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Policy for Distributed Self-Organizing Infrastructure Management in Cloud Datacenters

Authors:
Daniela Loreti
Anna Ciampolini

Keywords: Distributed Infrastructure Management; Cloud Computing; Self-Organization; Autonomic Computing

Abstract:
Modern data centers for cloud computing are facing the challenge of an ever growing complexity due to the increasing number of users and their augmenting resource requests. A lot of efforts are now concentrated on providing the cloud infrastructure with autonomic behavior, so that it can take decisions about virtual machine (VM) management across the datacenter’s nodes without human intervention. While the major part of these solutions is intrinsically centralized and suffers of scalability and reliability problems, we investigate the possibility to provide the cloud with a decentralized self-organizing behavior. We present a new migration policy suitable for a distributed environment, where hosts can exchange status information with each other according to a predefined protocol. The goal of the policy is twofold: energy saving and load balancing. We tested the policy performance by means of an ad hoc built simulator. As we expected, our distributed implementation cannot perform as good as a centralized management, but it can contribute to augment the degree of scalability of a cloud infrastructure.

Pages: 37 to 43

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: April 20, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3913

ISBN: 978-1-61208-331-5

Location: Chamonix, France

Dates: from April 20, 2014 to April 24, 2014