Energy Reduction in Consolidated Servers through Memory-Aware Virtual Machine Scheduling

• Published in: IEEE transactions on computers Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 552 - 564
• Main Authors: Jang, Jae-Wan, Jeon, Myeongjae, Kim, Hyo-Sil, Jo, Heeseung, Kim, Jin-Soo, Maeng, Seungryoul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.04.2011; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Consolidation; Delay; DRAM energy; Energy consumption; Magnetic cores; Memory management; multicore processor; Processor scheduling; Reduction; Scheduling; Servers; virtual machine; Virtual machining

Increasing energy consumption in server consolidation environments leads to high maintenance costs for data centers. Main memory, no less than processor, is a major energy consumer in this environment. This paper proposes a technique for reducing memory energy consumption using virtual machine sched...