuss which stakeholder in the cloud environment would be responsible for keeping this information. We assume that the information is available and is delivered using a Monitoring as a Service model. Based on the above assumptions, we propose that a specific metric within the space of the collected data can be identified by three different characteristics: (1) the on top of which the metric was collected, (2) the application to which the metric is related; and (3) the kind of metric and its corresponding cloud layer. These characteristics can be expressed as coordinates in a 3-dimensional representation of data collection space in a cloud environment, thus leading to the proposed 3-D monitoring model as depicted in Fig. 2. Cloud Environment Monitoring Volume Applications PL VL AAL ABLL Cloud Metrics Application Architecture Monitoring Volume Physical Machines Fig. 2. Example of 3-D monitoring volume for the data collected in a Cloud Environment for the Application Architecture Layer. ISBN , 1th CNSM and Workshop 214 IFIP 57 CNSM Full Paper
4 Applications app i Fig. 3. PL VL AAL ABLL Cloud Metrics pm j pm j Monitoring Slice app i Monitoring Slice Physical Machines Monitoring slices in the 3-D monitoring model. The transparent volume with dotted lines illustrated in Fig. 2 represents the entire space of data that can be monitored in a cloud environment, and we named it: Cloud Environment Monitoring Volume (or monitoring volume). The monitoring volume can be sub-divided and reduced into monitoring subvolumes. For instance, Fig. 2 shows the Application Architecture Monitoring Volume which is a sub-volume with monitoring metrics from the Application Architecture Layer related to all applications deployed in the cloud environment under consideration. In fact, the space of the collected metrics can be cut through with the use of planes to identify subsets of the space that are of interest for a given situation. For example, Fig. 3 shows the monitoring slices obtained by cutting the space through a couple of planes. The application app i monitoring slice groups all the metrics in all of the layers that are collected for application app i, on top of all the s that host virtual resources associated with app i. On the other hand, the pm j monitoring slice involves all the metrics in all the layers that are related to pm j. The intersection of the two slices (highlighted in red) represents the set of the metrics in the different cloud layers that are related to application app i and measured in pm j. We use the intersection among monitoring slices from different planes to detect situations that will eventually lead to the activation of multiple management actions throughout the different cloud entities. However, not all the monitoring data in an intersection is relevant for the identification of these situations. Therefore, in the next section, we introduce the concept of Context of Interest (CoI), a formalization that allows dealing with the complexity of the monitoring volumes, slices, and intersections. IV. CONTEXT OF INTEREST A Context of Interest (CoI) is the simultaneous observation of metrics in the intersection of monitoring slices that are relevant for taking management actions in different layers of the cloud environment in response to dynamic changes inside such an environment. The Context of Interest necessarily implies that for the observed information a distinct and maybe conflicting set of cloud management actions could be triggered. Thus, the definition and identification of CoIs enable the mapping of different management actions in different layers of the cloud environment. The CoI concept builds upon a sequence of definitions and characterizes the 3-D monitoring scope and the monitoring slices, defining which cuts on the monitoring slices are relevant to determine monitoring information that characterize situations leading to multiple management actions. This concept does not determine how information is collected in the cloud environment. It rather establishes how such information will be analyzed. In the following section, we provide a mathematical formulation of the Context of Interest concept in order to enable the automatic analysis of the collected monitoring information. A. Formalization Definition 1 (Application) An application is a set of components (e.g., systems, sub-systems) and it has necessarily a unique identifier in the cloud environment (app i ). The components of the application might be mapped to different s along the cloud infrastructure. However, they will be associated with the same application identifier. Definition 2 (Application Set) The application set A refers to the set of all apps deployed inside the cloud environment. A = {app i } where 1 i I and I is the total number of applications deployed in the cloud environment. Definition 3 (Physical Machine Set) The physical machine set P refers to the set of all s in the cloud environment. P = {pm j } where 1 j J and J is the total number of s in the cloud environment. Definition 4 (Physical Layer Metric Set) The physical layer metric set M PL refers to the set of all physical metrics in the cloud environment. M PL = {plm p } where 1 p P and P is the total number of physical layer metrics measured. Definition 5 (Virtualization Layer Metric Set) The virtualization layer metric set M V L refers to the set of all virtualization metrics in the cloud environment. M V L = {vlm q } where 1 q Q and Q is the total number of virtualization layer metrics that can be measured. Definition 6 (Application Architecture Layer Metric Set) The application architecture layer metric set M AAL refers to the set of all metrics related to the application architecture layer in the cloud environment. M AAL = {aalm r } where 1 r R and R is the total number of application architecture layer metrics that can be measured. Definition 7 (Application Business Logic Layer Metric Set) The application business logic layer metric set M ABLL refers to the set of all metrics related to application business logic layer in the cloud environment. M ABLL = {abllm s } where 1 s S and S is the total number of application business logic layer metrics that can be measured. ISBN , 1th CNSM and Workshop 214 IFIP 58 CNSM Full Paper
