ENTERPRISE NETWORK REDESIGN THROUGH SERVER CONSOLIDATION

Abeer Al-Fadhel, Paulvanna N. Marimuthu, Sami J. Habib

2012

Abstract

In this paper, we have explored the utilization of existing servers within an enterprise information network (EIN), and we have proposed redesign operations on servers to identify and remove the low-utilized servers. The low-utilized servers consume unnecessary power and increase the operational and maintenance cost. The removal of low-utilized server is viewed as an EIN redesign problem, which removes the low-utilized servers within the EIN and re-distributes the clients of the purged servers to the remaining servers, thereby reducing a portion of expenditure on maintenance and operation. We have proposed three approaches on distributing the clients of removed servers and the approaches are; single server pure random distribution, selective distribution and multiple servers pure random distribution. We have employed Simulated Annealing to search for best possible random server/servers in order to distribute the workload of the removed server, thereby improving the utilization of the remaining servers. The simulation results for a given EIN with 10 servers and 25 clusters show that our proposed server consolidation approaches improve the initial average server utilization of around 25% to 60%, 68.5%, and 90% respectively in the proposed three methods.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Al-Fadhel A., N. Marimuthu P. and J. Habib S. (2012). ENTERPRISE NETWORK REDESIGN THROUGH SERVER CONSOLIDATION . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-8425-97-3, pages 186-191. DOI: 10.5220/0003854201860191

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores12,
author={Abeer Al-Fadhel and Paulvanna N. Marimuthu and Sami J. Habib},
title={ENTERPRISE NETWORK REDESIGN THROUGH SERVER CONSOLIDATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2012},
pages={186-191},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003854201860191},
isbn={978-989-8425-97-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - ENTERPRISE NETWORK REDESIGN THROUGH SERVER CONSOLIDATION
SN - 978-989-8425-97-3
AU - Al-Fadhel A.
AU - N. Marimuthu P.
AU - J. Habib S.
PY - 2012
SP - 186
EP - 191
DO - 10.5220/0003854201860191