Auto-scaling provision basing on workload prediction in the virtualized data center

With the development in the Cloud datacenters, the purpose of the efficient resource allocation is to meet the demand of the users instantly with the minimum rent cost. Thus, the elastic resource allocation strategy is usually combined with the prediction technology. This article proposes a novel predict method combination forecast technique, including both exponential smoothing (ES) and auto-regressive and polynomial fitting (PF) model. The aim of combination prediction is to achieve an efficient forecast technique according to the periodic and random feature of the workload and meet the application service level agreement (SLA) with the minimum cost. Moreover, the ES prediction with PSO algorithm gives a fine-grained scaling up and down the resources combining the heuristic algorithm in the future. APWP would solve the periodical or hybrid fluctuation of the workload in the cloud data centers. Finally, experiments improve that the combined prediction model meets the SLA with the better precision accuracy with the minimum renting cost.