Title: Practice and experience on deploying green datacentres for cloud computing

Authors: Peng Xiao; Dongbo Liu

Addresses: School of Computer and Communication, Hunan Institute of Engineering, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province 411104, China ' School of Computer and Communication, Hunan Institute of Engineering, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province 411104, China

Abstract: As more and more cloud applications have been developed for solving large-scale problems, the energy consumption in cloud datacentres has become an important issue that needs to be addressed before construction or deployment of such a datacentre. Unfortunately, most of the current studies on inventing some novel energy-aware techniques focused on specified aspects, and few of them take efforts on how to integrate the available energy-efficient technologies into a real-world datacentre, or how to deploy them so as to improve the energy-efficiency of a non-trivial cloud-based datacentre. In this paper, we present our practice and experience on constructing and deploying a campus cloud-based datacentre, and the major goal is to improve the energy-efficiency related metrics for this datacentre as much as possible. To do this, various available technologies have been adopted in designing our datacentre, and the experience can be referenced for those people who are planning to construct their own green-oriented IT infrastructures. Extensive experiments are conducted to evaluate the energy-efficiency of our datacentre, and the results indicate that the approaches proposed in this paper are effective to construct or deploying green-oriented large-scale datacentres.

Keywords: cloud computing; green computing; energy-efficiency; quality of service.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSD.2019.104721

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2019 Vol.22 No.1/2, pp.24 - 40

Accepted: 04 Jul 2019
Published online: 29 Jan 2020 *

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