Effective Utilization of Resources Through Optimal Allocation and Opportunistic Migration of Virtual Machines in Cloud Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 72-91
Author(s):  
Priyanka H. ◽  
Mary Cherian
Keyword(s):  
Data Center ◽  
Execution Time ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Migration Time ◽  
Resource Usage ◽  
Total Execution Time ◽  
Effective Utilization

Cloud computing has become more prominent, and it is used in large data centers. Distribution of well-organized resources (bandwidth, CPU, and memory) is the major problem in the data centers. The genetically enhanced shuffling frog leaping algorithm (GESFLA) framework is proposed to select the optimal virtual machines to schedule the tasks and allocate them in physical machines (PMs). The proposed GESFLA-based resource allocation technique is useful in minimizing the wastage of resource usage and also minimizes the power consumption of the data center. The proposed GESFL algorithm is compared with task-based particle swarm optimization (TBPSO) for efficiency. The experimental results show the excellence of GESFLA over TBPSO in terms of resource usage ratio, migration time, and total execution time. The proposed GESFLA framework reduces the energy consumption of data center up to 79%, migration time by 67%, and CPU utilization is improved by 9% for Planet Lab workload traces. For the random workload, the execution time is minimized by 71%, transfer time is reduced up to 99%, and the CPU consumption is improved by 17% when compared to TBPSO.

A New Conception of Load Balancing in Cloud Computing Using Tasks Classification Levels

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 118-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahim Youssef ◽  
Ben Lahmar El Habib ◽  
Rahhali Hamza ◽  
Labriji El Houssine ◽  
Eddaoui Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Load Balancing ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Execution Time ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Mathematical Functions ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Cloud Users

Cloud users can have access to the service based on “pay as you go.” The daily increase of cloud users may decrease the performance, the availability and the profitability of the material and software resources used in cloud service. These challenges were solved by several load balancing algorithms between the virtual machines of the data centers. In order to determine a new load balancing improvement; this article's discussions will be divided into two research axes. The first, the pre-classification of tasks depending on whether their characteristics are accomplished or not (Notion of Levels). This new technique relies on the modeling of tasks classification based on an ascending order using techniques that calculate the worst-case execution time (WCET). The second, the authors choose distributed datacenters between quasi-similar virtual machines and the modeling of relationship between virtual machines using the pre-scheduling levels is included in the data center in terms of standard mathematical functions that controls this relationship. The key point of the improvement, is considering the current load of the virtual machine of a data center and the pre-estimation of the execution time of a task before any allocation. This contribution allows cloud service providers to improve the performance, availability and maximize the use of virtual machines workload in their data centers.

scholarly journals Dependency Analysis based Approach for Virtual Machine Placement in Software-Defined Data Center

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 3223
Author(s):  
Jargalsaikhan Narantuya ◽  
Taejin Ha ◽  
Jaewon Bae ◽  
Hyuk Lim
Keyword(s):  
Data Center ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Data Traffic ◽  
Vm Placement ◽  
Matching Method ◽  
Placement Method ◽  
Underlying Network

In data centers, cloud-based services are usually deployed among multiple virtual machines (VMs), and these VMs have data traffic dependencies on each other. However, traffic dependency between VMs has not been fully considered when the services running in the data center are expanded by creating additional VMs. If highly dependent VMs are placed in different physical machines (PMs), the data traffic increases in the underlying physical network of the data center. To reduce the amount of data traffic in the underlying network and improve the service performance, we propose a traffic-dependency-based strategy for VM placement in software-defined data center (SDDC). The traffic dependencies between the VMs are analyzed by principal component analysis, and highly dependent VMs are grouped by gravity-based clustering. Each group of highly dependent VMs is placed within an appropriate PM based on the Hungarian matching method. This strategy of dependency-based VM placement facilitates reducing data traffic volume of the data center, since the highly dependent VMs are placed within the same PM. The results of the performance evaluation in SDDC testbed indicate that the proposed VM placement method efficiently reduces the amount of data traffic in the underlying network and improves the data center performance.

scholarly journals Power consumption prediction in cloud data center using machine learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepika T. ◽  
Prakash P.
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Business World ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Data Centers

The flourishing development of the cloud computing paradigm provides several services in the industrial business world. Power consumption by cloud data centers is one of the crucial issues for service providers in the domain of cloud computing. Pursuant to the rapid technology enhancements in cloud environments and data centers augmentations, power utilization in data centers is expected to grow unabated. A diverse set of numerous connected devices, engaged with the ubiquitous cloud, results in unprecedented power utilization by the data centers, accompanied by increased carbon footprints. Nearly a million physical machines (PM) are running all over the data centers, along with (5 – 6) million virtual machines (VM). In the next five years, the power needs of this domain are expected to spiral up to 5% of global power production. The virtual machine power consumption reduction impacts the diminishing of the PM’s power, however further changing in power consumption of data center year by year, to aid the cloud vendors using prediction methods. The sudden fluctuation in power utilization will cause power outage in the cloud data centers. This paper aims to forecast the VM power consumption with the help of regressive predictive analysis, one of the Machine Learning (ML) techniques. The potency of this approach to make better predictions of future value, using Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) regressor which provides 91% of accuracy during the prediction process.

