Abstract
It is critical to reduce electric energy consumed by servers in clusters to reduce carbon dioxide emission. Here, application processes issued by clients are performed on servers in clusters. In this paper, we take the migration approach that application processes on a server migrate to a guest server by using the live migration technologies of virtual machines. By making a virtual machine where application processes are performed migrate from a host server to a guest server, the energy consumption of the servers to perform the application processes may be reduced as discussed in our previous studies. On the other hand, it takes time for a virtual machine to migrate from a host server to a guest server, since it may take a longer time to perform application processes on the virtual machine. In this paper, we first measure migration time of a virtual machine. Then, we propose an MDMG (Maximum energy consumption Difference by virtual machine MiGration) algorithm to select a virtual machine on a host server and a guest server to which the virtual machine to migrate in order to reduce the total energy consumption of servers in a cluster. In the evaluation, we show the energy consumption of servers and the average execution time of application processes can be reduced in the MDMG algorithm.
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