5 Definition 8 (Set of Metrics) The set of all metrics M is composed by all the metrics that can be measured in the cloud environment. M = {m k } where m k (M PL M V L M AAL M ABLL ), 1 k K, and K = P + Q + R + S. Definition 9 (Cloud Monitoring Volume) The cloud monitoring volume V = {(app i, pm j,m k )} (with V = A P M ) is the Cartesian product of sets A, P, and M indicating the space of information that can be collected in a cloud environment. Fig. 2 graphically depicts V, also highlighting the subset corresponding to the Application Architecture Layer. Let us consider a function f : V T R {null} where T R + is the set of time instants. Then, f (i, j, k, t) is the value associated with the metric m k related to the components of application app i deployed in the pm j, measured at time instant t. If the application app i does not have any component actually deployed in pm j or the measure m k does not apply to the specific application, the null value is returned. Definition 1 (Application Monitoring Slice) An application monitoring slice S A is a plane {(app, pm j,m k )} in the cloud monitoring volume V obtained by considering all the points in the volume associated to a specific app A. Definition 11 (Physical Machine Monitoring Slice) A physical machine monitoring slice S is a plane {(app i, pm,m k )} in the cloud monitoring volume V obtained by considering all the points in the volume associated to a specific pm P. Fig. 3 graphically depicts two monitoring slices. The intersection between the application monitoring slice associated to app i and the physical machine monitoring slice associated to pm j is represented by a dashed line. Definition 12 (Observing Data Set) An observing data set O over a subset of metrics M o M is a subset {(app, pm,m o )} (with m o M o ) of the monitoring volume V obtained by properly selecting the points in the intersection between a physical machine monitoring slice S (associated to a physical machine pm) and an application monitoring slice S A (associated to an application app) that correspond to metrics in M o. From a practical point of view, an observing data set can be used to select a certain number of metrics of interest for the components of a specific application deployed on a certain. In Fig. 3, an example of an observing data set is highlighted in red. Definition 13 (Application Cut Set) An application cut set C A is a set of application monitoring slices (with 1 C A A ). Definition 14 (Physical Machine Cut Set) A physical machine cut set C is a set of physical machine monitoring slices (with 1 C P ). Definition 15 (Application Context of Interest) An application context of interest CoI A is a set of observing data sets {O z } obtained from the intersection between the application monitoring slice S A related to application app and a physical machine cut set C, with 1 z C satisfying the following constraints: c = (app, pm,m ), c = (app, pm,m ) CoI A : c O z,c O z, z z OR layer(m ) layer(m ) where the function layer returns the metric set corresponding to a metric m. The constraints guarantee that there will exist at least 2 metrics associated with the same application that belong either to different s or layers of the cloud environment. This is necessary to characterize situations where management actions for the same application can be coordinated. Being these actions either in entities hosted in different physical machines or in different layers of the cloud environment but all associated with the same application. Definition 16 (Physical Machine Context of Interest) A physical machine context of interest CoI is a set of observing data sets {O z } obtained from the intersection between the physical machine monitoring slice S related to the physical machine pm and an application cut set C A, with 1 z C A satisfying the following constraints: c = (app, pm,m ), c = (app, pm,m ) CoI : c O z,c O z, z z OR layer(m ) layer(m ). The constraints, in this case, guarantee that there will exist at least 2 metrics associated with the same that belong either to different applications or layers of the cloud environment. The objective of these constraints is to characterize situations to coordinate management actions inside the same physical machine that affect either different applications or entities in different layers of the cloud for the specific physical machine. Definition 17 (Context of Interest) A context of interest CoI is either an application context of interest or a physical machine context of interest. Multiple CoIs can be defined for the same cloud monitoring volume. In addition, the same type of metric can appear in one or more CoIs. In a cloud environment, the main role played by distinct CoIs is to support the detecting of specific situations leading to multiple management actions. In the next section, we use the WordPress application to provide concrete examples of how CoIs and management actions are related to each other. B. Context of Interest and Management Actions The goal of using the CoIs is to define the set of metrics that expose situations in which multiple management actions would be applicable, but not all of them should be actually enforced. 