Towards a green cluster through dynamic remapping of virtual machines

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 469-477

  Liao, Xiaofei ^a   Jin, Hai ^a   Liu, Haikun ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

GreenMap; Live migration; Power management; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

DATA CENTERS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GREENMAP; LARGE CLUSTERS; LIMITING FACTORS; LIVE MIGRATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PERFORMANCE CONSTRAINTS; PERFORMANCE PENALTIES; POWER MANAGEMENTS; REMAPPING; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; RUNTIMES; SAVE ENERGY; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80053623764     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2011.04.013     Document Type: Article

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