A Review on Virtual Machine Scheduling in Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources like network, server, storage, applications and services. Since these resources can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction, we can see nowadays there is a rapid increase in the use of cloud computing. Thus, it has become an important issue to balance the cloud and its resources so as to provide better performance and services to the end users of the cloud and at the same time majority of users being served by application deployments in cloud provider’s environment. In cloud computing, load balancing means balancing three important stages through which a request is processed. This includes Data center selection, Virtual Machine Scheduling and Task Scheduling at selected data center. In this paper, we mainly focus on various techniques and algorithms available for Virtual Machine management. It also gives a clear insight of their characteristics to resolve accumulated load in an efficient Virtual Machine Management.