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6 TABLE I EXAMPLE OF A CoI FOR THE WORDPRESS APPLICATION. Layer Tuple Description M PL (app 1, pm 2, plm cpu) Physical CPU Usage M PL (app 1, pm 2, plm mem) Physical Memory Usage M V L (app 1, pm 2,vlm cpu) Virtual CPU Usage M V L (app 1, pm 2,vlm mem) Virtual Memory Usage M AAL (app 1, pm 2,aalm mysql conn) MySQL Num. of Connections M AAL (app 1, pm 2,aalm wb pages) Apache Pages per Second M ABLL (app 1, pm 2,abllm wb perrors) WordPress Pages Errors M ABLL (app 1, pm 2,abllm response) WordPress Response Time be used for the WordPress application in a cloud environment. WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System) for personal blogs and Web sites. It allows a simple creation of posts and pages together with a simple comment management. The WordPress system architecture is composed of the Apache2 Web server, the MySQL DBMS, the Memchached tool, and the code implementing the functionalities of the CMS itself. Different cloud deployment configurations can be used for this application. We assume the simplest deployment alternative where all components of the WordPress application are deployed inside the same. Using the model proposed in [9], we first identify the possible changes that can be suffered by the entities in the cloud environment hosting this specific deployment of the WordPress Application (as illustrated in Fig 5): (1) increase virtual resources; (2) request a new and move some components of the application to the new ; (3) change the Apache Web server configuration; (4) change the MySQL DBMS configuration. The above listed management actions can be activated independently of each other and eventually simultaneously if no mechanism is used to coordinate their activation. In this WordPress example, suppose we want to identify the management actions to be taken before appealing to auto-scaling, which typically implies some kind of cost either in monetary or availability terms. Then, we define a CoI for this application as illustrated in Table I. The CoI in this table is the physical machine CoI for the machine depicted in Fig. 5. The goal of this example is to identify which management actions can be activated in respect to application app 1 in different entities of the cloud layers related to this application when these metrics are observed together. Then, the next step is to define rules upon the metrics of a CoI that determine when each of the identified management actions can be applied, as illustrated in Fig. 4. The joint observation of the metrics in the CoI leads to the identification of different management actions. For now, the analysis of the actions is a simple hierarchy of management actions denoted by if-then-else. However, these actions could be ranked according to the cost of their enforcement, and this is planned to be developed as future work. The CoI and the management actions presented in this paper still require the human intervention for their configuration. However we intent to create automatic configuration tools based on information models [9]; and investigate the use of correlation techniques to automatically devise CoI. if ((abllm_response is high) AND (aalm_mysql_conn is high) AND (abllm_wb_perrors is high) AND (aalm_wb_pages is low) AND (vlm_cpu is high) AND (vlm_mem is high)) then Apply management action (4)... if ((aalm_mysql_conn is high) AND (abllm_wb_perrors is low) AND (vlm_cpu is high) AND (vlm_mem is high)) then Apply management action (1) Fig. 4. Using CoI for specification of management action rules. V. EXPERIMENTS In this section, we present the experimental results on analyzing cloud monitoring information using the 3-D monitoring model and the CoI concept introduced in this paper. The aim is to have a simple testbed where we show the data complexity and the necessity to correctly interpret information monitored from all the cloud layers. Our goal is to demonstrate that by using CoIs it is possible to identify and choose more effective management actions. To achieve this goal, we make use of the Wordpress application case study described in the previous section. We introduce three experiments for the same case study. In the first no management action is activated. The second one considers the activation of auto-scaling policies. The third one uses the CoI depicted in Table I and the management rules in Fig. 4. The experiments show how these actions behave for the given scenario and demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach. In Section V-A, we describe a real testbed and how it emulates the deployment of the WordPress application in a cloud environment. Section V-B presents the details about the synthetic load generated to stress the WordPress application. Section V-C discusses the numerical results observed during the experiments. A. Testbed arrangement Fig. 5 shows the testbed arrangement. We exploited three s. Two of them (1 and 3) are IBM LS21 blade servers, while the third one (2) is an IBM X363 M3 storage servers. The corresponding hardware configurations are shown in Fig. 5. On all the s, we installed the Scientific Linux 6.5 distribution. On 1, we installed an OpenStack controller node with Keystone, Glance, Nova (but without Nova-Compute), and Horizon services. On 2, the Nova- Compute service was installed in order to be able to instantiate s on top of it. We deployed a single (1) on 2 where we host all the components of the WordPress application. In 1, we installed the Apache2 Web server, the MySQL DBMS, the Memchached tool, and WordPress. In commercial clouds, a database service is usually purchased with a limited number of supported concurrent connections. For example, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon ISBN , 1th CNSM and Workshop 214 IFIP 6 CNSM Full Paper
