A Toolkit for Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Virtual Machine Consolidation Approach

Conducting realistic cloud experiments to evaluate new management strategies is very expensive and risky. In recent years, the research community proposes various simulation software toolkits and frameworks to provide a platform and the necessary building blocks for modeling an optimized virtual machine consolidation in cloud data centers. The models proposed by these frameworks are usually not exhaustive and address a specific management problem or task. The proposed simulation toolkit addresses the dynamic virtual machine consolidation problem, provides various types of simulation, ensures a wide range of logging and debugging information such as performance indicators and charts, and allows to determine optimal model parameters for various modes of operation minimizing the number of active physical machines and decreasing the number of SLA violations.