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A data centre is a large centralized collection of IT infrastructure (servers, databases, application software etc.) for business functions. Analysis of the servers in a data centre with respect to their utilization characteristics is important for effective management the IT infrastructure - e.g., for reducing costs, improving reliability of business operations and capacity planning. Already saturated servers can crash with even a slight increase in workload and better usage of underutilized servers can save money and power. In this paper, we formalize several business questions related to utilization of servers in a data centre: already saturated, near saturation, under-utilized and interesting utilization patterns. We provide algorithms that use rigorous statistical techniques to automatically identify servers that satisfy such conditions. We present the results of utilization analysis of a real data centre.
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Palshikar, G.K., Ahuja, A.L., Vin, H.M. (2012). Utilization Analysis of Servers in a Data Centre. In: Kannan, R., Andres, F. (eds) Data Engineering and Management. ICDEM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6411. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27872-3_26
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