Design of an Energy Efficiency Model and Architecture for Cloud Management using Prediction Models

In this paper, we present a new energy efficiency model and architecture for cloud management based on a prediction model with Gaussian Mixture Models. The methodology relies on a distributed agent model and the validation will be performed on OpenStack. This paper intends to be a position paper, the implementation and experimental run will be conducted in future work. The design concept leverages the prediction model by providing a full architecture binding the resource demands, the predictions and the actual cloud environment (Openstack). The prediction analysis feeds the power-aware agents that run on the compute nodes in order to turn the nodes into sleep mode when the load state is low to reduce the energy consumption of the data center.