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3 Benchmark the Performance, Reliability and Scalability of Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
2.0 in Data Center Environment
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................................ 5
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2 Generic Recommendations .......................................................................................................................................... 7
3 Test Environment and Methodology............................................................................................................................. 9
4 Scalability and Performance tests for Power Manager 2.0 ........................................................................................ 10
5 Addition of devices and groups in Power Manager .................................................................................................... 11
5.1 Configuration Details and Generic Recommendations .................................................................................... 11
5.1.1 Configuration Details ........................................................................................................................................ 11
5.1.2 Recommendations ............................................................................................................................................ 11
5.2 Test Results in Scaled infrastructure (Devices and Groups) ........................................................................... 12
5.2.1 Addition of devices and groups in Power Manager .......................................................................................... 12
5.2.2 Removal of devices and groups in Power Manager ......................................................................................... 12
6 Metric Collection ......................................................................................................................................................... 13
6.1 Configuration Details and Generic Recommendations .................................................................................... 13
6.1.1 Configuration Details ........................................................................................................................................ 13
6.1.2 Recommendations ............................................................................................................................................ 13
6.2 Test Results ...................................................................................................................................................... 14
6.2.1 Small Deployment - CONFIG 1 ........................................................................................................................ 14
6.2.2 Large Deployments - CONFIG 2 and CONFIG 3 ............................................................................................. 15
6.2.3 Large Deployments - CONFIG 4 and CONFIG 5 ............................................................................................. 16
7 Power Policy (Power Capping) ................................................................................................................................... 18
7.1 Configuration Details and Generic Recommendations .................................................................................... 18
7.1.1 Configuration Details ........................................................................................................................................ 18
7.1.2 Recommendations ............................................................................................................................................ 18
7.2 Test Results in Scaled Infrastructure................................................................................................................ 18
7.3 Test Results for Power Policy Actions .............................................................................................................. 19
8 Emergency Power Reduction ..................................................................................................................................... 21
8.1 Configuration Details and Generic Recommendations .................................................................................... 21
8.1.1 Configuration Details ........................................................................................................................................ 21
8.1.2 Recommendations ............................................................................................................................................ 21
8.2 Test Results in Scaled infrastructure (Devices and Groups) ........................................................................... 21