Methods and systems to optimize data center power consumption
AssigneeVMware, Inc.
InventorsKUMAR GAURAV, HEMANTH KUMAR PANNEM, BHASKARDAS KAMBIVELU
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Abstract
Methods and systems of determining an optimum power-consumption profile for virtual machines running in a data center are disclosed. In one aspect, a power-consumption profile of a virtual machine and a unit-rate profile of electrical power cost over a period are received. The methods determine an optimum power-consumption profile based on the power-consumption profile and the unit-rate profile. The optimum power-consumption profile may be used reschedule the virtual machine over the period.
Claims18
A system to schedule virtual machines comprising:
- one or more processors;
- one or more data-storage devices;
- and
- a routine stored in the data-storage devices and executed using the one or more processors, the routine
- determining an optimum power-consumption profile based on a power-consumption profile of a virtual machine over a period of time and a unit-rate profile of electrical power cost over the period;
- and
- rescheduling the virtual machine over the period with a workload having the optimum power-consumption profile.
A method of reducing power consumption of data center comprising:
- determining an optimum power-consumption profile based on a power-consumption profile of a virtual machine over a period of time and a unit-rate profile of electrical power cost over the period;
- and
- rescheduling the virtual machine over the period with a workload having the optimum power-consumption profile.
A computer-readable medium encoded with machine-readable instructions that implement a method carried out by one or more processors of a computer system to perform the operations of
- determining an optimum power-consumption profile based on a power-consumption profile of a virtual machine over a period of time and a unit-rate profile of electrical power cost over the period;
- and
- rescheduling the virtual machine over the period with a workload having the optimum power-consumption profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.