Improving Server Consolidation Using Physical Consolidation Concept

Abstract

Creating enough space for resources by minimizing number of servers in datacenters is a prerequisite for server consolidation. This requirement can be characterized by Bin packing algorithm, which is known to be NP hard problem. There are different categories of bin packing problem like First fit decreasing, Best Fit, and load balancing techniques. Our paper applies Best Fit algorithm to address Bin packing problem. The results show that this technique increases performance as far as server consolidation is concerned.