Concerning the low server utilization and complicated energy management caused by block random placement strategy in distributed file systems, the vector of the visiting feature on data block was built to depict the behavior of the random block accessing. K-means algorithm was adopted to do the clustering calculation according to the calculation result, then the datanodes were divided into multiple regions to store different cluster data blocks. The data blocks were dynamic reconfigured according to the clustering calculation results when the system load is low. The unnecessary datanodes could sleep to reduce the energy consumption. The flexible set of distance parameters between clusters made the strategy be suitable for different scenarios that has different requests for the energy consumption and utilization. Compared with hot-cold zoning strategies, the mathematical analysis and experimental results prove that the proposed method has a higher energy saving efficiency, the energy consumption reduces by 35% to 38%.

The emergence of RAMCloud has improved user experience of Online Data-Intensive (OLDI) applications. However, its energy consumption is higher than traditional cloud data centers. An energy-efficient strategy for disks under this architecture was put forward to solve this problem. Firstly, the fitness function and roulette wheel selection which belong to genetic algorithm were introduced to choose those energy-saving disks to implement persistent data backup; secondly, reasonable buffer size was needed to extend average continuous idle time of disks, so that some of them could be put into standby during their idle time. The simulation experimental results show that the proposed strategy can effectively save energy by about 12.69% in a given RAMCloud system with 50 servers. The buffer size has double impacts on energy-saving effect and data availability, which must be weighed.

For low server utilization and serious energy consumption waste problems in cloud computing environment, an energy-efficient strategy for dynamic management of cloud storage replica based on user visiting characteristic was put forward. Through transforming the study of the user visiting characteristics into calculating the visiting temperature of Block, DataNode actively applied for sleeping so as to achieve the goal of energy saving according to the global visiting temperature.The dormant application and dormancy verifying algorithm was given in detail, and the strategy concerning how to deal with the visit during DataNode dormancy was described explicitly. The experimental results show that after adopting this strategy, 29%-42% DataNode can sleep, energy consumption reduces by 31%, and server response time is well. The performance analysis show that the proposed strategy can effectively reduce the energy consumption while guaranteeing the data availability.