Anatomy of Virtual Machine Placement Techniques in Cloud

With consistent advancement in virtualization techniques, organizations are building up enhanced datacenters that are capable of maintaining impactful resource management, high-performance benchmarks, and controlled power consumption for eco-friendly computing. Virtual machine placement problem has a significant part in designing the datacenters. Placing virtual machines in the cloud can be very profitable and beneficial but it can be the cause of many new problems, if not performed properly. It comprises multiple complex relations and designing factors that directly affect the operating cost of datacenters. It bridges up the customers with cloud administrators to obtain preferences and SLA of both, to bring out an optimal solution. As optimization has given a boost to many businesses, an efficiently optimized VM placement technique has got a lot of potentials and can bring a drastic rise for many organizations running toward the cloud. A comprehensive study has been performed to bring out the important traits of different VM placement solutions by surveying cloud literature. By assessing the capabilities and objectives of different approaches and techniques, this paper presents an in-depth comparison, unveiling the drawbacks, and suggestions to improvise the methods in this direction.