Abstract: Virtual Machine Packing Algorithms for Lower Power Consumption

Abstract

VM (Virtual Machine)-based flexible capacity man- agement is an effective scheme to reduce total power consumption in the data center. However, there have been the following issues, tradeoff of power-saving and user experience, decision of VM packing in feasible calculation time and collision avoidance of VM migration processes. In order to resolve these issues, we propose a matching-based and a greedy-type VM packing algorithm, which enables to decide a suitable VM packing plan in polynomial time. The experiments evaluate not only a basic performance, but also a feasibility of the algorithms by comparing with optimization solvers. The feasibility experiment uses a super computer trace data prepared by Center for Computational Sciences of Univer- sity of Tsukuba. The basic performance experiment shows that the algorithms reduce total power consumption by between 18% and 50%.