7 RDS) provides predefined database instances with different maximum number of concurrent connections, e.g., t1.micro (with 34 connections at most), or m1.small (with 15 connections at most). Therefore, we initially configured the MySQL DBMS to support a maximum of 5 concurrent connections. On 3, we installed the Apache Jmeter tool that emulates clients of the WordPress application as discussed in the next section. Software configurations and versions are also depicted in Fig. 5. Finally, we installed a set of monitoring tools. We exploited: Nagios for retrieving data from the Physical layer (CPU and memory). Havana OpenStack Ceilometer to collect information from the virtualization layer (vitual CPU and memory consumption). AWStats and MyCheckPoint extract data from the Application Architecture layer, respectively, collecting the number of pages per second provided by the Apache Web server and the number of concurrent connections at the MySQL DBMS. Finally, at the Application Business Logic layer, Apache Jmeter analysis plug-ins collects the percentage of errors experienced by users while accessing the WordPress Web site and the response time of each user action. Key Ceilometer (Havana) Mycheckpoint (231-1) Nagios (3.5.1) CPU: Intel Xeon 2.13 GHz (8 cores each) RAM: 36 GB Storage: 6 x 5 GB SATA disks Scientific Linux 6.5 Openstack (Havana) CPU: 2 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron GHz (2 cores each) RAM: 8 GB Storage: 73 GB SATA disk Scientific Linux 6.5 Openstack (Havana) OpenStack controller AWStats (7.3.1) Jmeter (2.11) analysis plugin 6 VCPU 16 GB Memory 2 GB virtual storage Scientific Linux 6.5 Apache2 with php5 and php-pecl-memcached plugin MySql-Server Memcached Wordpress Wordpress plugins: Advanced Random Posts Widget 1.51 Configure Login Timeout 1. Disable Check Comment Flood 1. Memcached Object Cache 2..2 WordPress Apache Memcache MySql OpenStack compute Jmeter Cloud Environment 1 Jmeter 2.11 Client Side Fig. 5. Testbed arrangement with s, s, hardware/software configuration, and monitoring tools. B. Synthetic traffic generation During the experimentation, the load on the WordPress Web site is synthetically generated using the Apache Jmeter tool. It allows to record the actions executed by users when interacting with the Web site. These actions are saved in terms of the HTTP requests the users performed and then Jmeter reproduces such requests according to a certain traffic pattern. To reproduce such a pattern, we generated the synthetic traffic according to Table II. We consider five categories of users, who perform a different set of operations in a specific order. The users continuously perform their set of actions waiting for a random time between one set and the next one. We defined three different scenarios (low, medium, and high) in order to stress the system. For each scenario, we change the number of users in each category that are concurrently performing a set of operations in the WordPress Web site. TABLE II CATEGORIES OF USERS AND POPULATION CHARACTERIZATION FOR EACH OF THE THREE SCENARIOS DESCRIBED IN EACH COLUMN. User Type and Description Low Load Medium Load High Load Admin creating new post Guest reading latest post Guest reading random post Guest reading latest post and leaving a comment Guest reading random post and leaving a comment C. Experimentation We conducted the experimentation by running each scenario for 3 minutes on the testbed (Fig. 5) and collected from the monitoring tools all the metrics specified in the CoI for the WordPress application, as illustrated in Table I. In this experiment we are interested in the Physical Machine Monitoring Slice for 2. There is one main reason for this choice: all the components for the WordPress application and their respective monitoring information are deployed only on this machine. In a more complex scenario, where the application is using multiple, we could focus, for instance, on the Application Monitoring Slice for the WordPress application. This would give us all the monitoring metrics associated with this application throughout all the machines where it is hosted. Figs. 6(a), 6(b), and 6(c) show the monitored information observed for the WordPress application CoI. In all these figures, the first 3 minutes of experimentation from : to :3 represent the low load scenario; the interval from :3 to 1: depicts the medium load scenario; and the high load scenario corresponds to the interval from 1: to 1:3. Fig. 6(a) corresponds to the initial deployment of the Word- Press application: 6 CPUs are assigned to the 1, and the maximum number of concurrent connections in the MySQL DBMS is 5. In this case, there is no CoI and management rules configured. In Fig. 6(a), we observe that during the low and medium load scenarios the users experience a good quality of service (with response time below 5 ms) and no errors are present. However, during the high load scenario, the system is overloaded and both the number of errors and the response time increase considerably. Without using the models proposed in this paper, the administrator of the WordPress Web site would have to look in different monitoring graphics (not necessarily clustered together) and manually relate the information to determine the best management action. A natural reaction to the situation illustrated Fig. 6(a) would be the activation of traditional auto-scaling policies. This means that typically the metrics from Physical and Virtualization layers would be observed in order to activate the ISBN , 1th CNSM and Workshop 214 IFIP 61 CNSM Full Paper
