Performance evaluation for traditional virtual machine placement algorithms in the cloud

Abstract

The virtual machine placement problem can be described as designing optimal placement scheme for virtual machine in cloud environment. Cloud data centers are facing increasingly virtual machine placement problems, such as high energy consumption, imbalanced utilization of multidimensional resource, and high resource wastage rate. In this paper, typical exact and heuristic algorithms as solution to the virtual machine placement problem in the cloud are surveyed in terms of energy consumption and resource wastage. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the performance of both the exact and approximate algorithms developed by using the WebCloudSim sytem.