Storage modeling for power estimation
Miriam Allalouf, Yuriy Arbitman, Michael Factor, Ronen I. Kat, Kalman Meth, Dalit Naor · 2009
Power consumption is a major issue in today's datacenters. Storage typically comprises a significant percentage of datacenter power. Thus, understanding, managing, and reducing storage power consumption is an essential aspect of any efforts that address the total power consumption of datacenters. We developed a scalable power modeling method that estimates the power consumption of storage workloads. The modeling concept is based on identifying the major workload contributors to the power consumed by the disk arrays.