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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

Trading-Off Computing and Cooling Energies by VM Migration in Data Centers

Ying SONG, Xia ZHAO, Bo WANG, Yuzhong SUN

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High energy cost is a big challenge faced by the current data centers, wherein computing energy and cooling energy are main contributors to such cost. Consolidating workload onto fewer servers decreases the computing energy. However, it may result in thermal hotspots which typically consume greater cooling energy. Thus the tradeoff between computing energy decreasing and cooling energy decreasing is necessary for energy saving. In this paper, we propose a minimized-total-energy virtual machine (VM for short) migration model called C2vmMap based on efficient tradeoff between computing and cooling energies, with respect to two relationships: one for between the resource utilization and computing power and the other for among the resource utilization, the inlet and outlet temperatures of servers, and the cooling power. Regarding online resolution of the above model for better scalability, we propose a VM migration algorithm called C2vmMap_heur to decrease the total energy of a data center at run-time. We evaluate C2vmMap_heur under various workload scenarios. The real server experimental results show that C2vmMap_heur reduces up to 40.43% energy compared with the non-migration load balance algorithm. This algorithm saves up to 3x energy compared with the existing VM migration algorithm.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E101-D No.9 pp.2224-2234
Publication Date
2018/09/01
Publicized
2018/06/01
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2017EDP7329
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Fundamentals of Information Systems

Authors

Ying SONG
  Beijing Key Laboratory of Internet Culture and Digital Dissemination
Xia ZHAO
  Beijing Technology and Business University
Bo WANG
  Zhengzhou University of Light Industry
Yuzhong SUN
  CAS

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