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Authors:
Kai Spindler
Sven Reissmann
Sebastian Rieger
Keywords: Enterprise Clouds; OpenStack; Energy Efficiency; Computer Networks; Power Management
Abstract:
Enterprise cloud infrastructures and virtualization technologies constitute a growing proportion in today's data centers. For these data centers the ongoing operational costs are not negligible, especially for electricity which is also increased by cooling. Solutions that raise the energy efficiency allow to reduce these operational costs and to optimize the utilization of the data center infrastructure. The following paper presents a solution to optimize the energy efficiency by observing the current utilization parameters of compute resources and network devices and by taking appropriate actions based on this data. This optimization will be carried out by an automated instance with a comprehensive view on the data center assets, which is relocating virtual machines and optimizing the network structure. The paper presents a lightweight prototype that can be integrated in enterprise cloud environments using standard OpenStack components and application programming interfaces. By monitoring the energy consumption of resources in the environment and combining state of the art in energy-efficient cloud computing with upcoming power management techniques for compute, storage and especially network resources, new possibilities to increase the energy efficiency in enterprise clouds are introduced.
Pages: 134 to 139
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014
Publication date: July 20, 2014
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3972
ISBN: 978-1-61208-361-2
Location: Paris, France
Dates: from July 20, 2014 to July 24, 2014