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Load dispersion-aware VM placement in favor of energy-performance tradeoff

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Huge energy consumption in cloud infrastructure has turned into a challenging problem. Virtualization technology, which can be regarded as the first step in energy conservation by offering benefits like on-demand resource provisioning and live migration, creates a platform on which different resource allocation and scheduling policies can be defined on how to accumulate VMs on fewer number of hosts while respecting performance metrics. In this paper, after presenting a classification on VM placement strategies, we propose different combinatorial placement policies that take load dispersion of hosts into account to dynamically adapt their placement decisions. Simulated experiments through Cloudsim showed noteworthy results concerning energy-performance tradeoff.

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    Ali Nadjar, Saeid Abrishami & Hossein Deldari

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Nadjar, A., Abrishami, S. & Deldari, H. Load dispersion-aware VM placement in favor of energy-performance tradeoff. J Supercomput 73, 1547–1566 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-016-1842-4

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