GRVMP: A Greedy Randomized Algorithm for Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers

Cloud computing efficiency greatly depends on the efficiency of the virtual machines (VMs) placement strategy used. However, VM placement has remained one of the major challenging issues in cloud computing mainly because of the heterogeneity in both virtual and physical machines (PMs), the multidime...

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Published in:IEEE systems journal Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 2571 - 2582
Main Authors: Azizi, Sadoon, Shojafar, Mohammad, Abawajy, Jemal, Buyya, Rajkumar
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.06.2021
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Cloud computing
cloud data center (CDC)
Computer centers
Data centers
energy and power consumption
Energy consumption
Greedy algorithms
greedy randomized algorithm
Heterogeneity
Heuristic algorithms
Optimization
Performance evaluation
Performance measurement
Placement
Power demand
Resource management
Resource utilization
resource wastage
Virtual environments
virtual machine placement (VMP)
Virtual machining
ISSN:1932-8184, 1937-9234
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Summary:Cloud computing efficiency greatly depends on the efficiency of the virtual machines (VMs) placement strategy used. However, VM placement has remained one of the major challenging issues in cloud computing mainly because of the heterogeneity in both virtual and physical machines (PMs), the multidimensionality of the resources, and the increasing scale of the cloud data centers (CDCs). An inefficiency in VM placement strategy has a significant influence on the quality of service provided, the amount of energy consumed, and the running costs of the CDCs. To address these issues, in this article, we propose a greedy randomized VM placement (GRVMP) algorithm in a large-scale CDC with heterogeneous and multidimensional resources. GRVMP inspires the "power of two choices" model and places VMs on the more power-efficient PMs to jointly optimize CDC energy usage and resource utilization. The performance of GRVMP is evaluated using synthetic and real-world production scenarios (Amazon EC2) with several performance matrices. The results of the experiment confirm that GRVMP jointly optimizes power usage and the overall wastage of resource utilization. The results also show that GRVMP significantly outperforms the baseline schemes in terms of the performance metrics used.
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ISSN:1932-8184
1937-9234
DOI:10.1109/JSYST.2020.3002721