A High Up-Time and Security Centered Resource Provisioning Model Toward Sustainable Cloud Service Management
Deepika Saxena, Ashutosh Kumar Singh
Abstract
This paper addresses the pivotal challenge of achieving seamless performance in Cloud Data Centres (CDCs) while meeting high availability, security, and sustainability requirements. Existing approaches often struggle to cater to all critical objectives simultaneously and overlook the significance of inter-dependent Virtual Machines (VMs) during resource distribution. To tackle these issues, a novel sustainable resource management model is proposed to provide high availability and reduce security breaches within CDCs. The contributions include computing VM ranks to prioritize critical VMs for high availability, workload distribution with power and heat constraints for a sustainable environment, and minimizing security breaches through monitoring and terminating malicious VMs. Real-world Google Cluster workloads validate the model’s efficacy, showcasing improved availability, resource utilization, Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), up to 15.11%, 19%, and 23.4%, respectively with reduced security breaches, and energy consumption up to 53.8% and 17.1%, respectively.