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ContainerCloudSim: An environment for modeling and simulation of containers in cloud data centers
Author(s) -
Piraghaj Sareh Fotuhi,
Dastjerdi Amir Vahid,
Calheiros Rodrigo N.,
Buyya Rajkumar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.2422
Subject(s) - cloud computing , computer science , provisioning , cloudsim , scalability , scheduling (production processes) , container (type theory) , software deployment , distributed computing , virtual machine , architecture , operating system , engineering , mechanical engineering , operations management , art , visual arts
Summary Containers are increasingly gaining popularity and becoming one of the major deployment models in cloud environments. To evaluate the performance of scheduling and allocation policies in containerized cloud data centers, there is a need for evaluation environments that support scalable and repeatable experiments. Simulation techniques provide repeatable and controllable environments, and hence, they serve as a powerful tool for such purpose. This paper introduces ContainerCloudSim , which provides support for modeling and simulation of containerized cloud computing environments. We developed a simulation architecture for containerized clouds and implemented it as an extension of CloudSim. We described a number of use cases to demonstrate how one can plug in and compare their container scheduling and provisioning policies in terms of energy efficiency and SLA compliance. Our system is highly scalable as it supports simulation of large number of containers, given that there are more containers than virtual machines in a data center. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.