Towards a Greener Cloud Infrastructure Management using Optimized Placement Policies

Cloud infrastructures are designed to simultaneously service many, diverse applications that consist of collections of Virtual Machines (VMs). The placement policy used to map applications onto physical servers has important effects in terms of application performance and resource efficiency. We pro...

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Authors: Pascual Saiz, José Antonio; Lorido Botrán, Tania; Miguel Alonso, José; Lozano Alonso, José Antonio
Format: Article
Publication date:2014
Country:España
Institution:Universidad del País Vasco
Repository:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/71568
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/71568
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:cloud computing
VM placement
multi-objective optimization
energy consumption
tree-network data center topology
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description Cloud infrastructures are designed to simultaneously service many, diverse applications that consist of collections of Virtual Machines (VMs). The placement policy used to map applications onto physical servers has important effects in terms of application performance and resource efficiency. We propose enhancing placement policies with network-aware optimizations, trying to simultaneously improve application performance, resource efficiency and power efficiency. The per-application placement decision is formulated as a bi-objective optimization problem (minimizing communication cost and the number of physical servers on which an application runs) whose solution is searched using evolutionary techniques. We have tested three multi-objective optimization algorithms with problem-specific crossover and mutation operators. Simulation-based experiments demonstrate how, in comparison with classic placement techniques, a low-cost optimization results in improved assignments of resources, making applications run faster and reducing the energy consumed by the data center. This is beneficial for both cloud clients and cloud providers.
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publisher Jose Antonio Pascual, Tania Lorido-Botran, José Miguel-Alonso, José Antonio Lozano: Towards a Greener Cloud Infrastructure Management using Optimized Placement Policies. J. Grid Comput. 13(3): 375-389 (2015)
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spelling Towards a Greener Cloud Infrastructure Management using Optimized Placement Policies Pascual Saiz, José Antonio Lorido Botrán, Tania Miguel Alonso, José Lozano Alonso, José Antonio cloud computing VM placement multi-objective optimization energy consumption tree-network data center topology Cloud infrastructures are designed to simultaneously service many, diverse applications that consist of collections of Virtual Machines (VMs). The placement policy used to map applications onto physical servers has important effects in terms of application performance and resource efficiency. We propose enhancing placement policies with network-aware optimizations, trying to simultaneously improve application performance, resource efficiency and power efficiency. The per-application placement decision is formulated as a bi-objective optimization problem (minimizing communication cost and the number of physical servers on which an application runs) whose solution is searched using evolutionary techniques. We have tested three multi-objective optimization algorithms with problem-specific crossover and mutation operators. Simulation-based experiments demonstrate how, in comparison with classic placement techniques, a low-cost optimization results in improved assignments of resources, making applications run faster and reducing the energy consumed by the data center. This is beneficial for both cloud clients and cloud providers. This work has been partially supported by the Saiotek and Research Groups 2013-2018 (IT-609-13) programs (Basque Government), TIN2010-14931 and COM-BIOMED network in computational biomedicine (Carlos III Health Institute). Dr. Pascual is supported by a postdoctoral grant of the UPV/EHU. Mrs Lorido-Botran is supported by a doctoral grant from the Basque Government. Prof. Miguel-Alonso is a member of the HiPEAC European Network of Excellence. Jose Antonio Pascual, Tania Lorido-Botran, José Miguel-Alonso, José Antonio Lozano: Towards a Greener Cloud Infrastructure Management using Optimized Placement Policies. J. Grid Comput. 13(3): 375-389 (2015) http://hdl.handle.net/10810/71568
spellingShingle Towards a Greener Cloud Infrastructure Management using Optimized Placement Policies
Pascual Saiz, José Antonio
cloud computing
VM placement
multi-objective optimization
energy consumption
tree-network data center topology
title Towards a Greener Cloud Infrastructure Management using Optimized Placement Policies
title_full Towards a Greener Cloud Infrastructure Management using Optimized Placement Policies
title_fullStr Towards a Greener Cloud Infrastructure Management using Optimized Placement Policies
title_full_unstemmed Towards a Greener Cloud Infrastructure Management using Optimized Placement Policies
title_short Towards a Greener Cloud Infrastructure Management using Optimized Placement Policies
title_sort Towards a Greener Cloud Infrastructure Management using Optimized Placement Policies
topic cloud computing
VM placement
multi-objective optimization
energy consumption
tree-network data center topology
topic_facet cloud computing
VM placement
multi-objective optimization
energy consumption
tree-network data center topology
url http://hdl.handle.net/10810/71568