An Optimization of Energy Saving in Cloud Environment

Cloud computing is a technology in distributed computing which facilitates pay per model based on user demand and requirement. Cloud can be defined as a collection of virtual machines. This includes both computational and storage facility. The goal of cloud computing is to provide efficient access to remote and geographically distributed resources. Cloud Computing is developing day by day and faces many challenges; one of them is i) Load Balancing and ii) Task scheduling. Load balancing is defined as division of the amount of work that a system has to do between two or more systems so that more work gets done in the same amount of time and all users get served faster. Load balancing can be implemented with hardware, software, or a combination of both. Load balancing is mainly used for server clustering. Task Scheduling is a set of policies to control the work order to be performed by a system. It is also a technique which is used to improve the overall execution time of the job. Task Scheduling is responsible for selection of best suitable resources for task execution, by taking some parameters into consideration. A good task scheduler adapts its scheduling strategy according to the changing environment and the type of task. In this paper, the Energy Saving Load Balancing (ESLB) Algorithm and Energy Saving Task Scheduling (ESTS) algorithm was proposed. The various scheduling algorithms (FCFS, RR, PRIORITY, and SJF) are reviewed and compared. The ESLB algorithm and ESTS algorithm was tested in cloudsim toolkit and the result shows better performance.