Dynamic optimization of virtual machine placement by resource usage prediction

Abstract

In order to save energy with preventing the lack of the resources on servers in data centers, we address the dynamic optimization of virtual machine placement. A decision problem of the virtual machine placement has been formulated as Bin Packing problem. Conventional methods repeat to solve the problem at regular intervals. Live migration is used for changing the virtual machine placement, but some of live migrations are unnecessary; the virtual machine is migrated repeatedly between the physical servers. For the purpose of reducing the unnecessary live migrations, we propose a dynamic optimization of virtual machine placement by resource usage prediction. The proposed method predicts the future resource usage by Auto Regressive Model. The proposed method decides the virtual machine placement by solving the Bin Packing problem with the predicted resource usage.