Optimal load balancing in cloud computing by efficient utilization of virtual machines

Abstract

Load balancing is the major concern in the cloud computing environment. Cloud comprises of many hardware and software resources and managing these will play an important role in executing a client's request. Now a day's clients from different parts of the world are demanding for the various services in a rapid rate. In this present situation the load balancing algorithms built should be very efficient in allocating the request and also ensuring the usage of the resources in an intelligent way so that underutilization of the resources will not occur in the cloud environment. In the present work, a novel VM-assign load balance algorithm is proposed which allocates the incoming requests to the all available virtual machines in an efficient manner. Further, the performance is analyzed using Cloudsim simulator and compared with existing Active-VM load balance algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm distributes the load on all available virtual machines without under/over utilization. © 2014 IEEE.