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Optimal VM placement in data centres with architectural and resource constraints

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posted on 2024-06-05, 05:25 authored by D Zeng, S Guo, H Huang, S Yu, VCM Leung
Recent advance in virtualisation technology enables service provisioning in a flexible way by consolidating several virtual machines (VMs) into a single physical machine (PM). The inter-VM communications are inevitable when a group of VMs in a data centre provide services in a collaborative manner. With the increasing demands of such intra-data-centre traffics, it becomes essential to study the VM-to-PM placement such that the aggregated communication cost within a data centre is minimised. Such optimisation problem is proved NP-hard and formulated as an integer programming with quadratic constraints in this paper. Different from existing work, our formulation takes into consideration of data-centre architecture, inter-VM traffic pattern, and resource capacity of PMs. Furthermore, a heuristic algorithm is proposed and its high efficiency is extensively validated.

History

Journal

International journal of autonomous and adaptive communications systems

Volume

8

Pagination

392-406

Location

Olney, Eng.

ISSN

1754-8632

eISSN

1754-8640

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article, C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2015, Inderscience Publishers

Issue

4

Publisher

Inderscience Publishers