HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................5
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2 Key concepts.............................................................................................7
Data centers, racks, and power delivery devices...........................................................................7
Data centers........................................................................................................................7
Racks.................................................................................................................................7
Power delivery devices..........................................................................................................7
Power topology........................................................................................................................7
Power delivery hierarchy.......................................................................................................8
Power calculation.................................................................................................................9
Assumptions...................................................................................................................9
Power calculation............................................................................................................9
Power delivery device voltage discovery.............................................................................9
Power delivery device total capacity calculations...............................................................10
Converting Watts to Amperes.........................................................................................10
Converting Amperes to Watts.........................................................................................10
Data Center Power Control.......................................................................................................10
Security properties..................................................................................................................11
Protocols and ports numbers................................................................................................11
Credentials.......................................................................................................................11
Use of management LAN....................................................................................................11
Security properties for Data Center Power Control..................................................................11
Power Regulator.....................................................................................................................12
HP Power Regulator for ProLiant...........................................................................................12
HP Power Regulator for Integrity...........................................................................................13
Understanding HP Power Regulator savings...........................................................................13
Server power consumption savings from Power Regulator....................................................13
Reducing cooling power with Power Regulator..................................................................15
Avoiding data center expansion .....................................................................................15
Avoiding power provisioning errors.................................................................................16
Power Capping......................................................................................................................16
Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping.......................................................................16
Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping......................................................................................16
Powering up groups of servers ............................................................................................16
Power monitoring for Integrity servers........................................................................................16
3 Managing power and cooling facilities in your data center............................18
Task: Importing power configuration from third-party management software...................................18
Task: Importing power configuration from external databases.......................................................18
Importing from Excel worksheets .........................................................................................18
Task: Monitoring the power and cooling requirements of your IT equipment....................................20
Step 1: Identifying/discovering your IT systems.......................................................................20
Step 2: Understanding the operational range of individual IT systems .......................................20
Step 3: Finding thermal hot spots in your data center .............................................................20
Step 4: Finding available capacity on power delivery devices .................................................21
Task: Ensuring sufficient availability of power and cooling for your data center...............................22
Task: Protecting your power and cooling infrastructure.................................................................22
Task: Getting notified of unexpected or excessive power consumption............................................23
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
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