Green Computing Report: Server Virtualization and Green IT Trends

This report delves into the realm of green computing, focusing on server virtualization as a key product in promoting environmentally responsible IT practices. It begins with an introduction to green computing, emphasizing its role in reducing the environmental impact of computing devices. The report then provides background information on green IT and highlights server virtualization, explaining its characteristics, usage, advantages, and disadvantages. The study emphasizes how server virtualization software enables efficient resource allocation, reduces hardware needs, and lowers energy consumption. The report also discusses current and future research areas, projecting the growth of server virtualization and its continued importance in achieving sustainable ICT growth. Finally, the report concludes by reinforcing the significance of server virtualization in minimizing energy consumption and fostering cleaner data centers, ultimately contributing to a more sustainable future.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Background......................................................................................................................................2
Selected Product..............................................................................................................................4
Characteristics of Product................................................................................................................4
Usage of the Product........................................................................................................................6
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Product................................................................................6
Current and Future Research Areas Using the Product...................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Green computing is the computers and the resources, which are eco friendly and
environmentally responsible. More broadly, this is also described as studying the design,
engineering, manufacture, use and disposal of computing devices in the way , which reduces the
impact on the environment.[1] This report aims to discuss the general background of the green IT
and some of the current products of green IT with their benefits and drawbacks. This report
discusses the characteristics of the selected products of green IT and discusses the usages of that
particular product with the current and future area of research of the product, which will help in
approaching the new trends sustainably for managing the Information and Communication
Technology.
Background
Green Computing relates to environmentally friendly, renewable technology. This
reduces both the use of fuel and electricity, and while using a machine, eliminates environmental
waste. Sustainable engineering serves the same aim for green chemistry, and is also the product's
future, rendering the company more energy effective, rendering the discarded product and
manufacturing waste easy to be biodegradable and recycle less harmful consumer material.[2]
The environment gains benefits from Green Computing. Reduced consumption of energy from
renewable technologies results in reduced levels of carbon dioxide leading to a decrease of the
fossil fuel used in transport and power plants. Resource recycling ensures less electricity is used
to generate, dispose and use of the goods. This computing is also an essential factor in terms of
keeping our environment clean and secure. [3] It is impossible to settle obsolete machines as this
machine is active with recycling, so there is much for taking place in the landfill.

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Green computing techniques also reduced overhead electricity usage and allowed full use
of the system via a technique like cloud virtualization. But developments in technology, like
expanded data processing and artificial intelligence, will limit progress in the strategies of green
computing. [4] The ever-rapid development in technology and innovation gives rise to several
aspects in which green computing can have a significant effect and tremendous benefits. The
advantages of green computing are immense, not just from the point of view of the customer, or
company, or nation, but the global benefit. Green computing aims to reduce energy needs,
pollution, and resources from how the organizations or individual employ socially friendly
technologies and the prices.
There are multiple products of Green IT, which can benefit the organization as well as the
environment in saving the energy and reducing the extra cost. [5] Some of the Green IT products
are:
 Server virtualization software
 Desktop power management
 Flat-screen monitors
 Energy-efficient cooling
 Green enterprise
 E-waste & IT asset recycling
 Going paperless
 Physical infrastructure management [6]
 Data center infrastructure
 Storage consolidation, virtualization and tiering

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Selected Product
For this study, the chosen product for Green Computing is Server virtualization software.
Server virtualization is the method in which several virtual instances are generated and
abstracted on a single computer. To divide one physical computer into several separate virtual
worlds, a system administrator utilizes the server virtualization software; that every virtual
environment may operate independently. Often the simulated worlds are called private web
servers; however, they are often recognized as clients, cases, containers, or emulations. This lets
the user operate multiple operating systems as well as several programs on a single machine on a
cloud or desktop PC. [7] The program enabling this is recognized as the hypervisor. It reduces
the energy use. It decreases the number of physical instruments, reduces the amount of energy
needed to power the machines. Only the sum of energy used to cool the device and the
atmosphere. As the amount of hardware appliances reduces, e-waste and thus industrial waste
declines tremendously. It reduces the needs of the facility. If the quantity of machinery is
decreased, the capacity needs are decreased, which ensures company will rise without the
necessity to build larger data centers. Some of the key goals of almost all types of
server virtualization are to allow the most effective usage of the device resources accessible. [8]
Virtualization is also planned for enabling more energy-efficient computing for being produced.
Processor, storage and memory resources which need to be delivered in fixed quantities dictated
by actual hardware device configurations will also be delivered with the finer granularity through
dynamically tuned VMs.
Characteristics of Product
Virtualization of servers can be used to combine staff, to save time and to have separate
user systems on one cloud. Any IT enterprise can use the server virtualization as the few

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functional ways to minimize the time spent managing specific servers; acquire expertise before
moving servers to cloud, or using more OSes and software without installing additional physical
devices. Server virtualization can often be used as the low-cost means of running cloud resources
on domain servers. This provides the redundancies where data loss occurs if the organization
hosts copies of its data on the virtualized server. Virtual servers are based on the model for guest
or host paradigms. [9] Each host runs on hardware layer practically imitating it. This process
allows the host operating system to run unchanged. This allows the admin for creating the guests
using various operating systems. The visitor has little understanding of the operating system of
the host. There are multiple characteristics of the Server Virtualization software are:
 Reduce expense to clients by raising the need for sales of the services.
 Virtual service network on an organizational scale comprising 8Gb Fiber Cable
Fabric, Multi-tiered Disk Collection, 10Gb Ethernet Fabric, and Business Level Servers.
 Proactive maintenance of the required components of the facilities including the software
management, networking storage and physical server
 To take maximum advantage of reliable resources, cooling, and facilities assistance, all
virtual servers are located in protected the data centers. [10]
 Connection of Redundant Ethernet to the network
 Reduced depreciation on managing physical infrastructure
 Recovery and backups focused on the two-week retention of the virtual machines
conducted through regular snapshots.
 Monitoring the virtualization systems for 24/7/365.
 Build Virtual Servers according to memory, GPU, storage space and approved OS
requirements for the client.

