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Energy-Aware Dynamic VM Consolidation in Cloud Data Centers Using Ant Colony System

Fahimeh Farahnakian, Adnan Ashraf, Pasi Liljeberg, Tapio Pahikkala, Juha Plosila, Ivan Porres, Hannu Tenhunen, Energy-Aware Dynamic VM Consolidation in Cloud Data Centers Using Ant Colony System. In: Carl Kesselman (Ed.), 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, 104–111, IEEE, 2014.

Abstract:

As the scale of a cloud data center becomes larger and larger, the energy consumption of the data center also grows rapidly. Dynamic consolidation of Virtual Machines (VMs) presents a significant opportunity to save energy by turning off unused Physical Machines (PMs) in data centers. In this paper, we present a distributed controller to perform dynamic VM consolidation to improve the resource utilizations of PMs and to reduce their energy consumption. Moreover, we use the ant colony system to find a near-optimal VM placement solution based on the specified objective function. Experimental results on the real workload traces from more than a thousand PlanetLab VMs show that the proposed approach reduces energy consumption and maintains required performance levels in a large-scale data center.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{inpFaAsLiPaPlPoTe14a,
  title = {Energy-Aware Dynamic VM Consolidation in Cloud Data Centers Using Ant Colony System},
  booktitle = {7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing},
  author = {Farahnakian, Fahimeh and Ashraf, Adnan and Liljeberg, Pasi and Pahikkala, Tapio and Plosila, Juha and Porres, Ivan and Tenhunen, Hannu},
  editor = {Kesselman, Carl},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  pages = {104–111},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {Dynamic VM consolidation, ant colony system, cloud computing, green computing, energy-efficiency, SLA},
  ISSN = {2159-6182},
}

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