Virtual machine consolidation has been a widely explored topic in recent years due to Cloud
Data Centers' effect on global energy consumption. Thus, academia and companies made …

Virtualization is a technique that uses the hypervisor to create an abstract layer over the
underlying hardware and allows the resources of this host such as memory, processor to be …

VM placement is an important phase of the VM consolidation process for the improvement of
resource utilization and energy efficiency inside a cloud data center. The aim of this paper is …