Towards an enhanced VM placement solution for power-aware cloud environments

This paper describes the already completed and verified first stage of a work in progress that aims to port a proposed optimised framework for virtual machine placement on hosts in a given cloud computing datacentre. The previously implemented and simulated framework using Matlab is being transferred to a richer cloud computing simulation environment that is CloudSim. The use of CloudSim permits, apart from validating the previous research, the introduction of many additional parameters and criteria in the simulated scenario thus enabling a far richer and in-depth analysis of the benefits and drawbacks of the proposed solution, such as power-awareness, that is an additional feature included in CloudSim libraries.