Power-Aware and Performance-Guaranteed Virtual Machine Placement in the Cloud.

Cloud service providers offer virtual machines (VMs) as services to users over Internet. As VMs are running on physical machines (PMs), PM power consumption needs to be considered. Meanwhile, VMs running on the same PM share physical resources, and there exists great resource contention, which results in VM performance degradation. Therefore, how to place VMs to reduce PM power consumption and gua...