HERO vs. Zombie: Identifying Zombie Guests in a Virtual Machine Environment

Yael Elinav, Alex Moshinky, Lior Siag, Nezer Zaidenberg, Nezer Zaidenberg

2021

Abstract

Virtual servers are important in many data-centers. Multiple guest virtual machines are consolidated on several hosts on-site or on the cloud, and serve the organization’s computational needs. However, virtual machines not cleared from the system, known as zombie machines, waste resources and pose a security risk. We present a novel tool to optimize resource use by tracking down zombie machines: HERO (Host Environment Resource Optimization). HERO leverages multiple testing approaches and machine learning to assist system administrators in locating “zombie” machines.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Elinav Y., Moshinky A., Siag L. and Zaidenberg N. (2021). HERO vs. Zombie: Identifying Zombie Guests in a Virtual Machine Environment.In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-487-9, pages 240-245. DOI: 10.5220/0010261802400245

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward21,
author={Yael Elinav and Alex Moshinky and Lior Siag and Nezer Zaidenberg},
title={HERO vs. Zombie: Identifying Zombie Guests in a Virtual Machine Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2021},
pages={240-245},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010261802400245},
isbn={978-989-758-487-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - HERO vs. Zombie: Identifying Zombie Guests in a Virtual Machine Environment
SN - 978-989-758-487-9
AU - Elinav Y.
AU - Moshinky A.
AU - Siag L.
AU - Zaidenberg N.
PY - 2021
SP - 240
EP - 245
DO - 10.5220/0010261802400245