Title: A novel power control framework in virtual resource environments

Authors: Ying Hu

Addresses: College of Computer and Communication, Hunan Institute of Engineering, Xiangtan 411104, China

Abstract: Recently, resource virtualisation technology has been widely applied in high-performance data centres. However, conventional power control techniques mainly concentrate on physical server instead of virtualised resource such virtual machine (VM). In this paper, we present a novel power control framework called virtual resource power management and control (vPMC), which applies control theory to achieve tradeoffs between power consumption and application performance. Extensive experiments are conducted to investigate the effectiveness and performance of the proposed framework. The results indicate that the vPMC framework can provide effective control on both power consumption and application performance. In addition, it can also significantly reduce the energy consumption of data centres through adaptive VM migration mechanism.

Keywords: virtual clusters; quality of service; QoS; power control; control theory; virtual resources; resource virtualisation; high-performance data centres; power management; energy consumption; virtual machines.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2016.079179

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2016 Vol.16 No.3, pp.253 - 264

Received: 03 Aug 2015
Accepted: 04 Oct 2015
Published online: 21 Sep 2016 *

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