scholarly journals Proposing a load balancing algorithm with an integrative approach to reduce response time and service process time in data centers

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-637
Author(s):  
Sanaz Hosseinzadeh Sabeti ◽  
Maryam Mollabgher
Keyword(s):  
Load Balancing ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Processing Time ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Overall Response ◽  
Load Balancing Algorithm

Goal: Load balancing policies often map workloads on virtual machines, and are being sought to achieve their goals by creating an almost equal level of workload on any virtual machine. In this research, a hybrid load balancing algorithm is proposed with the aim of reducing response time and processing time. Design / Methodology / Approach: The proposed algorithm performs load balancing using a table including the status indicators of virtual machines and the task list allocated to each virtual machine. The evaluation results of response time and processing time in data centers from four algorithms, ESCE, Throttled, Round Robin and the proposed algorithm is done. Results: The overall response time and data processing time in the proposed algorithm data center are shorter than other algorithms and improve the response time and data processing time in the data center. The results of the overall response time for all algorithms show that the response time of the proposed algorithm is 12.28%, compared to the Round Robin algorithm, 9.1% compared to the Throttled algorithm, and 4.86% of the ESCE algorithm. Limitations of the investigation: Due to time and technical limitations, load balancing has not been achieved with more goals, such as lowering costs and increasing productivity. Practical implications: The implementation of a hybrid load factor policy can improve the response time and processing time. The use of load balancing will cause the traffic load between virtual machines to be properly distributed and prevent bottlenecks. This will be effective in increasing customer responsiveness. And finally, improving response time increases the satisfaction of cloud users and increases the productivity of computing resources. Originality/Value: This research can be effective in optimizing the existing algorithms and will take a step towards further research in this regard.

Data Center Enhancement by Server Resources Utilization

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1B) ◽  
pp. 203-208
Author(s):  
Haider A. Ghanem ◽  
Rana F. Ghani ◽  
Maha J. Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Memory Resources

Data centers are the main nerve of the Internet because of its hosting, storage, cloud computing and other services. All these services require a lot of work and resources, such as energy and cooling. The main problem is how to improve the work of data centers through increased resource utilization by using virtual host simulations and exploiting all server resources. In this paper, we have considered memory resources, where Virtual machines were distributed to hosts after comparing the virtual machines with the host from where the memory and putting the virtual machine on the appropriate host, this will reduce the host machines in the data centers and this will improve the performance of the data centers, in terms of power consumption and the number of servers used and cost.

scholarly journals Allocation of Cloudlets using Solution of Job Assignment Problem

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9S4) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Execution Time ◽  
Assignment Problem ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Scheduling Algorithm ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Job Assignment ◽  
Total Execution Time ◽  
First Come First Serve

Resource allocation policies play a key role in determining the performance of cloud. Service providers in cloud computing have to provide services to many users simultaneously. So the job of allocating cloudlets to appropriate virtual machines is becoming one of the challenging issues of cloud computing. Many algorithms have been proposed to allocate cloudlets to the virtual machines. Here in our paper, we have represented cloudlet allocation problem as job assignment problem and we have proposed Hungarian algorithm based solution for allocating cloudlets to virtual machines. The main objective is to minimize total execution time of cloudlets. Proposed algorithm is implemented in Cloudsim-3.03 simulator. We have done comparative analysis of the simulation results of proposed algorithm with the existing First Come First Serve (FCFS) scheduling policy and Min-Min scheduling algorithm. Proposed algorithm performs better than the above mentioned algorithms in terms of total execution time and makespan time (finishing time of last cloudlet)

scholarly journals Eeadoselfcloud: Energy Efficient Adaptive Depth Optimized Self Cloud Mechanism for VM Migration in Data Centers

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 475-482
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Algorithm Analysis ◽  
Virtual Machine Migration ◽  
Hop Count ◽  
Vm Migration ◽  
Bee Colony ◽  
Data Centres

