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This paper examines two fundamental issues pertaining to virtual machines (VM) consolidation. Current virtualization management tools, both commercial and academic, enable multiple virtual machines to be consolidated into few servers so that other servers can be turned off, saving power. These tools determine effective strategies for VM placement w...
Inspired by virtual machine placement problems, we study heuristics for the Vector Bin Packing problem, where we are required to pack n items represented by d-dimensional vectors, into as few bins of size 1 d each as possible. We systematically study variants of the First Fit Decreasing (FFD) algorithm that have been proposed for this problem. Insp...
