Cloud Computing Agent-Based Performance Evaluation of Resource Monitoring System in IaaS

Abstract

Applications now operating on virtual servers will be moved to another virtual or physical server, or perhaps to the same server altogether, to save power consumption in cloud data centres and maximize the use of computing resources. Optimizing resources is directly affected by knowing when to move an application to a virtual machine. Efficiently tracking the use of computer resources is the surest way to optimize performance. Therefore, to assess the efficiency of virtual machines, they require an all-inclusive intelligent monitoring agent. They provide an agent-based system for tracking resource use, namely CPU and memory, in this chapter. Virtual machine resource utilization data is collected and shown on a dashboard by the monitoring agent. The dashboard shows important performance indicators like memory and CPU use. In order to optimize resources, the cloud administrator might use the data provided by the dashboard's statistics report.