TY - GEN
T1 - HERO vs Zombie
T2 - Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - 9th International Conference, MODELSWARD 2021, and 10th International Conference, MODELSWARD 2022, Revised Selected Papers
AU - Zaidenberg, Nezer Jacob
AU - Kiperberg, Michael
AU - Elinav, Yael
AU - Moshinky, Alex
AU - Siag, Lior
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Virtual servers are now standard in data centres. Multiple virtual machines (guests) are consolidated on much fewer hosts on-site or on “the cloud”, Thus saving most of the hosting costs. Virtual servers serve most of our computational needs. However, virtual machines consume no physical space. Thus abandoned servers are often unnoticed. The system administrators do not delete the servers. Sometimes the administrators do not know the servers are not in use. (Some servers often “become” unused as business processes changes, and the System administrators are not informed when the last user no longer uses the server) These servers are known as “zombie” machines. “Zombie” machines waste resources and (as they are left unattended and unpatched) pose a cyber security risk. We present HERO (Host Environment Resource Optimization). HERO is a novel tool to optimize resource use and security. HERO uses multiple tests and machine learning approaches to assist system administrators in identifying and removing “zombie” machines.
AB - Virtual servers are now standard in data centres. Multiple virtual machines (guests) are consolidated on much fewer hosts on-site or on “the cloud”, Thus saving most of the hosting costs. Virtual servers serve most of our computational needs. However, virtual machines consume no physical space. Thus abandoned servers are often unnoticed. The system administrators do not delete the servers. Sometimes the administrators do not know the servers are not in use. (Some servers often “become” unused as business processes changes, and the System administrators are not informed when the last user no longer uses the server) These servers are known as “zombie” machines. “Zombie” machines waste resources and (as they are left unattended and unpatched) pose a cyber security risk. We present HERO (Host Environment Resource Optimization). HERO is a novel tool to optimize resource use and security. HERO uses multiple tests and machine learning approaches to assist system administrators in identifying and removing “zombie” machines.
KW - Green computing
KW - Inactive virtual machines
KW - Remote management
KW - System administration
KW - Virtual machines
KW - Virtualization sprawling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85172120551&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-38821-7_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-38821-7_3
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AN - SCOPUS:85172120551
SN - 9783031388200
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 48
EP - 59
BT - Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - 9th International Conference, MODELSWARD 2021, and 10th International Conference, MODELSWARD 2022, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Pires, Luís Ferreira
A2 - Hammoudi, Slimane
A2 - Seidewitz, Edwin
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 6 February 2022 through 8 February 2022
ER -