Energy Efficient Resource Provisioning with VM Migration Heuristic for Disaggregated Server Design

This article introduces an energy efficient heuristic that performs resource provisioning and Virtual Machine (VM) migration in the Disaggregated Server (DS) schema. The DS is a promising paradigm for future data centers where servers’ components are disaggregated at the hardware unit levels and resources of similar type are combined in type respective pools, such as processing pools, memory pools and IO pools. We examined 1000 VM requests that demand various processing, memory and IO requirements. Requests have exponentially distributed inter arrival time and with uniformly distributed service duration periods. Resources occupied by a certain VM are released when the VM finishes its service duration. The heuristic optimises VMs allocation and dynamically migrates existing VMs to occupy newly released energy efficient resources. We assess the energy efficiency of the heuristic by applying increasing service duration periods. The results of the numerical simulation indicate that our power savings can reach up to 55% when compared to our previous study where VM service duration is infinite and resources are not released.