Study and performance analysis of various VM placement strategies

IaaS has become one of the most dominant features that cloud computing offers by providing access to computing resources in a virtualized environment. IaaS enables datacenter´s hardware to get virtualized using virtualization, which allows Cloud providers to create multiple Virtual Machine (VMs) instances on a single physical machine, thus improving resource utilization and increasing the Return on Investment (ROI). The placement of VMs among hosts is interpreted as a bin packing problem in most of the time. In this work, we have implemented some of the bin packing solutions to address these VM placement problems. We ran our simulation on a cloud computing simulation toolkit known as CloudSim using Planet Lab workload data.