Chapter 9

Cloud Resource Management and Scheduling

Abstract

Cloud resource management requires complex policies and decisions for multi-objective optimization. Effective resource management is extremely challenging due to the scale of the cloud infrastructure and to the unpredictable interactions of the system with a large population of users. The scale makes it impossible to have accurate global state information and the large user population makes it nearly impossible to predict the type and the intensity of the system workload.

An overview of policies and mechanisms for cloud resource management is followed by a presentation of energy efficiency and cloud resource utilization and the impact of application scaling on resource management. ...

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