Projection Pursuit algorithm for virtual machine clustering for monitoring purposes

In modern cloud data centers, tens of thousands of virtual machines are monitored and managed every day. Cloud service providers task is revealed to be complex and time consuming. In order to make it easier, researchers focused on minimizing the number of virtual machine instances to be monitored in fine grain. This is achieved by clustering virtual machines in classes of similar behavior. Projection Pursuit is one well-known clustering technique that yields good results in this domain. This paper presents a first study of clustering virtual machines using Projection Pursuit technique. The technique is tested on simulated instances, the experiments show promising results.