Package org.cloudbus.cloudsim.selectionpolicies

Interface VmSelectionPolicy

All Known Implementing Classes:

VmSelectionPolicyMaximumCorrelation, VmSelectionPolicyMinimumMigrationTime, VmSelectionPolicyMinimumUtilization, VmSelectionPolicyRandomSelection

public interface VmSelectionPolicy

An interface to be used to implement VM selection policies for a list of migratable VMs. The selection is defined by sub classes.
If you are using any algorithms, policies or workload included in the power package please cite the following paper:

• Anton Beloglazov, and Rajkumar Buyya, "Optimal Online Deterministic Algorithms and Adaptive Heuristics for Energy and Performance Efficient Dynamic Consolidation of Virtual Machines in Cloud Data Centers", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), Volume 24, Issue 13, Pages: 1397-1420, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, New York, USA, 2012

Since:

CloudSim Toolkit 3.0

Author:

Anton Beloglazov

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static VmSelectionPolicy	NULL

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Vm	getVmToMigrate(Host host)	Gets a VM to migrate from a given host.

Field Details

NULL

static final VmSelectionPolicy NULL

Method Details

getVmToMigrate

Vm getVmToMigrate(Host host)

Gets a VM to migrate from a given host.

Parameters:

host - the host to get a Vm to migrate from

Returns:

the vm to migrate or Vm.NULL if there is not Vm to migrate