An Energy Efficient Virtual Machine Migration Method in Cloud

Cloud computing, as a newly emerged service oriented paradigm, is emerging as a leading solution for on-demand services. One of the challenges faced by current cloud is to decide how to migrate virtual machine to another physical machine. This paper presents an energy efficient virtual machine migration method in cloud. Power consumption of physical machine and network overhead are taken into account. The power consumption curve for virtual machine migrating process is illustrated. The experiments verify the effectiveness of our proposed method with low overhead.