Energy aware cloud service provisioning approach for green computing environment
T. Arthi, Shahul Hamead Haja Moinudeen · 2013
As cloud computing becomes more emerging technology, there is increasing attention being paid to the energy consumption pattern across the entire information and communication technology (ICT) sector. With advent of cloud computing, computing functions and storage processing are migrating to remote resources like virtual servers stored in systems which are mostly hosted in the data centers located in various places. Virtualization technology has been used widely in modern data center in order to improve its energy efficiency. Virtual machine (VM) migration has recently emerged technique used as an essential building block for data center and storage systems, mainly due to its service provisioning and energy aware consolidation. We analysed the existing energy consumption model for various types of services in cloud computing environment and we present a new energy-aware provisioning approach by considering energy efficiency as a key factor. Our model uses pre-processed data about the service usage of cloud used for initiating the live migration. Our design encompasses the component called as trigger engine which initiates automatic migration of VM to preserve the computing environment green and energy friendly.