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Virtual machine power consumption measurement and management

A technology for virtual machines, power consumption, applied in the direction of electrical power measurement, data processing power, error detection/correction, etc. through the application of digital technology, which can solve problems such as lack of virtual machine power visibility

Active Publication Date: 2015-08-19
MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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However, the lack of visibility into virtual machine power usage takes away many of the benefits of server power metering available without virtualization

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[0030] In the following description of embodiments of the virtual machine power metering system and method, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, and in which are shown by way of illustration that the virtual machine power metering system and method may be implemented A specific example of each embodiment of . It is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural changes may be made without departing from the scope of the claimed subject matter.

[0031] I. Power Metering Concepts

[0032] Since no hardware power measurement device can be connected to an individual virtual machine, the virtual machine power metering system and method infers energy from resource usage. In principle, a virtual machine power metering system and method tracks resources used by each virtual machine in software, and then converts resource usage into energy by exploiting power models of individual resources.

[0033] For this approach, the ...

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Embodiments of the virtual machine power metering system and method measure the power consumption of individual virtual machines. Power meter measurements for a physical host server are converted into individual virtual machine power meters that measure the power consumption of each individual virtual machine residing on the host server. The virtual machine power consumption is computed by generating a power model using the total power consumption of the host server and resource utilization for a virtual machine. Optimal power model coefficients are computed using the power model. The energy used by the virtual machine is computed using one of two embodiments. Embodiments of the system and method also can be used to obtain the power consumption for a specific activity (such as a service, request, or search query). In addition, the virtual machine power metering can be used for virtual machine power capping to allow power oversubscription in virtualized environments.

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[0001] The patent application for this invention is an invention patent with the international application number PCT / US2011 / 026353, the international application date is February 25, 2011, and the application number entering the Chinese national phase is 201180011019.0, and the name is "Virtual Machine Power Consumption Measurement and Management" Divisional application of the application. technical field [0002] The present invention relates to the computer field, and more specifically, to virtual machine technology. Background technique [0003] Data centers, cloud computing infrastructure, computing clusters, enterprise computing tools, and high-performance computing tools are increasingly using virtual machines to isolate workloads while running them on shared physical servers. A virtual machine is an emulation of a computing device that is strictly software but behaves like a physical computing device. This means that one or more virtual machines can reside on a sing...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F11/34G06F1/32
CPCG06F2201/88G06F11/3466G06F1/3228G06F1/329G06F11/3447G06F1/3234G06F11/3409G06F2201/865G01R21/133G06F1/3206G06F11/3423Y02B60/165G06F1/3203G06F2201/815Y02D10/00
Inventor A·坎萨尔J·刘D·C·伯格A·A·巴塔查里亚
Owner MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC