HP SIM lets me turn of the lights remotely..

June 26th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2007/06/hp_injects_powe.html

With many companies struggle with soaring energy costs as well as limits on getting the power they need to expand, or even run, their datacenters, HP today a new power-capping component for HP Insight Power Manager, part of the HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) hardware management platform.

Using Insight Power Manager, customers can measure the average and peak power usage of their HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers and cap power at specific wattages, according to HP. That, in turn, can reduce power and cooling costs. Moreover, it helps companies ensure that they don’t draw more energy from the grid than they’re allotted. Trying to draw more energy than is available to you can reduce in unexpected downtime.

This does sound very cool, and coudl be invaluable for those customers with HP systems in their data centers, my only concern is, is it a plug in? Ideally I wouldn’t be loading additional agents/drivers on the box to achieve this, the bigger the operating system/driver/layered component footprint, one might argue, the less capacity is being used to earn revenue.

Do I have to pay for it? Not that I’m against it, pricing it competitively will have an affect on its use, we’ll need to see.

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