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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2009
Hiroshi Inoue, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Inoue, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention disclose a system and a method for estimating the power consumption of virtual servers that operate in various hardware configurations and making a charge. The system consists of a resource utilization measurement unit that measures utilization of a hardware resource by an operation of a virtual server. The system also includes a conversion unit that converts the utilization of the hardware resource measured by the resource utilization measurement unit to utilization of a hardware resource in a case where the operation of the virtual server is performed in a reference server including a preset hardware configuration. The system further includes a virtual power consumption calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of the utilization in the reference server obtained by the conversion by the conversion unit, as power that can be assumed to be consumed by the operation of the virtual server, power consumption in a case where a similar operation is performed in the reference server. The system further has an accounting unit that makes a charge for the operation of the virtual server on the basis of the power consumption calculated by the virtual power consumption calculation unit. Other embodiments are also provided.