Green Cloud Computing: Sustainable Architectures and Practices for Large-Scale Private Clouds

Abstract

Green cloud computing is a paradigm change in the management of the infrastructure of large institutions in the field of the private cloud, which incorporates the principles of sustainability into the architecture, management of operations, and the lifecycle of hardware. The shift to being environmentally-friendly cloud computing covers various technical areas such as virtualization, serverless computing, geographical load balancing, and tiered storage solutions that, when combined, result in the exploitation of resources, minimization of energy consumption. Carbon-conscious workload scheduling matches the tasks in computational workloads to the availability of renewable energy by using highly advanced algorithms that ensure that performance objectives are met with minimum impact on the environment. Adopting renewable energy sources would require special scheduling and feedback control solutions that would ensure a variable power supply without affecting the quality of services provided. The lifecycle management of hardware is not limited to procurement but strategic repurposing, component-level maintenance, and sophisticated monitoring solutions that would allow organizations to maximize the operational capacity as well as environmental impact of infrastructure lifecycles. With the joint application of these technical strategies, it becomes possible to have sustainable private cloud architectures in which performance, reliability, cost, and environmental factors are considered.