In Cloud computing the user requests are passaged to data centers (DCs) to
accommodate resources. It is essential to select the suitable DCs as per the
user requests so that other requests should not be penalized in terms of time
and cost. The searching strategies consider the execution time rather than
the related penalties while searching DCs. In this work, we discuss Penalty
Elimination-based DC Allocation (PE-DCA) using Guided Local Search (GLS)
mechanism to locate suitable DCs with reduced cost, response time, and
processing time. The PE-DCA addresses, computes, and eliminates the penalties
involved in the cost and time through iterative technique using the defined
objective and guide functions. The PE-DCA is implemented using CloudAnalyst
with various configurations of user requests and DCs. We examine the PE-DCA
and the execution after-effects of various costs and time parameters to
eliminate the penalties and observe that the proposed mechanism performs
best.