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A Centralized Architecture for Energy-Efficient Job Management in Data Centers

Authors:
George Perreas
Petros Lampsas

Keywords: Data Center Energy Efficiency; Energy efficient Job Management; Virtual Machine Migrations.

Abstract:
In this work, we present a centralized monitoring entity that attempts to reduce power consumption in Internet Data Centers (IDCs) by employing live Virtual Machine (VM) migrations between blade servers. To perform live VM migrations, usage statistics collected by servers are evaluated and the servers that may be offloaded are selected. VMs that belong to the servers that may be offloaded are scattered to other active servers provided that the user-perceived performance is sustained. Overall, jobs submitted by users should be consolidated to as few servers as possible and the servers that host no job can be put in stand-by or hibernate mode, thus achieving an overall power reduction. Data Center management authorities may take advantage of such a monitoring entity in order to decrease energy consumption attributed to computing, storage and networking elements of data centers.

Pages: 44 to 48

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: May 25, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-338-4

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from May 25, 2014 to May 29, 2014