By Mark Lackey, Product Manager, Insight Control power management HP is introducing Data Center Power Control, the newest power management feature of Insight Control. I want to share a cool story about how this product was invented after a nearly catastrophic event at an HP site. We used our experience...
By Steve Cumings, Director, SCI Marketing, ISS How will the HP Center Smart Grid solve the #1 data center constraint? As we talk to customers around the world, they continue to tell us their #1 challenge is power and cooling. The problem is this: When a power or cooling limit is reached in the data center...
Recently, we were running to power and performance benchmarks on a server in our lab. We were using HP-UX 11i v3, update 5 [http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-overview.html] and we were testing the impact of some of the power management features on the system. The power management...
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jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com
on 10-21-2009
Filed under: Integrity, green, power, servers, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, Green Idle, Energy Efficiency, Green Active
Did you know that there is an Energy Star certification for servers? More information is at http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=ent_servers.enterprise_servers . Did you know that HP had the first Energy Star certified servers (several HP ProLiant servers)? I attended a stakeholders meeting with the...
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jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com
on 09-29-2009
Filed under: Integrity, green, cooling, power, servers, EPA, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, energy star, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX
While Kurt is off visiting customers and Lorraine is reflecting on the nature of mission-critical computing, I am also joining the blogging team. Let me introduce myself. My name is Jacob Van Ewyk, and I work in Business Critical Systems Marketing. I'm currently focused on Power, Cooling, and Cloud...
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 consumption and the reason why goes right down...
Mike Manos responded to my post about power capping being ready for prime time with a very well thought out and argued post that really looks at this from a datacenter manager's perspective, rather than just my technology focused perspective. I'm going to try and summarize some of the key issues...