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[hitesh wadekar <hitesh.wadekar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Szymon,

This is a really great that you are working for energy efficiency
datacenter. whatever the topics you mentioned that really affects for
efficient data center. I would like to add some points on this. You should
consider Quantum project to deploy and research for datacenter. Distributed
networks play an important role in the data center. May be you can consider
OpenVswitch + OpenStack-Quantum+ OpenStack-Nova combination infrastructure.

Here are some news that I came across, Clarkson University is going to
build energy efficient datacenter at near New York. You can see this news
at
http://northcountrynow.com/business/clarkson-takes-partners-develop-efficient-data-centers-050575.
As far as I know that Prof. Jeanna Matthews is working for it.

I am not sure whether they are doing this for OpenStack Cloud. But, You can
ask them what exactly they are doing. You can contact these persons, they
might redirect you to respective person. I am putting them in CC

1. Dr. Todd Deshane,
2. Mr. Patrick wilbur

For Quantum, may be Dan Wendlandt and me can help you to see what parameter
you should consider for distributed network Data Center.

Its really great that somebody working on OpenStack efficient Data Center.

In the mean time, If I find some articles on it then I will forward to you.

Thanks,
Hitesh Wadekar


On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Szymon Grzybowski <semyazz@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Me and my colleague are doing research about openstack and energy
> efficiency during part of our master thesis about cloud computing. And
> mayby we would like to write something inside nova-scheduler to dynamically
> manage vms from cloud administrator's point of view. the general idea is to
> automate process of vm migration to suite current policy. For example, we
> have 10 servers in cloud with nova-compute, each is capable of running 5
> vm. I'd like to run 20 vms. Aaccording to current nova-scheduler (filters),
> each server will run 2 VMs, but it would be cheaper (this is policy defined
> by administrator) if we run all of them on just 4 servers. of course, cloud
> has to keep proper QoS rate (response time etc.). This is general idea.
>
> Energy efficiency is really popular topic, when we talk about
> servers,datacenters and virtualization, but I can't find any papers about
> it in context of openstack. Are there any projects doing such researches or
> articles? in fact it would be really surprising if there is nothing about
> energy efficiency in context of openstack.
>
> Cheers,
>
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