Table 5 Data center, server and VM characteristics for experiments

Data Center:

 System Architecture =  × 86

 Operating System = Linux

 VM Type = Amazon EC2

 Resource Cost = 1.0

 Memory Cost = 0.05

 Storage Cost per usage = 0.01

 Bandwidth at Resource Level = 0.1

Server:

 HOST-TYPES = {1,2,5,10,25}

 HOST-IPS = { 500,1000,1500,2000}

 HOST-Power = 500KW

 HOST-RAM = {1 GB,2 GB,5 GB}

 HOST-BW = 1Gbps

 HOST-STORAGE = 2 GB

 HPPROLIANTML110G4XEON3040(), HPPROLIANTML110G5XEON3075()–2 Servers are used

Virtual Machine:

 VM_TYPES = 5

 VM_MIPS = {1000,500,250,100,50}

 VM_PES = 250KW

 VM_RAM = 1 GB

 VM_BW = 100Mbps

 VM_SIZE = 2.5 GB