Published Paper Details:

The placement of the Virtual Machines in a Cloud Computing environment affects the application performance, which has been deployed in those virtual machines. The placement of the virtual machines considering their past, current and future requirements will lead to optimal utilization of the resources of the Cloud Service Providers (CSP). It is not just in interest of the users of the cloud services but also the CSP. The placement of the virtual machines on the appropriate hosts by the CSP will help to provide better services to the users. The requirements of the users such as required by law, for, e.g., placement of data within a certain geographic boundary or adhering to SLA(service level agreement) requirement of performance, uptime, etc. can be achieved only with proper selection of hosts. In this study, several metrics such as utilization of the CPU, memory, storage of the hosts and the I/O requirements of the applications have been considered to devise a better VM scheduling policy which can be implemented using one of the several open source hypervisors such as Xen, KVM or Virtual Box. It is also planned to deploy the policies in a real HyperBox based cloud environment.