EAVIRA: Energy-Aware Virtual Infrastructure Reallocation Algorithm

• Denivy B. Ruck UDESC
• Maurício A. Pillon UDESC
• Charles C. Miers UDESC
• Guilherme P. Koslovski UDESC

Resumo

The elastic provisioning of Virtual Infrastructures (VIs) enables a dynamic management of cloud resources (computing and communication) in order to meet the hosted application's requirements. Thus, to perform elasticity requests, providers usually rely on reallocation mechanisms and policies. The concerns regarding the environment and the operational costs indicate energy consumption of the data centers as recurring topic in providers policies. Moreover, energy-aware provisioning is beneficial for tenants also. Recent cost models have introduced an implicit incentive to use computing and networking resources just when need to avoid high rent costs. However, reallocation and elasticity requests can unbalance the Data Center (DC) unnecessarily increasing the number of active servers. In this paper we propose EAVIRA algorithm, which takes into account the proportional sharing of CPU usage of DC servers to calculate individual usage costs to: disable idle equipments, and reallocate VIs. EAVIRA acts on online requests for elasticity configuration and performs an offline load balancing, triggered by the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider. Our experimental analysis indicates a reduction of energy consumption and an increasing on acceptance ratio of allocation requests.

Palavras-chave: Resource management, Servers, Energy consumption, Elasticity, Cloud computing, Load management, Computational modeling, IaaS, reallocation, energy, virtual infrastructures, migration, virtual machines