A Survey on the Use of Preferences for Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers

With the rapid development of virtualization techniques, cloud data centers allow for cost-effective, flexible, and customizable deployments applications on virtualized infrastructure. Virtual machine (VM) placement aims to assign each virtual a server in environment. VM Placement is paramount importance design centers. Typically, involves complex relations multiple factors as well local policies that govern assignment decisions. It also different constituents including administrators customers might have disparate preferences while opting solution. Thus, it often valuable return not only an optimized solution problem but reflects given constituents. In this article, we provide detailed review role recent literature placement. We examine preference representations found literature, explain their existing usage, adopted solving approaches. further discuss key challenges identify possible research opportunities better incorporate within context