The increasing number of cloud computing infrastructure and of the users' demands for services has made the resource management an impossible task to be manually performed by human operators. In this paper, we surveyed the state-of-the-art of resource management for infrastructure as a service in cloud computing. We provide an overview of the recent research findings and technologies by focusing on the resource management techniques such as resource provisioning, discovery, monitoring, mapping, allocation, consolidation, modeling, and scheduling. Then we putted forward the open challenge issues in the deployment of the virtual machines which may result into underutilized and wastage of resources or into a poor service delivery in cloud computing. This survey triggered innovative methods to handle the existing problems of resource management in cloud computing and we hope that it can be used as a source of interested readers to understand the existing methodologies in this research area for future enhancements.