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Table Of Contents

1 Introduction
2 Generic Recommendations
3 Test Environment and Methodology
4 Scalability and Performance tests for Power Manager 2.0
5 Addition of devices and groups in Power Manager
- 5.1 Configuration Details and Generic Recommendations
  - 5.1.1 Configuration Details
  - 5.1.2 Recommendations
- 5.2 Test Results in Scaled infrastructure (Devices and Groups)
  - 5.2.1 Addition of devices and groups in Power Manager
  - 5.2.2 Removal of devices and groups in Power Manager
6 Metric Collection
- 6.1 Configuration Details and Generic Recommendations
  - 6.1.1 Configuration Details
  - 6.1.2 Recommendations
- 6.2 Test Results
7 Power Policy (Power Capping)
8 Emergency Power Reduction
9 Alert Thresholds
- 9.1 Configuration Details and Generic Recommendations
  - 9.1.1 Configuration Details
  - 9.1.2 Recommendations
- 9.2 Test Results in Scaled Infrastructure
10 Importing Physical Groups and Device Association from a CSV file
- 10.1 Configuration Details and Generic Recommendations
  - 10.1.1 Configuration Details
  - 10.1.2 Recommendations
- 10.2 Test Results in Scaled Infrastructure
11 Plugin Actions (Install, Disable, Enable, Uninstall)
- 11.1 Configuration Details and Generic Recommendations
  - 11.1.1 Configuration Details
  - 11.1.2 Recommendations
- 11.2 Test Results in Scaled Infrastructure
12 Longevity Test Results
13 Troubleshooting
- 13.1 Metric Collection happening at non-regular intervals in a scaled datacenter environment
- 13.2 Association of devices to Physical Groups may fail when trying to create more than 100 groups using csv import method
14 Conclusion
15 Technical Support and Resources.
- 15.1 Related Resources

Metric Collection

13 Benchmark the Performance, Reliability and Scalability of Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

2.0 in Data Center Environment

6 Metric Collection

Metric details are captured from monitored servers, chassis, PDU’s and virtual machines at regular intervals

of 15, 30, or 60 minutes as per the configured Power Manager Settings. This metrics is represented through

the Metrics and Monitoring History graphs:

• Power History

• Thermal History

• CPU Utilization

• I/O Utilization

• Memory Utilization

• System Air Flow History

View this historical data in Power Management and Monitoring tab in Device Details section for Individual

Devices and in Group Details tab for Static and Physical Groups.

6.1 Configuration Details and Generic Recommendations

6.1.1 Configuration Details

Metric Collection is supported on Individual Devices, Static Groups and Physical Groups in Power Manager.

Metric gathering starts when the devices and groups are added to Power Manager or when the supported

device types are Associated to a Rack Physical Group. The default setting of Metric gathering interval

automatically changes to 30 minutes when more than 1000 devices are added to Power Manager.

6.1.2 Recommendations

After analyzing the test results, following are the recommendations for Metric Collection:

• It is recommended to create Static and Rack Physical Groups with not more than 40 devices for

Metric Collection to occur seamlessly.

• Make sure that the target devices are reachable to Power Manager and is responsive with respect to

the management protocols. Higher number of unresponsive devices can have impact in metric

collection due to the number of attempted retries.

• In case there are high number of unresponsive devices, it is recommended to have Metric gathering

interval set to 60 minutes which will help avoid performance deterioration.

Note: The test results captured in all the following sections is for four hours of Metric Collection and the

graphs are plotted for the CPU and Memory utilization of metric collection service.