Evaluation of SLA-based decision strategies for VM scheduling in cloud data centers
Andreas Kohne, Damian Pasternak, Lars Nagel, Olaf Spinczyk · 2016
Service level agreements (SLAs) gain more and more importance in the area of cloud computing. An SLA is a contract between a customer and a cloud service provider (CSP) in which the CSP guarantees functional and non-functional quality of service parameters for cloud services. Since CSPs have to pay for the hardware used as well as penalties for violating SLAs, they are eager to fulfill these agreements while at the same time optimizing the utilization of their resources.