Energy-Efficient Resource Provisioning with SLA Consideration on Cloud Computing

Cloud computing aims at reducing energy consumption and maximizing resource efficiency without violating service level agreement (SLA). To address these important issues, this study proposes an energy-efficient resource provisioning technology with SLA consideration for virtual machine scheduling. According to SLAs, the resource manager could consolidate virtual machines onto the physical machine for meeting customers SLA requests. Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms other proposed ones in power consumption.