POSTER: Challenges in VM Scheduling and Placement: Insights from a Real-World SAP Cloud Dataset

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Abstract

Resource allocation in distributed environments remains a key challenge. In this study, we analyze VM scheduling and placement in the SAP cloud platform, the infrastructure behind the world’s largest enterprise resource planning provider. Using observability data from approximately 1,800 hypervisors and 48,000 VMs over a 30-day period, we identify inefficiencies in workload management. Unlike existing datasets, our dataset provides fine-grained time series of fully virtualized, enterprise-grade workloads, including long-running, memory-intensive SAP HANA instances as well as general-purpose VMs.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACM SIGCOMM Posters and Demos '25: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Posters and Demos
PublisherACM New York, NY, USA
Pages124-126
Number of pages3
ISBN (electronic)979-8-4007-2026-0
Publication statusPublished - 10 Sept 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title39th annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication
Abbreviated titleACM SIGCOMM 2025
Conference number39
Duration8 - 11 September 2025
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
LocationSão Francisco Convent
CityCoimbra
CountryPortugal

External IDs

ORCID /0009-0000-0900-2158/work/192042728
ORCID /0000-0002-3825-2807/work/192045155
ORCID /0009-0006-6309-2696/work/192045315
Scopus 105018189305

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Keywords

  • virtual machines, Scheduling, workload management