Cloud computing is a paradigm where all resources like software, hardware and information are accessed over internet by using highly sophisticated virtual data centres. The cloud has a data center with a host of many features. Each machine is shared by many users, and virtual machines are used to use these machines. With a large number of data centers and data centers with a large number of physical hosts. Two important issues in cloud environment are Load balancing and power consumption which solved by virtual machine migration. In earlier learnings, Artificial Bee Colony (ABC)'s policy could lead to a compromise between productivity and energy consumption. There are, however, two ways in the ABC-based Abstract based approach: (1) How to find effective solutions across the globe. (2) how to reduce the time to decide to distribute BM.To overcome this issue, this project develop one novel VM migration scheme called eeadoSelfCloud. This proposed method introduces Bee Lion Optimization (BLO) for VM allocation. Data Center Utilization, Average Node Utilization, Request Rejection Ration, Number of Hop Count and Power Consumption are employed as parameters for the proposed algorithm analysis. The experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm does better than the other available methods.

scholarly journals Randomized routing of virtual machines in IaaS data centers

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e211
Author(s):  
Hadi Khani ◽  
Hamed Khanmirza
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Analytical Model ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
General Distribution

Cloud computing technology has been a game changer in recent years. Cloud computing providers promise cost-effective and on-demand resource computing for their users. Cloud computing providers are running the workloads of users as virtual machines (VMs) in a large-scale data center consisting a few thousands physical servers. Cloud data centers face highly dynamic workloads varying over time and many short tasks that demand quick resource management decisions. These data centers are large scale and the behavior of workload is unpredictable. The incoming VM must be assigned onto the proper physical machine (PM) in order to keep a balance between power consumption and quality of service. The scale and agility of cloud computing data centers are unprecedented so the previous approaches are fruitless. We suggest an analytical model for cloud computing data centers when the number of PMs in the data center is large. In particular, we focus on the assignment of VM onto PMs regardless of their current load. For exponential VM arrival with general distribution sojourn time, the mean power consumption is calculated. Then, we show the minimum power consumption under quality of service constraint will be achieved with randomize assignment of incoming VMs onto PMs. Extensive simulation supports the validity of our analytical model.

scholarly journals Enhanced Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers: Combinations of Fuzzy Logic with Reinforcement Learning and Biogeography-Based Optimization (BBO) Algorithms

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arezoo Ghasemi ◽  
Abolfazl Toroghi Haghighat ◽  
Amin Keshavarzi
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Load Balancing ◽  
Execution Time ◽  
Load Balance ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Vertical Load ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Cloud Data Centers

Abstract The process of mapping Virtual Machines (VMs) to Physical Ma- chines (PMs), which is defined as VM placement, affects Cloud Data Centers (DCs) performance. To enhance the performance, optimal placement of VMs regarding conflicting objectives has been proposed in some research, such as Multi-Objective VM reBalance (MOVMrB) and Reinforcement Learning VM reBalance (RLVMrB) in recent years. The MOVMrB algorithm is based on the BBO meta-heuristic algorithm and the RLVMrB algorithm inspired by reinforcement learning, which in both of them the non-dominance method is used to evaluate generated solutions. Although this approach reaches accept- able results, it fails to consider other solutions which are optimal regarding all objectives, when it meets the best solution based on one of these objectives. In this paper, we propose two enhanced multi-objective algorithms, Fuzzy- RLVMrB and Fuzzy-MOVMrB, that are able to consider all objectives when evaluating candidate solutions in solution space. All four algorithms aim to balance the load between VMs in terms of processor, bandwidth, and memory as well as horizontal and vertical load balance. We simulated all algorithms using the CloudSim simulator and compared them in terms of horizontal and vertical load balance and execution time. The simulation results show that Fuzzy-RLVMrB and Fuzzy-MOVMrB algorithms outperform RLVMrB and MOVMrB algorithms in terms of vertical load balancing and horizontal load balancing. Also, the RLVMrB and Fuzzy-RLVMrB algorithms are better in execution time than the MOVMrB and Fuzzy-MOVMrB algorithms.

Energy Efficient Load Balancing in Cloud Data Center Using Clustering Technique

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Thilagavathi ◽  
D. Divya Dharani ◽  
R. Sasilekha ◽  
Vasundhara Suruliandi ◽  
V. Rhymend Uthariaraj
Keyword(s):  
Response Time ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Cloud Data Center ◽  
Resource Requirement ◽  
Server Consolidation ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Initial Allocation

Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth in recent days. As a result of this, there has been a great increase in the growth of data centers all over the world. These data centers consume a lot of energy, resulting in high operating costs. The imbalance in load distribution among the servers in the data center results in increased energy consumption. Server consolidation can be handled by migrating all virtual machines in those underutilized servers. Migration causes performance degradation of the job, based on the migration time and number of migrations. Considering these aspects, the proposed clustering agent-based model improves energy saving by efficient allocation of the VMs to the hosting servers, which reduces the response time for initial allocation. Middle VM migration (MVM) strategy for server consolidation minimizes the number of VM migrations. Further, randomization of extra resource requirement done to cater to real-time scenarios needs more resource requirements than the initial requirement. Simulation results show that the proposed approach reduces the number of migrations and response time for user request and improves energy saving in the cloud environment.

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