A Survey and Comparison of Various Cloud Simulators Available for Cloud Environment

Abstract: Cloud computing is new technology with its ease of access and a variety of applications. If offers various types of services to the user, such as software as a service, platform as a service and hardware as a service or infrastructure as a service. The deployment of real cloud for commercial use is quite expensive. Therefore, various kinds of simulators such as CloudSim, GroudSim, CDOSim, GreenCloud are available in the market for cloud environment. In this paper, we have done a study and analysis of various simulators available for cloud computing.

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Services, Features, Advantages, Cloud Simulator, Comparison