Network traffic-based automatic optimized migration from physical to virtualized cloud environment with UCM tool

Cloud computing provides virtualized resources as a service over the Internet. Migrating workload to virtualized cloud environment will benefit their owners on low cost, as well as dynamic scalability and performance. In this paper, we address the solutions on the migration challenge. An extensible and automatic migration framework is presented and implemented by the tool UCM which has been proved to reduce 90% cost in term of time. Workload migration to cloud environment is also a good timing for optimization. Despite the traditional capacity planning method, this paper proposes network traffic is critical dimension to be considered for migration optimization. The experiments illustrate the effective of the proposed method and tool. ©2009 IEEE.