Title :
Energy-Efficient Virtual Machine Consolidation
Author :
Graubner, Pablo ; Schmidt, Matthias ; Freisleben, Bernd
Author_Institution :
University of Marburg, Germany
Abstract :
A novel approach to virtual machine (VM) consolidation, based on energy-efficient storage migration and live VM migration, is implemented using Eucalyptus, an open source clone of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Several experiments demonstrate the potential energy savings.
Keywords :
Cloud computing; Economics; Energy efficiency; Energy storage; VIrtual machines; cloud computing; energy efficiency; information technology; virtualization;
Journal_Title :
IT Professional
DOI :
10.1109/MITP.2012.48
