Spatial-Temporal Prediction Models for Active Ticket Managing in Data Centers.

Performance ticket handling is an expensive operation in data centers, where physical boxes host multiple virtual machines (VMs). A large body of tickets arise from resource usage warnings, e.g., CPU and RAM usages that exceed predefined thresholds. The transient nature of CPU and RAM usage as well as their strong correlation across time among co-located VMs within boxes drastically increase the c...