Research Article
Virtual Machine Consolidation with Minimization of Migration Thrashing for Cloud Data Centers
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Migration thrashing of dynamic consolidation. (a) Initial state. (b) VM1 is migrated to PM2. (c) PM2 is overloaded because VM5 and VM6 scale up. (d) VM1 is migrated to PM3. (e) VM2, VM3, and VM4 scale down and PM3 is overloaded because VM7 and VM8 scale up. (f) VM1 is migrated back to PM1.
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