scholarly journals An Enhanced Multi-Objective Gray Wolf Optimization for Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisha Fatima ◽  
Nadeem Javaid ◽  
Ayesha Anjum Butt ◽  
Tanzeela Sultana ◽  
Waqar Hussain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Utilization Rate ◽  
Gray Wolf ◽  
Vm Placement ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Cloud Data Centers ◽  
Better Than

Cloud computing offers various services. Numerous cloud data centers are used to provide these services to the users in the whole world. A cloud data center is a house of physical machines (PMs). Millions of virtual machines (VMs) are used to minimize the utilization rate of PMs. There is a chance of unbalanced network due to the rapid growth of Internet services. An intelligent mechanism is required to efficiently balance the network. Multiple techniques are used to solve the aforementioned issues optimally. VM placement is a great challenge for cloud service providers to fulfill the user requirements. In this paper, an enhanced levy based multi-objective gray wolf optimization (LMOGWO) algorithm is proposed to solve the VM placement problem efficiently. An archive is used to store and retrieve true Pareto front. A grid mechanism is used to improve the non-dominated VMs in the archive. A mechanism is also used for the maintenance of an archive. The proposed algorithm mimics the leadership and hunting behavior of gray wolves (GWs) in multi-objective search space. The proposed algorithm was tested on nine well-known bi-objective and tri-objective benchmark functions to verify the compatibility of the work done. LMOGWO was then compared with simple multi-objective gray wolf optimization (MOGWO) and multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO). Two scenarios were considered for simulations to check the adaptivity of the proposed algorithm. The proposed LMOGWO outperformed MOGWO and MOPSO for University of Florida 1 (UF1), UF5, UF7 and UF8 for Scenario 1. However, MOGWO and MOPSO performed better than LMOGWO for UF2. For Scenario 2, LMOGWO outperformed the other two algorithms for UF5, UF8 and UF9. However, MOGWO performed well for UF2 and UF4. The results of MOPSO were also better than the proposed algorithm for UF4. Moreover, the PM utilization rate (%) was minimized by 30% with LMOGWO, 11% with MOGWO and 10% with MOPSO.

scholarly journals Virtual Machine Placement via Bin Packing in Cloud Data Centers

Electronics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisha Fatima ◽  
Nadeem Javaid ◽  
Tanzeela Sultana ◽  
Waqar Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Bilal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Bin Packing ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Particle Swarm ◽  
Vm Placement ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Data Centers ◽  
Vm Consolidation

With the increasing size of cloud data centers, the number of users and virtual machines (VMs) increases rapidly. The requests of users are entertained by VMs residing on physical servers. The dramatic growth of internet services results in unbalanced network resources. Resource management is an important factor for the performance of a cloud. Various techniques are used to manage the resources of a cloud efficiently. VM-consolidation is an intelligent and efficient strategy to balance the load of cloud data centers. VM-placement is an important subproblem of the VM-consolidation problem that needs to be resolved. The basic objective of VM-placement is to minimize the utilization rate of physical machines (PMs). VM-placement is used to save energy and cost. An enhanced levy-based particle swarm optimization algorithm with variable sized bin packing (PSOLBP) is proposed for solving the VM-placement problem. Moreover, the best-fit strategy is also used with the variable sized bin packing problem (VSBPP). Simulations are done to authenticate the adaptivity of the proposed algorithm. Three algorithms are implemented in Matlab. The given algorithm is compared with simple particle swarm optimization (PSO) and a hybrid of levy flight and particle swarm optimization (LFPSO). The proposed algorithm efficiently minimized the number of running PMs. VM-consolidation is an NP-hard problem, however, the proposed algorithm outperformed the other two algorithms.

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 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.

scholarly journals CPU-Memory Aware VM Consolidation for Cloud Data Centers

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Nithiya Baskaran ◽  
Eswari R
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Vm Placement ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Data Centers ◽  
Placement Algorithm ◽  
Violation Rate ◽  
Vm Consolidation ◽  
Memory Utilization ◽  
Better Than

The unbalanced usage of resources in cloud data centers cause an enormous amount of power consumption. The Virtual Machine (VM) consolidation shuts the underutilized hosts and makes the overloaded hosts as normally loaded hosts by selecting appropriate VMs from the hosts and migrates them to other hosts in such a way to reduce the energy consumption and to improve physical resource utilization. Efficient method is needed for VM selection and destination hosts selection (VM placement). In this paper, a CPU-Memory aware VM placement algorithm is proposed for selecting suitable destination host for migration. The VMs are selected using Fuzzy Soft Set (FSS) method VM selection algorithm. The proposed placement algorithm considers both CPU, Memory, and combination of CPU-Memory utilization of VMs on the source host. The proposed method is experimentally compared with several existing selection and placement algorithms and the results show that the proposed consolidation method performs better than existing algorithms in terms of energy efficiency, energy consumption, SLA violation rate, and number of VM migrations.

An Energy-Efficient Consolidation of Virtual Machines in Cloud Data Centers

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Gamal Eldin I. Selim ◽  
Mohamed A. El-Rashidy ◽  
Nawal A. El-Fishawy
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Data Centers

Multidimensional Resource Scheduling in Cloud Data Centers

2014 ◽  
Vol 1008-1009 ◽  
pp. 1513-1516
Author(s):  
Hai Na Song ◽  
Xiao Qing Zhang ◽  
Zhong Tang He
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Bin Packing ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Resource Scheduling ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Cloud Computing Environment ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Data Centers

Cloud computing environment is regarded as a kind of multi-tenant computing mode. With virtulization as a support technology, cloud computing realizes the integration of multiple workloads in one server through the package and seperation of virtual machines. Aiming at the contradiction between the heterogeneous applications and uniform shared resource pool, using the idea of bin packing, the multidimensional resource scheduling problem is analyzed in this paper. We carry out some example analysis in one-dimensional resource scheduling, two-dimensional resource schduling and three-dimensional resource scheduling. The results shows that the resource utilization of cloud data centers will be improved greatly when the resource sheduling is conducted after reorganizing rationally the heterogeneous demands.

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