Policy Based Power Management in Cloud Environment with Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager

Open Source Private Cloud (OSPC) is a full stack of private cloud solution based on Open Stack to help user enable and manage private cloud environment. Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager is a platform resident technology with power and thermal policies. In this paper, we introduce how to manage power in cloud computing effectively by integrating Intel Node Manager with OSPC and define this resolution as a power management policy. Live migration supported by Xen is implemented as a new policy to balance the power load in cloud computing environment. In our experiment, Prime95 is used as a benchmark to verify the effectiveness of policies. The result shows that two policies have made OSPC possible for a more stable and flexible power management resolution.