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Applications Matter - What Affects Server Power Consumption: Part 2

How does the application you are using and what it is doing affect the power consumption of system. The first thing that everyone looks at when talking about power consumption is CPU utilization. Unfortunately CPU utilization is not a good proxy for power...

Published 06-10-2009 10:21 PM by Tony Harvey

Filed under: BladeSystem, power, energy efficiency, green IT, datacenter, power management, myths, Power Supplies, data center
Configuration Matters - What Affects Server Power Consumption: Part 1

Following on from my first post I'll take a look at the affect hardware configuration will have on the power consumption of the enclosure. To do this I went into the Blade Power Sizer and configured up two equivalent systems. I kept the enclosure...

Published 05-27-2009 4:06 PM by Tony Harvey

Filed under: cooling, power, datacenter, Power Supplies, blades, data center

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