Virtual machine migration as a strategy for sustainable data centers

• Guilherme Fernandes Moraes da Silva USP
• Daniel Cordeiro USP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/eradsp.2025.9715

Abstract

The growing use of geo-distributed data centers enhances cloud computing capacity but also raises energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In this work, we investigate, through simulation, scheduling algorithms applied to these data centers to reduce environmental impact. Our proposed approach explores virtual machine (VM) migration policies to identify strategies that combine performance and sustainability. We expect the experiments to support the implementation of scheduling solutions capable of minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and fostering more sustainable operations in large-scale infrastructures.

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