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- PublicationTowards a Multi-Objective VM Reassignment for Large Decentralised Data Centres(Conference Publishing Services, 2015-12-10)
; ; ; ; Optimising the IT infrastructure of large, often geographically distributed, organisations goes beyond the classical virtual machine reassignment problem, for two reasons: (i) the data centres of these organisations are composed of a number of hosting departments which have different preferences on what to host and where to host it; (ii) the top-level managers in these data centres make complex decisions and need to manipulate possible solutions favouring different objectives to find the right balance. This challenge has not yet been comprehensively addressed in the literature and in this paper we demonstrate that a multi-objective VM reassignment is feasible for large decentralised data centres. We show on a realistic data set that our solution outperforms other classical multi-objective algorithms for VM reassignment in terms of quantity of solutions (by about 15% on average) and quality of the solutions set (by over 6% on average).592Scopus© Citations 10 - PublicationVM reassignment in hybrid clouds for large decentralised companies: A multi-objective challengeOptimising the data centres of large IT organisations is complex as (i) they are composed of various hosting departments with their own preferences and (ii) reassignment solutions can be evaluated from various independent dimensions. But in reality, the problem is even more challenging as companies can now choose from a pool of cloud services to host some of their workloads. This hybrid search space seems intractable, as each workload placement decision (seen as running in a virtual machine on a server) is required to answer many questions: can we host it internally? In which hosting department? Are the capital allocators of this hosting department ok with this placement? How much does it save us and is it safe? Is there a better option in the Cloud? Etc. In this paper, we define the multi-objective VM reassignment problem for hybrid and decentralised data centres. We also propose H2¿D2, a solution that uses a multi-layer architecture and a metaheuristic algorithm to suggest reassignment solutions that are evaluated by the various hosting departments (according to their preferences). We compare H2¿D2 against state-of-the-art multi-objective algorithms and find that H2¿D2 outperforms them both in terms of quantity (approx 30% more than the second-best algorithm on average) and quality of solutions (19% better than the second-best on average).
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