Towards Network-Topology Aware Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Datacenters
Xuebiao Yuchi, Sachin S. Shetty · 2016
Network aware resource allocation aims to ensure the performance of users' applications as well as the efficiency of overall resource usage inside the cloud datacenter. However, the cloud datacenter's interior topology information as well as the user's customized demands are commonly not considered during current resource allocating procedures. In this paper, we propose an optimized network aware resource allocation procedure, in which the network topology factors of the datacenter are introduced to minimize the communication latency between VMs as well as overall network costs. Furthermore, the user's personalized requirements as well as the datacenter's nature in resource heterogeneity are also considered during this procedure to make it more practical. Simulation results demonstrate that our approach can improve the resource allocation procedure's efficiency significantly.