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Power Consumption Reduction (Erl, Naserpour)
How can a hypervisor’s resources be guaranteed to be used efficiently to minimize data center power and cooling costs?
Problem
A hypervisor’s resources need to be used in the most efficient way possible in order to minimize data center power and cooling expenses.
Solution
The host’s capacity is utilized in the most efficient manner possible, so that the host hypervisors that are not being used are powered off.
Application
The capacities of the hosts are evaluated, virtual servers are distributed between the hosts, and the hosts that do not end up running any virtual servers enter into standby mode.
Mechanisms
Hypervisor, Live VM Migration, Virtual Infrastructure Manager
Compound Patterns
Burst In, Burst Out to Private Cloud, Burst Out to Public Cloud, Cloud Authentication, Cloud Balancing, Elastic Environment, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Isolated Trust Boundary, Multitenant Environment, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Resilient Environment, Resource Workload Management, Secure Burst Out to Private Cloud/Public Cloud, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
The Power Consumption Reduction pattern is applied (Part I).
The Power Consumption Reduction pattern is applied (Part II).
The Power Consumption Reduction pattern is applied (Part III).
This pattern is covered in CCP Module 17: Advanced Cloud Virtualization.
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