Paper Info
Title
An experimental methodology to evaluate energy efficiency and performance in an enterprise virtualized environment
Abstract
omputing servers generally have a narrow dynamic power range. For instance, even completely idle servers consume between 50% and 70% of their peak power. Since the usage rate of the server has the main influence on its power consumption, energy-efficiency is achieved whenever the utilization of the servers that are powered on reaches its peak. For this purpose, enterprises generally adopt the following technique: consolidate as many workloads as possible via virtualization in a minimum amount of servers (i.e. maximize utilization) and power down the ones that remain idle (i.e. reduce power consumption). However, such approach can severely impact servers' performance and reliability. In this paper, we propose a methodology to determine the ideal values for power consumption and utilization for a server without performance degradation. We accomplish this through a series of experiments using two typical types of workloads commonly found in enterprises: TPC-H and SPECpower ssj2008 benchmarks. We use the first to measure the amount of queries responded successfully per hour for different numbers of users (i.e. Throughput@Size) in the VM. Moreover, we use the latter to measure the power consumption and number of operations successfully handled by a VM at different target loads. We conducted experiments varying the utilization level and number of users for different VMs and the results show that it is possible to reach the maximum value of power consumption for a server, without experiencing performance degradations when running indi- vidual, or mixing workloads.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2568088.2568099
ICPE
Keywords
Field
DocType
utilization level,narrow dynamic power range,power consumption,different target load,different vms,experimental methodology,performance degradation,peak power,enterprise virtualized environment,idle server,impact server,energy efficiency,different number,performance engineering
Virtualization,Performance engineering,Efficient energy use,Idle,Server,Dynamic demand,SPECpower,Engineering,Operating system,Power consumption
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
18
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jesus Omana Iglesias1184.06
Philip Perry235329.95
Liam Murphy381174.94
Teodora Sandra Buda4267.50
James Thorburn5264.11