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power consumption of virtual machines with esxtop

Hi,

I'd like to estimate power consumption of virtual machines. The purpose of the work is a feasability study so there is a large error tolerance for the power measurement values as long as the assumptions underlying the power model are transparent. Some research projects have developed such models for Xen but I'm not aware of work for VMWare systems.

I came across a presentation of esxtop which mentions power monitoring of VMs http://www.vmworld.com/docs/DOC-5101 by Krishna Raja and Haiping Yang but I could not find any additional information about it. I would like to know how reliable the reported power measurement values are.

Best regards and thanks for your help

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