scholarly journals A Survey on the Use of Preferences for Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-39
Author(s):  
Abdulaziz Alashaikh ◽  
Eisa Alanazi ◽  
Ala Al-Fuqaha
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Vm Placement ◽  
Placement Problem ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Data Centers ◽  
Design Factors ◽  
The Given

With the rapid development of virtualization techniques, cloud data centers allow for cost-effective, flexible, and customizable deployments of applications on virtualized infrastructure. Virtual machine (VM) placement aims to assign each virtual machine to a server in the cloud environment. VM Placement is of paramount importance to the design of cloud data centers. Typically, VM placement involves complex relations and multiple design factors as well as local policies that govern the assignment decisions. It also involves different constituents including cloud administrators and customers that might have disparate preferences while opting for a placement solution. Thus, it is often valuable to return not only an optimized solution to the VM placement problem but also a solution that reflects the given preferences of the constituents. In this article, we provide a detailed review on the role of preferences in the recent literature on VM placement. We examine different preference representations found in the literature, explain their existing usage, and explain the adopted solving approaches. We further discuss key challenges and identify possible research opportunities to better incorporate preferences within the context of VM placement.

scholarly journals An Distributed Virtual Machine Placement Algorithm for Balanced Resource Utilization and Low Energy Consumption

2018 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 03092
Author(s):  
Bo Li ◽  
Yun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machine Placement ◽  
Vm Placement ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Low Energy Consumption ◽  
Cloud Data Centers ◽  
Placement Algorithm ◽  
Heterogeneous Cloud

Virtual machine placement is the process of selecting the most suitable server in large cloud data centers to deploy newly-created VMs. Traditional load balancing or energy-aware VM placement approaches either allocate VMs to PMs in centralized manner or ignore PM’s cost-capacity ratio to implement energy-aware VM placement. We address these two issues by introducing a distributed VM placement approach. A auction-based VM placement algorithm is devised for help VM to find the most suitable server in large heterogeneous cloud data centers. Our algorithm is evaluated by simulation. Experimental results show two major improvements over the existing approaches for VM placement. First, our algorithm efficiently balances the utilization of multiple types of resource by minimizing the amount of physical servers used. Second, it reduces system cost compared with existing approaches in heterogeneous environment.

scholarly journals Energy aware dynamic virtual machine consolidation in cloud data centers

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.8) ◽  
pp. 550 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Anusha ◽  
P Supraja
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Large Power ◽  
Complex Tasks ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Network Bandwidth ◽  
Virtual Machine Consolidation ◽  
Cloud Data Centers

Cloud computing is a growing technology now-a-days, which provides various resources to perform complex tasks. These complex tasks can be performed with the help of datacenters. Data centers helps the incoming tasks by providing various resources like CPU, storage, network, bandwidth and memory, which has resulted in the increase of the total number of datacenters in the world. These data centers consume large volume of energy for performing the operations and which leads to high operation costs. Resources are the key cause for the power consumption in data centers along with the air and cooling systems. Energy consumption in data centers is comparative to the resource usage. Excessive amount of energy consumption by datacenters falls out in large power bills. There is a necessity to increase the energy efficiency of such data centers. We have proposed an Energy aware dynamic virtual machine consolidation (EADVMC) model which focuses on pm selection, vm selection, vm placement phases, which results in the reduced energy consumption and the Quality of service (QoS) to a considerable level.

scholarly journals Virtual Machine Placement via Bin Packing in Cloud Data Centers

Electronics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisha Fatima ◽  
Nadeem Javaid ◽  
Tanzeela Sultana ◽  
Waqar Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Bilal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Bin Packing ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Particle Swarm ◽  
Vm Placement ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Data Centers ◽  
Vm Consolidation

With the increasing size of cloud data centers, the number of users and virtual machines (VMs) increases rapidly. The requests of users are entertained by VMs residing on physical servers. The dramatic growth of internet services results in unbalanced network resources. Resource management is an important factor for the performance of a cloud. Various techniques are used to manage the resources of a cloud efficiently. VM-consolidation is an intelligent and efficient strategy to balance the load of cloud data centers. VM-placement is an important subproblem of the VM-consolidation problem that needs to be resolved. The basic objective of VM-placement is to minimize the utilization rate of physical machines (PMs). VM-placement is used to save energy and cost. An enhanced levy-based particle swarm optimization algorithm with variable sized bin packing (PSOLBP) is proposed for solving the VM-placement problem. Moreover, the best-fit strategy is also used with the variable sized bin packing problem (VSBPP). Simulations are done to authenticate the adaptivity of the proposed algorithm. Three algorithms are implemented in Matlab. The given algorithm is compared with simple particle swarm optimization (PSO) and a hybrid of levy flight and particle swarm optimization (LFPSO). The proposed algorithm efficiently minimized the number of running PMs. VM-consolidation is an NP-hard problem, however, the proposed algorithm outperformed the other two algorithms.

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