Dynamic VM consolidation for energy-aware and SLA violation reduction in cloud computing

With the large-scale deployment of virtualized data centers, energy consumption and SLA (Service Level Agreement) violation have already become the urgent issue to be solved. And it is essential and important to design energy-aware allocation policy for energy-aware and SLA violation reduction. In this paper, we propose a novel allocation and selection policy for the dynamic virtual machine (VM) consolidation in virtualized data centers to reduce energy consumption and SLA violation. Firstly, we use the mean and standard deviation of CPU utilization for VM to determine the hosts overloaded or not; secondly we use the positive maximum correlation coefficient to select VMs from those overloading hosts for migration. Although the proposed allocation and selection policies performs a little worse than the previous ones in energy consumption, experiments show that it performs greatly better than the previous ones on the whole.