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Chapter Two

Revisiting VM performance and optimization challenges for big data

Muhammad Ziad Nayyer^a^,^b; Imran Raza^b; Syed Asad Hussain^b ^a Department of Computer Science, GIFT University, Gujranwala, Pakistan^b Department of Computer Science, Communication and Network Research Centre, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

The concept of virtualization in cloud computing aims to maximize resource utilization and minimize cost by deploying multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) on a single physical server sharing resources such as CPU, Cache, I/O, and Memory. The sharing of these resources can cause severe performance degradation, thus requiring VM migration techniques for performance enhancement. The introduction of big data has made the ...

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