Energy-Efficiency in Cloud Data Centers

2013 ◽  
pp. 241-263
Author(s):  
Burak Kantarci ◽  
Hussein T. Mouftah
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
High Energy ◽  
It Services ◽  
Data Center Network ◽  
Cloud Data

Cloud computing aims to migrate IT services to distant data centers in order to reduce the dependency of the services on the limited local resources. Cloud computing provides access to distant computing resources via Web services while the end user is not aware of how the IT infrastructure is managed. Besides the novelties and advantages of cloud computing, deployment of a large number of servers and data centers introduces the challenge of high energy consumption. Additionally, transportation of IT services over the Internet backbone accumulates the energy consumption problem of the backbone infrastructure. In this chapter, the authors cover energy-efficient cloud computing studies in the data center involving various aspects such as: reduction of processing, storage, and data center network-related power consumption. They first provide a brief overview of the existing approaches on cool data centers that can be mainly grouped as studies on virtualization techniques, energy-efficient data center network design schemes, and studies that monitor the data center thermal activity by Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The authors also present solutions that aim to reduce energy consumption in data centers by considering the communications aspects over the backbone of large-scale cloud systems.

scholarly journals Survey on Energy Efficiency in Cloud Computing

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Lakshmi Digra ◽  
Sharanjeet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Energy Requirements ◽  
International Level ◽  
German Data

Data centers are serious, energy-hungry infrastructures that can run large scale Internet based services. Energy ingesting representations are essential in designing and improving energy-efficient operations to reduce excessive energy consumption in data centers. This paper presents a survey on Energy efficiency in data centers, importance of energy efficiency. It also describes the increasing demands for data center in worldwide and the reasons for data centers energy inefficient? In this paper we define the challenges for implementing changes in data centers and explain why and how the energy requirements of data centers are growing. After that we compare the German data center market at international level and we see the energy consumption of data centers and servers in Germany from 2010 -2016.

An Energy-Efficient Resource Scheduling Algorithm for Cloud Computing based on Resource Equivalence Optimization

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Mao ◽  
De Yu Qi ◽  
Wei Wei Lin ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Ye Da Li
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Resource Scheduling ◽  
Constraint Satisfaction Problems ◽  
Cloud Data Center ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Efficient Resource

With the rapid growth of energy consumption in global data centers and IT systems, energy optimization has become an important issue to be solved in cloud data center. By introducing heterogeneous energy constraints of heterogeneous physical servers in cloud computing, an energy-efficient resource scheduling model for heterogeneous physical servers based on constraint satisfaction problems is presented. The method of model solving based on resource equivalence optimization is proposed, in which the resources in the same class are pruning treatment when allocating resource so as to reduce the solution space of the resource allocation model and speed up the model solution. Experimental results show that, compared with DynamicPower and MinPM, the proposed algorithm (EqPower) not only improves the performance of resource allocation, but also reduces energy consumption of cloud data center.

scholarly journals An Energy-Efficient Task Scheduling Mechanism with Switching On/Sleep Mode of Servers in Virtualized Cloud Data Centers

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Chunxia Yin ◽  
Jian Liu ◽  
Shunfu Jin
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Task Scheduling ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Sleep Mode ◽  
Cloud Data Center ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Data Centers ◽  
Response Performance

In recent years, the energy consumption of cloud data centers has continued to increase. A large number of servers run at a low utilization rate, which results in a great waste of power. To save more energy in a cloud data center, we propose an energy-efficient task-scheduling mechanism with switching on/sleep mode of servers in the virtualized cloud data center. The key idea is that when the number of idle VMs reaches a specified threshold, the server with the most idle VMs will be switched to sleep mode after migrating all the running tasks to other servers. From the perspective of the total number of tasks and the number of servers in sleep mode in the system, we establish a two-dimensional Markov chain to analyse the proposed energy-efficient mechanism. By using the method of the matrix-geometric solution, we mathematically estimate the energy consumption and the response performance. Both numerical and simulated experiments show that our proposed energy-efficient mechanism can effectively reduce the energy consumption and guarantee the response performance. Finally, by constructing a cost function, the number of VMs hosted on each server is optimized.

scholarly journals A comprehensive review of energy efficiency in cloud computing environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.29) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Jayasimha S R ◽  
Usha J ◽  
Srivani Iyengar S G
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Data Center ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
It Services ◽  
Cloud Data Center ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
It Resources

High energy consumption in the cloud has become a huge problem in the data center. Energy represents direct significant cost in the operation of the data center. In Information Technology, infrastructure, Internet applications are in more demand. Cloud computing provides IT resources in the form of infrastructure, platform and application by providing services through the Internet Technology. This leads to more energy being consumed as cloud is used to provide IT services from the IT resources to the IT industry and to the Organizations. To analyze power consumed in the data center, applications are deployed in cloud and tested using different workload conditions. Virtualization depicts more energy utilization in the cloud data center. In this paper discussed about the comparison of cloud and cloud computing, cloud type providers, component performance through secured shell. Identified the various levels of energy consumptions in the cloud. the different techniques which is used to reduce the power consumption in the server and workload consolidation using various parameters are considered.  

scholarly journals Flexibility-Based Energy and Demand Management in Data Centers: A Case Study for Cloud Computing

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 3301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Basmadjian
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Demand Response ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Power Demand ◽  
It Services

