A new model for virtual machine migration in virtualized cluster server based on Fuzzy Decision Making

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel VM migration model using Fuzzy Decision Making and TOPSIS to optimize load balancing in virtualized cluster servers, improving response time and reducing unbalance.

Contribution

It presents a new VM migration decision model based on TOPSIS, enhancing load balancing in heterogeneous cluster servers.

Findings

Improved cluster response time.

Reduced load imbalance.

Effective VM migration decisions.

Abstract

In this paper, we show that performance of the virtualized cluster servers could be improved through intelligent decision over migration time of Virtual Machines across heterogeneous physical nodes of a cluster server. The cluster serves a variety range of services from Web Service to File Service. Some of them are CPU-Intensive while others are RAM-Intensive and so on. Virtualization has many advantages such as less hardware cost, cooling cost, more manageability. One of the key benefits is better load balancing by using of VM migration between hosts. To migrate, we must know which virtual machine needs to be migrated and when this relocation has to be done and, moreover, which host must be destined. To relocate VMs from overloaded servers to underloaded ones, we need to sort nodes from the highest volume to the lowest. There are some models to finding the most overloaded node, but they have some shortcomings. The focus of this paper is to present a new method to migrate VMs between cluster nodes using TOPSIS algorithm - one of the most efficient Multi Criteria Decision Making techniques- to make more effective decision over whole active servers of the Cluster and find the most loaded serversTo evaluate the performance improvement resulted from this model, we used cluster Response time and Unbalanced Factor.