System and method to analyze and optimize application level resource and energy consumption by data center servers

Data Center (DC) server power management monitors resource utilization and energy consumption characteristics of an individual host server, and a Virtual Machine (VM) and the applications running inside any VM of DC servers. An analysis and learning module identifies trends and opportunities to optimize DC resources by releasing the underutilized host servers. It derives power metrics to measure the energy footprint of the VMs and the associated applications. It suggests optimal destination servers to migrate each of the VMs with corresponding applications from the underutilized host servers. The power consumption of these VMs with their applications on the power-efficient destination servers is less after the migration. Powering off the underutilized freed-up servers saves energy impacting the overall power consumption of the data center. The learning modules predict the opportunities for power capping on any VM or physical host server to reduce the data center's energy consumption without impacting performance.