Open AccessLOAD BALANCING IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENT: A REVIEW
Author(s) -
Sheenam Kamboj,
Navtej Singh Ghumman
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of computer and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-3061
DOI - 10.24297/ijct.v15i8.1504
Subject(s) - load balancing (electrical power) , computer science , server , virtual machine , cloud computing , round robin dns , network load balancing services , virtualization , distributed computing , load management , resource allocation , resource (disambiguation) , operating system , computer network , the internet , engineering , geometry , mathematics , domain name system , electrical engineering , grid
An essential role of cloud computing platform is to dynamically balance the load among the different servers in order to improve resource utilization and to avoid hotspots. Load balancing (LB) is done on both sides i.e. on provider as well as on consumer side. On provider side, load balancing is the problem of allocating virtual machines to servers at runtime. Virtual Machine need to be reassigned so that servers do not get overloaded as demand changes. On consumer side application load can be balanced which provides efficiency to the consumers. On cloud computing platform, load balancing of the entire system can be dynamically handled by using virtualization technology through which itÂbecomes possible to remap virtual machine and physical resources according to the change in load. However, in order to improve performance, the virtual machines have to fully utilize its resources and services by adapting to computing environment dynamically. The load balancing with proper allocation of resources must be guaranteed in order to improve resource utility.