Resource-aware algorithm for virtual machine placement in cloud environment

Abstract

Cloud computing emerged as a new computing paradigm for on-demand provisioning of IT services over the Internet. One challenging research issues in cloud environment it to develop any energy efficient and resource-aware algorithm for virtual machine placement (VMP) problem. If the problem is not dealt properly, it affects the performance of cloud data centers in terms of resource utilization and power consumption. In this paper, we propose a new VM placement for a cloud environment, to address VMP problem. The objective of the proposed algorithm is to maximize resource utilization and minimize the number of active physical machines. We adopt a clever strategy to assign ranks to VMs and placing VMs based on their ranks. We simulate the proposed algorithm as well as existing algorithm. The simulation results show that the performance of the proposed is better than the existing algorithm.