<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The goal of data centers in the cloud computing environment is to provision the workloads and the computing resources as demanded by the users without the intervention of the providers. To achieve this, virtualization based server consolidation acts as a vital part in virtual machine placement process. Consolidating the Virtual Machines (VMs) on the Physical Machines (PMs) cuts down the unused physical servers, decreasing the energy consumption, while keeping the constraints for CPU and memory utilization. This technique also reduces the resource wastage and optimizes the available resources efficiently. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) that is a well-known multi objective heuristic algorithm and Grey Wolf Algorithm (GWO) has been used to consolidate the servers used in the virtual machine placement problem. The proposed Fuzzy HAGA algorithm outperforms the other algorithms MMAS, ACS, FFD and Fuzzy ACS compared against it as the number of processors and memory utilization are lesser than these algorithms.</p></abstract>

The goal of data centers in the cloud computing environment is to provision the workloads and the computing resources as demanded by the users without the intervention of the providers. To achieve this, virtualization based server consolidation acts as a vital part in virtual machine placement process. Consolidating the Virtual Machines (VMs) on the Physical Machines (PMs) cuts down the unused physical servers, decreasing the energy consumption, while keeping the constraints for CPU and memory utilization. This technique also reduces the resource wastage and optimizes the available resources efficiently. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) that is a well-known multi objective heuristic algorithm and Grey Wolf Algorithm (GWO) has been used to consolidate the servers used in the virtual machine placement problem. The proposed Fuzzy HAGA algorithm outperforms the other algorithms MMAS, ACS, FFD and Fuzzy ACS compared against it as the number of processors and memory utilization are lesser than these algorithms.

A Hybrid Technique for Server Consolidation in Cloud Computing Environment

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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The goal of data centers in the cloud computing environment is to provision the workloads and the computing resources as demanded by the users without the...

A Hybrid Technique for Server Consolidation in Cloud Computing Environment

Published Online: Mar 27, 2020

Page range: 36 - 52

Received: Oct 31, 2018

Accepted: Dec 27, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2020-0003

Keywords
Virtual Machine (VM) placement, VM, power consumption, resource wastage, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Grey Wolf Optimisation (GWO) Algorithm, HAGA Algorithm

© 2020 C. Vijaya et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Hybrid Technique for Server Consolidation in Cloud Computing Environment

Published Online: Mar 27, 2020

Page range: 36 - 52

Received: Oct 31, 2018

Accepted: Dec 27, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2020-0003

KeywordsVirtual Machine (VM) placement, VM, power consumption, resource wastage, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Grey Wolf Optimisation (GWO) Algorithm, HAGA Algorithm

© 2020 C. Vijaya et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Virtual Machine (VM) placement, VM, power consumption, resource wastage, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Grey Wolf Optimisation (GWO) Algorithm, HAGA Algorithm