8 Response time (sec) : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 Response time (sec) : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 Response time (sec) : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1: WP errors % WP errors % WP errors % : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1: Apache pages/sec Apache pages/sec Apache pages/sec : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 MySql connections (#) : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 MySql connections (#) : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 MySql connections (#) : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 Mem (used) % Mem (used) % Mem (used) % : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1: CPU % 6 4 CPU % 6 4 CPU % : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 2 : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 2 : :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 1: 1:1 1:2 1:3 (a) Without Management Actions (b) Applying Scaling Policies (c) Applying CoI Support Fig. 6. Monitored metrics in the case of (a) 6 virtual CPUs and a maximum of 5 MySQL connections, (b) 8 virtual CPUs and a maximum of 5 MySQL connections, and (c) 6 virtual CPUs and a maximum of 1 MySQL connections. scaling of resources. Using these metrics, one could conclude that a good management action to solve the overload situation would be to increase the number of virtual CPUs associated with 1. This conclusion could be reached because of three factors: First, the memory occupation for both 2 and 1 is always below 6%, and this indicates that memory is not the problem in this situation. Second, the 1 reaches 1% of CPU usage during the medium load scenario and remains overloaded also during the high load scenario. Third, the 2 CPU load stays below 8% during both the medium and high load scenarios. This suggests the possibility of applying a management action related to increasing the number of virtual CPUs associated to 1 to solve the overload situation. Of course, adding more virtual CPUs to 1 could affect the contention on top of 1 if multiple s were deployed on top of it influencing the QoS of the co-hosted s. To demonstrate the effect of auto-scaling policies, we conducted a second phase of experimentation for the same WordPress application, increasing the number of virtual CPUs associated with 1 to 8 without changing any other parameter. Fig. 6(b) shows the monitoring information collected in this case. We observe that the 1 CPU load with the new configuration is no more at 1%. However, there are no significant improvements in terms of quality of service (i.e., response time) and the number of errors experienced by the users. As depicted in Fig. 6(b), these numbers remain high, despite the fact that in the medium load scenario the Apache Web Server is able to deal with more pages per second. Thus, this experiment demonstrates that the management action consisting of increasing the number of virtual CPUs associated with 1 does not solve the situation. However, when we apply our approach, as illustrated in Fig. 6(c), management actions are taken considering information also at the Application Architecture and Application ISBN , 1th CNSM and Workshop 214 IFIP 62 CNSM Full Paper
9 Business Logic layers. In Fig. 6(c), we present the monitoring information for the WordPress application when deployed using 6 CPUs and this time a number of 1 maximal concurrent connections to the MySQL DBMS, as an effect of the management action activated according to Fig 4. The components of applications and the cloud infrastructure related to each other and the CoI as well as the management rules help express these relationships. In the case of the WordPress application illustrated in Fig. 6(a), the actual problem is related to the maximum number of concurrent connections at the MySQL DBMS. In the high load scenario this number is reached and the MySQL DBMS starts to reject connections, and this generates the Web Page errors. This also limits the number of pages per second that the Apache Web server is able to provide to the users. In Fig. 6(c), we show the results when the situation is analzyed according to the CoI and the management rules discussed Section IV-B. As it can be observed, the quality of service experienced by the users has been greatly improved and the errors have been eliminated. The knowledge of information coming from different layers allows for a different management action to be considered as a possible solution to the overload situation. The management action taken in Fig. 6(c) was to keep the same amount of virtual resources but increase from 5 to 1 the maximal number of concurrent connections. Such a