cloud computing simulation using opnet pdf

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Cloud computing aims to power the next generation data
centers and enables application service providers to lease
data center capabilities for deploying applications
depending on user QoS (Quality of Service) requirements.
Cloud applications have different composition,
configuration, and deployment requirements. Quantifying
the performance of resource allocation policies and
application scheduling algorithms at finer details in Cloud
computing environments for different application and
service models under varying load, energy performance
(power consumption, heat dissipation), and system size is a
challenging problem to tackle. To simplify this process, in
this paper we propose CloudSim: an extensible simulation
toolkit that enables modelling and simulation of Cloud
computing environments. The CloudSim toolkit supports
modelling and creation of one or more virtual machines
(VMs) on a simulated node of a Data Center, jobs, and
their mapping to suitable VMs. It also allows simulation of
multiple Data Centers to enable a study on federation and
associated policies for migration of VMs for reliability and
automatic scaling of applications.