Research Article

A Firefly Colony and Its Fuzzy Approach for Server Consolidation and Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Datacenters

Table 1

Server consolidation results for VM requirements with reference values as 25% and 45% and correlation coefficients as −0.754 and −0.755.

Reference value
Correlation coefficient−0.754−0.755
AlgorithmNumber of physical machines used ()Average consolidation ratioCPU execution time (S)Number of physical machines used ()Average consolidation ratioCPU execution time (S)

Fuzzy firefly colony 951.055.311921.20 6.39
Firefly colony 961.065.281931.20 6.35
ACS 971.075.311941.21 6.47
MMAS1011.125.261951.21 6.53
FFD1251.388.342181.3624.61