A Comparative Study of VM Load Balancing Policies in Cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing has become one of the most significant internet-based technology in recent years. Users from almost every sector are demanding various services of the cloud. Cloud computing provides software, platform for creating new applications and hardware or infrastructure as a service. A cloud service provider provides services on the basis of client's requests. Client's requests are processed in the virtualized data centres where a physical machine runs a number of virtual machines on it. An important issue in cloud is load balancing in virtual machines of a data centre. In this paper, the performance of three VM load balancing policies - round robin, throttled and active monitoring/ equally spread execution load is evaluated based on parameters response time and data centre processing time. Cloud Analyst is used as tool. Benchmark data of the users of a social networking site in the world is used for comparative analysis.