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Usage of the Product
Virtualization server software splits the actual networks into several virtual modules that
can be individually operated. Virtualization service goods, generally known as hypervisors,
are utilized by companies to segment dedicated servers into the accessible virtual instances
known as VPS (Virtual private Server). Virtual private servers generated by server virtualization
tools will run a specific operating system through the automated hosting control panel and
will be operated separately. [11] Organizations are using cloud virtualization software
for allocating the storage resources for the workload management across virtual machines.
Sometimes, virtual machines built with the server virtualization software are much more stable
and efficient than the unpartitioned servers to handle. Organizations, which house and maintain
the servers, incorporate cloud virtualization tools internally for reducing the resource strains. In
fact, the cloud virtualization platform is widely utilized by networking service providers
for providing their customers with VPS hosting services. The software enables users to divide
actual servers into different simulated instances this allows simple monitoring of distributed
virtual worlds Server virtualization software provides links to an automated or the third party
control panel from which central servers can be controlled. With one swift movement,
server virtualization tries to address the concerns. [12] An administrator can turn one physical
computer into several virtual machines, utilizing specially built software. Every computer server
functions like a special physical unit, able to operate its own Software. In principle, the
organization might build sufficiently computer servers to utilize all the computing power of a
system, but this is not exactly the right idea in reality.
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Product
Advantages of Server Virtualization Software

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 It saves money on expense of IT. When the user divides one physical server into multiple
virtual machines, multiple instances of the operating system will be installed, run and
controlled on the same physical server at once. More physical resources mean reduced
investment on those systems. [13]
 It reduces the amount of physical servers that a business has to provide at its premises.
This is always a smart idea to conserve energy, no matter the size of the business.
 Cuts in energy usage as power consumption is rising in physical servers. This is
especially relevant, given the movement towards preparing and adopting green IT.
 It creates opportunities for autonomous consumers. This is especially useful to keep
everything distinct for the purposes like software testing. [14]
 It provides web hosting at competitive rates. When thousands of servers may fit on the
single computer, server distribution is improved at practically no extra expense.
Disadvantages of Server Virtualization Software
 Security is one of the main concerns based on the usages of the software. Although
standardized management architecture in a virtualized system allows it easy to handle
data, broadly speaking, the virtual machine may be on the current physical cloud as
another organization and that might open the organization or individual up to risks.[14]
 Virtualization of servers might be worth anything, but no one has ever said it is easy.
Even IT pros that are highly comfortable in their abilities to handle and comprehend real
servers require more time to better appreciate how the virtualized system should function.
[15] To learn how the modern system functions, it requires a little bit of testing the
program and the users will know that not all programs will run well in the virtualized
environment.

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 Server Virtualization definitely means significant improvements to the network as a
whole. A new difficulty layer is introduced, so it may create new issues. The biggest
challenge, however, is that if anything does not work as it should, it may take some extra
time to locate the cause of the problem. For this server virtualization drawback, I have yet
another case.
Current and Future Research Areas Using the Product
During the early 2000s, cloud virtualization tools broke out into the scene. When
companies understood the advantages by consolidating several physical machines on one virtual
machine, the meteoric growth by the server virtualization software, the industry leader came
along. The days of poor system usage levels were gone, with one actual computer running one
device. Virtualization of servers remains an area of IT development. According to the Market
Research Future, the demand for server virtualization is projected to rise by 2023 at about $8
billion, 7 per cent of CAGR (Compound annual growth rate) between 2017 and 2023. This is a
demand that is going to almost double in that period.
Understand that virtualization is not a new idea in itself. Though, server virtualization
was developed only in the late 1990s. This took a little while in catching on, but growth of the
server virtualization has been exponential particularly in past years. Companies noticed that they
were wasting money, so most embraced the virtualization technologies as a way to simplify the
technological operations of their companies. Virtualization of servers is nowadays more a simple
prerequisite than the advanced concept. [16] With this in mind, expertise in the server
virtualization as the career step may not place any person or organization alone in the high
demand although this is still evolving. Getting comfortable with applying virtualization, though,
will set the person or the organization up for whatever comes next.

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Conclusion
Throughout this paper, a study has been conducted on the effect on energy quality of the
server virtualization on supporting green computing throughout achieving ICT growth. The goal
of this study was to determine the effect of virtualization on resilience of the climate. O n the
basis of the goal under study, the virtualization is a crucial technique to minimize energy
consumption and turn data centers cleaner. In the long term, it conserves the world by the
amount of emissions released to the environment as the pollutants induce the phenomenon of
global warming. Server Virtualization has thus arisen as one of the most significant architecture
criteria for digital computer systems to encourage renewable computer and the environmental
sustainability.

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