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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

Revisions

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

2.0 in Data Center Environment

Revisions

Date

Description

August 2021

Scalability whitepaper for Power Manager 2.0 release with OpenManage

Enterprise version 3.6.1.

Acknowledgements

This technical white paper is documented by the following members of the Dell EMC Server Engineering

Team.

Authors: Ashish Singh, Aarsi Kumar, Jimmy Muraleedharan

Support: Shruthi Ravoor

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