Increasing Cloud power efficiency through consolidation techniques

In the recent years, Cloud computing is emerging as the next big revolution of both computer networks and web provisioning. Due to its enormous promises, several vendors, such as Amazon and IBM, started designing, developing, and deploying Cloud solutions to optimize the usage of their own data cent...

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Published in2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) pp. 129 - 134
Main Authors Corradi, A., Fanelli, M., Foschini, L.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2011
Subjects
Cloud computing
Computer architecture
Concurrent computing
Monitoring
Power demand
Power Saving
Resource management
Servers
VM Consolidation
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Summary:In the recent years, Cloud computing is emerging as the next big revolution of both computer networks and web provisioning. Due to its enormous promises, several vendors, such as Amazon and IBM, started designing, developing, and deploying Cloud solutions to optimize the usage of their own data centers. Unfortunately, several management issues of the Cloud are still open and deserve additional research. Among them, and fuelled by the emerging Green Computing research, Cloud architectures have to consolidate virtual machines in the minimal number of physical servers to reduce the run-time power consumption. In this paper, we present a project on power saving through server consolidation conducted at the IBM Innovation Centre in Dublin. Our experimental results, collected on a real testbed, show that server consolidation can effectively save energy, while introducing minimum performance degradation.
ISBN:9781457706806
1457706806
ISSN:1530-1346
DOI:10.1109/ISCC.2011.5984005