Patent ID: 8751844

Claim:
A method for attributing a portion of a level of electrical power consumption by a first server to a workload executing on the first server, the method comprising: determining a level of electrical power consumption of a first server by a plurality of workloads executing on the first server; identifying a level of load placed on the first server by a workload of the plurality of workloads executing on the first server, as a fraction of total load placed on the first server by the plurality of workloads; attributing, by a power apportionment module, a portion of the level of electrical power consumption of the first server to the workload, based on the identified level of load; providing, by the power apportionment module, an identification of the portion of the level of electrical power consumption attributed to the workload of the plurality of workloads; and migrating the workload to a second server based on the identification of the attributed portion of the level of electrical power consumption.