A Study on Energy Efficient VM Allocation in Green Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud computing plays a significant role since its evolution. With its ubiquitous nature, sharing of resources and management of services has never been convenient than ever before. Due to its ability to provide scalability and elasticity infrastructure, many organization utilizes the services, where the workload is shifted in cloud data centers. This data center consumes more power and there is the release of unwanted carbon footprint in the environment. Therefore here lies the need to improve the use of energy and at the same time minimizing power consumption. In this paper, we present a survey on VM placement and migration to achieve energy efficiency in cloud data centers.