Does VM create timestamp correspond to request arrival time?

[knodir]

Hello,

I am using V1 dataset for my research where I assume VM create times in vmtable.csv correspond to the VM request arrival time. Is this a valid assumption? Note that VM create time refers to the time when cloud scheduler created the VM while request arrival refer to the time when customer requested to create a VM.

For example, for the case below, can I assume that vm1 create request arrived before vm2?

vm1,0,900
vm2,300,900

My example simplifies the data format vmtable.csv as vm_uuid, create_time, delete_time.

Thanks!

[elicortez]

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out. You are right in the sense that "vm created time" and "customer request time" carry different semantics, however in the traces we provide we do not differentiate them.
In this context and according to your example, it's save to assume vm1 was requested before vm2.

Best,