The power demand (kW) and energy consumption (kWh) of data centers were augmented drastically due to the increased communication and computation needs of IT services. Leveraging demand and energy management within data centers is a necessity. Thanks to the automated ICT infrastructure empowered by the IoT technology, such types of management are becoming more feasible than ever. In this paper, we look at management from two different perspectives: (1) minimization of the overall energy consumption and (2) reduction of peak power demand during demand-response periods. Both perspectives have a positive impact on total cost of ownership for data centers. We exhaustively reviewed the potential mechanisms in data centers that provided flexibilities together with flexible contracts such as green service level and supply-demand agreements. We extended state-of-the-art by introducing the methodological building blocks and foundations of management systems for the above mentioned two perspectives. We validated our results by conducting experiments on a lab-grade scale cloud computing data center at the premises of HPE in Milano. The obtained results support the theoretical model, by highlighting the excellent potential of flexible service level agreements in Green IT: 33% of overall energy savings and 50% of power demand reduction during demand-response periods in the case of data center federation.

scholarly journals SDN Based Energy Efficient Cloud Data Center Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 4250-4256
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Data Center Networks ◽  
Cloud Data Center ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Cloud Data Centers

Cloud computing has led to the tremendous growth of IT organizations, which serves as the means of delivering services to large number of consumers globally, by providing anywhere, anytime easy access to resources and services. The primary concern over the increasing energy consumption by cloud data centers is mainly due to the massive emission of greenhouse gases, which contaminate the atmosphere and tend to worsen the environmental conditions. The major part of huge energy consumption comes from large servers, high speed storage devices and cooling equipment, present in cloud data centers. These serve as the basis for fulfilling the increasing need for computing resources. These in turn bestow additional cost of resources. The goal is to focus on energy savings through effective utilization of resources. This necessitates the need for developing a green-aware, energy-efficient framework for cloud data center networks. The Software Defined Networking (SDN) are chosen as they aid in studying the behaviour of networks from the overall perspective of software layer, rather than decisions from each individual device, as in case of conventional networks. The central objective of this paper is dedicated to survey on various existing SDN based energy efficient cloud data center networks.

Novel Resource Allocation Algorithm for Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing in Heterogeneous Environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Wei Lin ◽  
Liang Tan ◽  
James Z. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Bin Packing ◽  
Constraint Satisfaction Problem ◽  
Cloud Data Center ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Heterogeneous Cloud

Energy efficiency is one of the most important design considerations for a cloud data center. Recent approaches to the energy-efficient resource management for data centers usually model the problem as a bin packing problem with the goal of minimizing the number of physical machines (PMs) employed. However, minimizing the number of PMs may not necessarily minimize the energy consumption in a heterogeneous cloud environment. To address the problem, this paper models the resource allocation problem in a heterogeneous cloud data center as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). By solving this constraint satisfaction problem, an optimal resource allocation scheme, which includes a virtual machine provision algorithm and a virtual machine packing algorithm, is designed to minimize the energy consumption in a virtualized heterogeneous cloud data center. Performance studies show that this proposed new scheme outperforms the existing bin-packing based approaches in terms of energy consumption in heterogeneous cloud data centers.

Minimization of Energy Using Heuristic Resource Allocation and Migration for Cloud Computing

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Manjunatha S. ◽  
Suresh L.
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Cooling Systems ◽  
Operational Costs ◽  
Cloud Computing Service ◽  
And Migration

Data center is a cost-effective infrastructure for storing large volumes of data and hosting large-scale service applications. Cloud computing service providers are rapidly deploying data centers across the world with a huge number of servers and switches. These data centers consume significant amounts of energy, contributing to high operational costs. Thus, optimizing the energy consumption of servers and networks in data centers can reduce operational costs. In a data center, power consumption is mainly due to servers, networking devices, and cooling systems, and an effective energy-saving strategy is to consolidate the computation and communication into a smaller number of servers and network devices and then power off as many unneeded servers and network devices as possible.

Advances in Dynamic Virtual Machine Management for Cloud Data Centers

2017 ◽  
pp. 91-114
Author(s):  
Rashmi Rai ◽  
G. Sahoo
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Economic Modeling ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Virtual Machine Migration ◽  
Carbon Footprints ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Computing Services

The ever-rising demand for computing services and the humongous amount of data generated everyday has led to the mushrooming of power craving data centers across the globe. These large-scale data centers consume huge amount of power and emit considerable amount of CO2.There have been significant work towards reducing energy consumption and carbon footprints using several heuristics for dynamic virtual machine consolidation problem. Here we have tried to solve this problem a bit differently by making use of utility functions, which are widely used in economic modeling for representing user preferences. Our approach also uses Meta heuristic genetic algorithm and the fitness is evaluated with the utility function to consolidate virtual machine migration within cloud environment. The initial results as compared with existing state of art shows marginal but significant improvement in energy consumption as well as overall SLA violations.

scholarly journals ENERGY EFFICIENT LOAD BALANCING FOR CLOUD DATA CENTER

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Amey Rivankar ◽  
Anusooya G
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Load Balancing ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Cloud Data Center ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Efficient Resource ◽  
Cloud Data Centers ◽  
Near Future

Cloud computing is the latest trend in large-scale distributed computing. It provides diverse services on demand to distributive resources such asservers, software, and databases. One of the challenging problems in cloud data centers is to manage the load of different reconfigurable virtual machines over one another. Thus, in the near future of cloud computing field, providing a mechanism for efficient resource management will be very significant. Many load balancing algorithms have been already implemented and executed to manage the resources efficiently and adequately. The objective of this paper is to analyze shortcomings of existing algorithms and implement a new algorithm which will give optimized load balancingresult.

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