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Towards a Multi-objective VM Reassignment for Large Decentralised Data Centres

  • Takfarinas Saber
  • , Anthony Ventresque
  • , Ivona Brandic
  • , James Thorburn
  • , Liam Murphy
  • University College Dublin
  • IBM Research-Ireland
  • TU Wien
  • IBM Software Group

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12 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Optimising the IT infrastructure of large, often geographically distributed, organisations goes beyond the classical virtual machine reassignment problem, for two reasons: (i) the data centres of these organisations are composed of a number of hosting departments which have different preferences on what to host and where to host it, (ii) the top-level managers in these data centres make complex decisions and need to manipulate possible solutions favouring different objectives to find the right balance. This challenge has not yet been comprehensively addressed in the literature and in this paper we demonstrate that a multi-objective VM reassignment is feasible for large decentralised data centres. We show on a realistic data set that our solution outperforms other classical multi-objective algorithms for VM reassignment in terms of quantity of solutions (by about 15% on average) and quality of the solutions set (by over 6% on average).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2015
EditorsOmer Rana, Rajkumar Buyya, Ioan Raicu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages65-74
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9780769556970
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2015 - Limassol, Cyprus
Duration: 7 Dec 201510 Dec 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2015

Conference

Conference8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2015
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityLimassol
Period7/12/1510/12/15

Keywords

  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Large Decentralised Data centres
  • Machine Reassignment
  • Multi-objective Optimisation

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