“…Biran et al [5] formulated the network-aware VM placement problem as a Min Cut Ratio-aware VM Placement problem that considers not only local physical resources but also network resources, and introduced heuristics to solve it. In addition to these, there are also studies focusing on the SLA aspect [6,8,22], the contention between VMs [11,13], and the temperature in the data center [18]. However, the IT managers' preferences are not considered in the literature.…”