HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Overview...............................................................................................................................................7
2 Key concepts.............................................................................................9
Data centers, racks, and power delivery devices.........................................................................................9
Data centers......................................................................................................................................9
Racks...............................................................................................................................................9
Power delivery devices........................................................................................................................9
Power Topology......................................................................................................................................9
Power delivery hierarchy...................................................................................................................10
Power Calculation............................................................................................................................11
Assumptions...............................................................................................................................11
Power calculation........................................................................................................................11
Power delivery device voltage discovery........................................................................................11
Power delivery device total capacity calculations.............................................................................11
Converting Watts to Amperes.......................................................................................................12
Converting Amperes to Watts.......................................................................................................12
Data Center Power Control.....................................................................................................................12
Security properties................................................................................................................................13
Protocols and ports numbers..............................................................................................................13
Credentials.....................................................................................................................................13
Use of management LAN..................................................................................................................13
Security properties for Data Center Power Control................................................................................13
Power Regulator....................................................................................................................................14
HP Power Regulator for ProLiant.........................................................................................................14
HP Power Regulator for Integrity.........................................................................................................14
Understanding HP Power Regulator savings.........................................................................................15
Server power consumption savings from HP Power Regulator............................................................15
Reducing cooling power with HP Power Regulator...........................................................................16
Avoiding data center expansion ..................................................................................................16
Avoiding power provisioning errors...............................................................................................17
Power Capping.....................................................................................................................................17
Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping.....................................................................................17
Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping....................................................................................................17
Powering-up groups of servers ...........................................................................................................17
3 Managing power and cooling facilities in your data center............................19
Task: Importing power configuration from third-party management software..................................................19
Task: Importing power configuration from external databases.....................................................................19
Importing from Excel worksheets .......................................................................................................19
Task: Monitoring the power and cooling requirements of your IT equipment..................................................20
Step 1: Identifying/Discovering your IT systems....................................................................................21
Step 2: Understanding the operational range of individual IT systems .....................................................21
Step 3: Finding thermal hot-spots in your data center ...........................................................................21
Step 4: Finding available capacity on power delivery devices ...............................................................22
Task: Ensuring the sufficient availability of power and cooling for your data center........................................22
Task: Protecting your power and cooling infrastructure...............................................................................23
Task: Getting notified of unexpected or excessive power consumption..........................................................24
Task: Validating delivery of redundant power to systems ............................................................................24
Task: Determining trapped capacity in your data center.............................................................................24
Task: Reclaiming power/thermal capacity for a new system........................................................................26
Task: Classifying systems by business criticality.........................................................................................27
Task: Defining rules to reduce power consumption ....................................................................................27
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