COPA: Highly Cost-Effective Power Back-Up for Green Datacenters

Traditional datacenters employ costly diesel generators (DG) and uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) to back up power. However, some or even all racks of a green datacenter can still be powered by renewable energy during grid power outages. This makes the utilization of the DGs and UPSs in green datacenters significantly lower than in traditional datacenters. In this paper, we propose a highly cost-effective power back-up (COPA) approach for green datacenters by leveraging the availability characteristics of renewable energy as well as grid power outages. COPA contributes three new techniques. The first technique, called least UPS capacity planning, determines the least rated power capability and runtime of the UPSs to guarantee the normal operations of a green datacenter during grid power outages. The second technique, named cooperative UPS/renewable power supply, employs UPS and renewable energy at the same time to supply power to each rack when grid power fails. The last one, dubbed renewable-energy-aware dynamic power management, controls the power consumption dynamically based on the available capacity of renewable energy and UPS. We build an experimental cluster consisting of 10 servers, and use four representative benchmarks as well as verified data about the availability characteristics of solar and wind energy to evaluate COPA. The results show that COPA reduces 47 percent and 70 percent of the power back-up cost for a solar energy powered datacenter and a wind energy powered datacenter, respectively. Moreover, COPA guarantees the application's Service Level Agreement (SLA) for at least 20 minutes (over 79 percent outages) and 56 minutes on average while enabling the back-up power to last for at least 2 hours and for 3 hours on average, which cannot be achieved by other under-provisioning power back-up approaches.

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