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Scalability and Performance tests for Power Manager 2.0
10 Benchmark the Performance, Reliability and Scalability of Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
2.0 in Data Center Environment
4 Scalability and Performance tests for Power Manager 2.0
The primary focus of scalability and performance test was to collect and analyze various performance
parameters of Power Manager version 2.0 for the following features:
• Metric Collection: Metric gathering for Power and Thermal History, CPU Utilization, I/O Utilization,
Memory Utilization and System Air Flow History.
• Power Policy: Power Cap configuration through Power Policy deployment on Devices and Groups.
• Emergency Power Reduction (EPR): EPR Configuration on Devices and Groups.
• Alert Thresholds: Monitoring of Alert Thresholds (Power and Temperature) configured in Power
Manager for Devices and Groups.
Power Manager features tested in scale environment
In addition to the core features mentioned above, a brief analysis is provided on different plugin actions (such
as Install, Disable, Enable and Uninstall), modification of devices and groups added to Power Manager
(addition and removal of Individual Devices and Groups) and on Import of Physical Groups and Device
Association from a CSV file.
The tests were performed at various loads as mentioned in the configuration matrix at each section of the
validated features. In addition to this, the longevity and reliability tests were performed, where the high priority
features of Power Manager were executed at regular intervals over a period of 10 days. The performance
data is collected and updated for these tests as well.