International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 04 Issue: 05 | May -2017
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Virtualization Technique for Effective Resource Utilization and Dedicated Resource Management Megha V R1, Dr G N Srinivasan2 1Software
Engineering, R.V College of Engineering, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2Professor
–RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Abstract-
isolated from other partitions through the containment
In these modern days, for numerously
properties of the underlying Ultravisor software layer.
triggering trendy application with various technology adoption leading to growth in the need of the enormous
Secured partition can operate on top of BIOS along with the
resources such as CPU’s, Memory, NIC ports, HBA ports
usage of Ultravisor to perform tasks such as virtual address
and so forth. For this growing need for resources, which
to physical address translation, physical device emulation,
in turn impacts both the users and also many
and physical-to-virtual interrupt translation.
organization in a cost effective way, Also resources may An improved feature for Secured partition includes the
not be utilized completely always leading to wastage.
virtualization of the processor’s native virtualization Virtualization with commodity hypervisors holds the
instructions itself. [1]Thus Secured partition is capable of
promise of solving this problem of logical partitioning of
hosting commodity hypervisors, such as VMware©, Xen©,
resources in a single box. What commodity hypervisors
and HyperV, which require these instructions for
cannot do is create efficient partitions of dedicated
operation. With this additional feature, the Secured
resources which are not shared with other partitions.
partition operating environment will be able to directly host
This capability is critical in certain enterprise class
Windows, Linux, and any other operating systems in logical
environments.
partitions alongside partitions with commodity hypervisors hosting their own operating systems.
1. Introduction
2. Background Research
Secured partition is a software layer consisting of a Partition Machine Monitor (PMM), its associated service partitions,
Hypervisors are becoming popular because of their ability to
and firmware/drivers provided for the guest partitions.
make more efficient use of server resources through
Secured Partition creates and manages guest partitions
virtualization and sharing of resources among the logical
which have dedicated non-shared computing resources1.
partitions (virtual machines) that they create.
These s-PAR guest partitions will be referred to as Soft
technology has the ability to be extended to this class of
Machines (SMs).
logical partitioning but initial design focus is on the creation of secure logical partitions with dedicated hardware
This is implemented as a hardware assisted virtual machine
resources (i.e., CPUs, memory, and I/O). This capability is
which is optimized for non-shared computing resources.
critical in many enterprise class environments.
Each SM provides the capabilities of a physical server and is
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