The Implementation of Virtual Networking to Enhance Performance and Reduce Network Load in an Autonomous Systems Employing Virtual Computing

摘要

The concept of virtualized networking is nothing new in a world constantly advancing its technology. However, with a push for a greener environment and the advent of hardware architectures, such as grids and cluster, has made available substantial processing power typically in a single location. The virtualized hosts discussed in this paper are part of an autonomous system (AS) used to support research and instruction. It unquestionably can save energy resources, which can help the environment and improve efficiency in the data center. At the same time, virtualization reduces IT costs of hardware and personnel. For example, with an average 100 watts per hour, this would be a savings of 800 watts per hour or 19.2 kilowatts per day. At 10 cents a kilowatt per hour, that is over $700 dollars per year. While much of the attention is aimed at computing resources, this paper also explored expansion of virtualization concepts as well as leverage networking resources.