management action has the additional advantage of not influencing other applications in other s on top of the same, contrary to the case where the number of virtual CPUs is increased. Therefore, the analysis of the monitoring information using CoI and management rules shows that it is possible to achieve more effective management actions. These experiments demonstrate the practical necessity to relate and model information at all layers of the cloud environment in order to act and solve the overloaded situation in a more informed way. VI. CONCLUSION Usually, several management mechanisms are available in cloud environments, allowing dynamic adaptations to be performed at different cloud layers. However, the complexity of the scenario may cause such multiple adaptation actions to interfere with each other, canceling their benefits and negatively affecting both the infrastructure and applications QoS. In this paper, we deal with this challenge by proposing a new 3-D monitoring model and by formalizing the innovative concept of context of interest (CoI). Such tools allow to analyze the huge quantity of cloud monitoring information that is usually available in a cloud environment and to identify situations in which multiple adaptations are possible, coordinating them and selecting the most appropriate. A set of experiments performed on a real OpenStack cloud testbed and taking into consideration a WordPress application have been performed. The obtained results demonstrate that when information at the higher layers of the cloud environment is taken into consideration adaptation actions can be chosen in a more reasoned way, thus minimizing their interferences and optimizing cloud resources utilization and the overall cloud and applications QoS. 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Not so long ago, nutrition experts cautioned people to avoid nuts, as they were considered a "fatty" food. During the "fat-free" era of the 1980s, people across the country shunned fat - no matter its source. Now, health researchers have come full circle, understanding the type of fat is far more important than how much fat you eat.
Research supports that healthy fats - monounsaturated fat (MUFA) and polyunsaturated fat (PUFA) - actually lower your risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. A body of evidence has accumulated on the health benefits of tree nuts - almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts - which provide an excellent source of MUFAs, PUFAs and other health-protective nutrients.
Nutty nutrition
Each nut kernel is a concentrated source of key nutrients, including protein, vitamin E, folate, fiber, minerals and phytochemicals, such as flavonoids, proanthocyanidins and phenolic acids. In addition to their healthy MUFAs and PUFAs, walnuts, contain omega-3 fatty acids.
Nuts' nutrient-rich package boosts their ability to reduce oxidative stress and inflammation that are the root of chronic disease. In addition, studies show if you include nuts for a snack instead of other choices, your overall nutrient intake for the entire day will be improved.
Heart-healthy munching
While scores of studies have examined the impact of eating nuts on a variety of conditions, the most concrete link exists for heart health.
"It's well established that people who eat nuts on a regular basis have a lower risk of heart disease," says nutrition researcher Joan Sabate, M.D., Dr. P.H., Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Loma Linda University in California. "It is clear that there are many mechanisms by which eating nuts reduce heart disease. They reduce 'bad' LDL cholesterol, contain powerful antioxidants and influence inflammatory parameters. This is well established in clinical trials of different populations and different countries."
Indeed, in a pooled analysis of 25 intervention trials led by Sabate, which was published in a 2010 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, results showed nut consumption improves blood lipid levels in a dose-related manner, with greater results among people who ate a typical Western diet (high saturated fat, low-fiber) and had high LDL cholesterol levels.
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Eating nuts can help manage and prevent type 2 diabetes.
"Research shows that females who regularly eat nuts in general, and in particular walnuts, have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. And a small clinical trial found that nuts incorporated into the diet of diabetics helped control blood cholesterol levels," says Sabate.
A 2011 study in Diabetes Care found two ounces of nuts daily as a replacement for carbohydrate foods improved both glycemic control and serum lipids in type 2 diabetes.
"There is a double effect for diabetes - nuts can improve the metabolism of glucose, and lower cholesterol and inflammatory parameters for heart disease, the leading cause of death in those with type 2 diabetes," says Sabate.
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New studies also have found a protective link between nut consumption and cognitive health. Animal research, published in the British Journal of Nutrition, linked a diet containing as much as six percent walnuts (equivalent to one ounce in humans) with reversing age-related motor and cognitive deficits in aging rats. While Sabate reports there is not enough evidence to know for sure if walnuts can protect your brain from age-related decline, the preliminary results are promising.
