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Improving Cloud Computing Virtual Machines Balancing through Hosts and Virtual Machines Similarities

  • June 2017
DOI:10.1109/SERVICES.2017.21
  • Conference: IEEE SERVICES 2017 - 13th IEEE World Congress on Services.
  • At: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
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Gabriel Beims Brascher at Federal University of Santa Catarina
Gabriel Beims Brascher
Rafael Weingartner
Rafael Weingartner
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Carlos Becker Westphall at Federal University of Santa Catarina
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Quality of service is one of the major concerns in cloud computing. Virtual machines (VMs) balancing techniques can help reduce service degradation in cloud computing environments. Several works have presented cloud computing balance techniques; however, only a few used the similarity between VMs and physical hosts to map VMs migrations. In addition, most proposals do not consider the size, dynamism, and heterogeneity of the cloud when developing a management technique. We present a cloud computing VMs balancing algorithm that uses the similarity between VMs and physical hosts to create the map of migrations. Furthermore, the proposal takes into account the size, dynamism, and heterogeneity of the cloud when mapping VMs migrations; thus the proposal is developed in a distributed fashion, enabling the processing of each cluster at a time. To evaluate the proposal, we used the Google cluster data set. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed technique can improve the balance of allocated resources; thus helping reduce service degradation. Moreover, the runtime of the algorithm indicates that it is feasible to be used in a real cloud computing environment with hundreds of physical servers and virtual machines.
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Quality of service is one of the major concerns in cloud computing. Virtual machines (VMs) balancing techniques can help reduce service
degradation in cloud computing environments. Several works have presented cloud computing balance techniques, however, only a few used the
similarity between VMs and physical hosts to map VMs migrations. In addition, most proposals do not consider the size, dynamism, and
heterogeneity of the cloud when developing a management technique. We present a cloud computing VMs balancing algorithm that uses the
similarity between VMs and physical hosts to create the map of migrations. Furthermore, the proposal takes into account the size, dynamism, and
heterogeneity of the cloud when mapping VMs migrations, thus the proposal is developed in a distributed fashion, enabling the processing of each
cluster at a time. To evaluate the proposal, we used the Google cluster data set. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed technique can
improve the balance of allocated resources, thus helping reduce service degradation. Moreover, the runtime of the algorithm indicates that it is
feasible to be used in a real cloud computing environment with hundreds of physical servers and virtual machines.
Published in: Services (SERVICES), 2017 IEEE World Congress on
Date of Conference: 25-30 June 2017
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 14 September 2017
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DOI: 10.1109/SERVICES.2017.21
Publisher: IEEE
Conference Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
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Cloud Computing (CC) is a model that provides on-demand access to
computing resources [1]. Due to its advantages, CC usage has increased
over past years [2], [3]; thus the complexity and management costs of
cloud infrastructures also increase [4], [5].
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Gabriel Beims Bräscher
Dept. of Informatic & Stat., Fed. Univ. of Santa
Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
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Carlos Becker Westphall
Dept. of Informatic & Stat., Fed. Univ. of Santa
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