Energy-aware virtual infrastructure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10101787-B1
Application number	US-201113076747-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Mar 31, 2011
Priority date	Mar 31, 2011
Publication date	Oct 16, 2018
Grant date	Oct 16, 2018

Abstract

Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and computer program product for determining a share of power consumption by an application executing on a server. The method includes obtaining metrics relating to operation of the server and obtaining metrics relating to server resource utilization attributable to the application. A transformation is then performed using the metrics relating to operation of the server and server resource utilization attributable to the application to determine the respective share of power consumption by the application executing on the server. Additionally, greenhouse-gases attributable to the application also may be calculated.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method conducted by one or more processors for determining a share of power consumption attributable to a tenant virtual machine hosted by a virtual machine host hosting a plurality of virtual machines, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a network manager apparatus from the virtual machine host, compute-level, network-level, and storage-level metrics relating to operation of the virtual machine host, including:
a first utilization of a CPU of the virtual machine host (U ESX );
a second utilization of the CPU of the virtual machine host attributable to the tenant virtual machine (U VMI );
a total power consumption of the CPU of the virtual machine host at the first utilization (P U ); and
a maximum power consumption of the virtual machine host at a full CPU utilization (P MAX );

obtaining, by the network manager apparatus from the virtual machine host, metrics relating to virtual machine host resource utilization attributable to the tenant virtual machine;
computing, by the network manager apparatus, the share of power consumption attributable to the tenant virtual machine, excluding power consumption attributable to overhead of the virtual machine host hosting the tenant virtual machine, (P VMI ) according to the equation:

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Assignees

• Bailey Daniel V
• Chen Qiyan
• Masson Robert B
• Wang Tianqing
• Zhang Yun
• Emc Ip Holding Co Llc

Inventors

• Bailey Daniel V
• Chen Qiyan
• Masson Robert B
• Wang Tianqing
• Zhang Yun

Classifications

• G06F1/329

  by task scheduling · CPC title

• G06F9/5077

  Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources (specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455) · CPC title

• G06F1/3206 Primary

  Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality · CPC title

• G06F2209/508

  Monitor · CPC title

• G06F9/5094

  where the allocation takes into account power or heat criteria (power management in computers in general G06F1/3203; thermal management in computers in general G06F1/206) · CPC title