Additional studies have found nuts may offer benefits for fertility, bone health and cancer protection, but more research needs to occur before we can fully understand nuts' potential in these conditions.
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While dieters once feared nuts as concentrated sources of calories that might lead to weight gain, new research indicates that those fears are unfounded.
"Twenty years ago, we noticed that people who ate nuts on a regular basis were thinner than those who refrained from eating nuts. Subsequent studies have found including nuts in a diet with the same amount of calories, results in weight loss. If you add nuts on top of your regular diet, it doesn't help, but if you replace some of your calories with nuts, they help with weight maintenance and weight loss," says Sabate.
He explains that some of the calories in nuts are not fully absorbed during mastication and digestion. If you eat a nut oil, you will absorb 100 percent of its calories; 90 percent of the calories for a nut butter and 70 to 80 percent of the calories for a nut.
Results from the PREDIMED study, which included 847 older Mediterranean adults, found that body mass index and waist circumference decreased by 0.78 and 2.1 centimeters, respectively, for each 30-gram (1 ounce) serving of nuts (Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases).
Aim for one handful - about 1 1/2 ounces - per day of a variety of tree nuts to make the most of their benefits. Sprinkle nuts on salads, vegetables, side dishes, cereals, fruit and yogurt. Stir them into baked goods, such as pancakes and cookies. Let their earthy, delicious flavor--and potent nutrients--shine in your favorite foods every day.
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The nutrient power of nuts
Almonds (23 nuts). 169 calories. Protein: 6g; Fat: 15g; Fiber: 3g (12 percent DV); Vitamin E: 7.3 mg (37 percent DV); Magnesium: 80.8 mg (20 percent DV); Calcium: 75.1 mg (8 percent DV); Manganese: .7 mg (37 percent DV)
Brazil nuts (6 to 8 nuts). 190 calories. Protein: 4g; Fat: 19g; Fiber: 2 g (8 percent DV); Thiamin: .2 mg (12 percent DV); Vitamin E: 1.6 mg (8 percent DV); Selenium: 542 mg (774 percent DV); Magnesium: 106 (27 percent DV)
Cashews (18 nuts). 160 calories. Protein: 4g; Fat: 13g; Vitamin K: 9.7 mcg (12 percent DV); Iron: 1.7 mg (9 percent DV); Magnesium: 72.8 mg (18 percent DV); Copper: .6 mg (31 percent DV)
Hazelnuts (21 nuts). 181 calories. Protein: 4g; Fat: 17g; Fiber: 3g (12 percent DV); Vitamin E: 4.3 mg (21 percent DV); Vitamin B6: .2 mg (9 percent DV); Copper: .5 mg (25 percent DV); Manganese: 1.6 mg (78 percent DV)
Macadamia Nuts (10-12 nuts). 203 calories. Protein: 2g; Fat: 21g; Fiber: 2 mg (8 percent DV); Thiamin: .2 mg (13 percent DV); Magnesium: 33.3 mg (8 percent DV); Manganese: .9 mg (43 percent DV)
Pecans (19 halved). Calories: 199. Protein: 21g; Fiber: 3g ( 12 percent DV); Thiamin: .1 mg (8 percent DV); Magnesium: 37 mg (9 percent DV; Zinc: 1.4 mg (9 percent DV); Manganese: 1.1 mg (55 percent DV)
Pine nuts (3 tablespoons). Calories: 190. Protein: 4g; Fat: 19g; Vitamin E: 2.6 mg (13 percent DV); Vitamin K: 15.2 mcg (19 percent DV); Iron: 1.6 mg (9 percent DV); Manganese: 2.5 mg (124 percent DV)
Pistachios (3 1/2 tablespoons). Calories: 160. Protein: 6g; Fat: 13g; Fiber: 3g (12 percent DV); Thiamin: .2 mg (16 percent DV); Vitamin B6: .4 mg (18 percent DV); Copper: .4 mg (20 percent DV)
Walnuts (14 halves). Calories: 185. Protein: 4g; Fat: 18g; Vitamin B6: .2 mg (8 percent DV); Folate: 27.4 mcg (7 percent DV); Copper: .4 mg (20 percent DV); Manganese: 1 mg (48 percent DV)