Fault-Tolerance of Hierarchical Power Management in Data Center

Abstract

Power provision is coming to be the most important constraint to data center development, how to efficiently manage power consumption in the data center is urgent. For solving this problem, we designed the Request-Response Hierarchical Power Management model (RRHPM) for data center and analysed its performance in our latest work. Because failures are quite common in current data centers, in addition to performance, the fault-tolerance is another important metric of power management system. In this paper, we further explore the fault-tolerance of RRHPM for the data center. Numerical results show that the Equal Utilization Strategy has higher fault-tolerance than popular Equal Degree Strategy.