White Papers
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
- 6 Metric Collection
- 7 Power Policy (Power Capping)
- 8 Emergency Power Reduction
- 9 Alert Thresholds
- 10 Importing Physical Groups and Device Association from a CSV file
- 11 Plugin Actions (Install, Disable, Enable, Uninstall)
- 12 Longevity Test Results
- 13 Troubleshooting
- 14 Conclusion
- 15 Technical Support and Resources.
Executive Summary
5 Benchmark the Performance, Reliability and Scalability of Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
2.0 in Data Center Environment
Executive Summary
This technical whitepaper provides an overview about the performance, reliability, and scalability testing of
Power Manager version 2.0 deployed on OpenManage Enterprise version 3.6.1. This whitepaper contains
reports that are run to assess the product quality and stability of the following Power Manager features:
• Metric collection for Power and Thermal History, CPU Utilization, I/O Utilization, Memory Utilization,
System Air Flow History, VM Power and PDU Instant Power.
• Power Cap configuration through Power Policy deployment.
• Emergency Power Reduction (EPR) configuration on Devices and Groups.
• Alert Thresholds configuration and monitoring on Devices and Groups.
• Import Physical Groups and Device Association from a CSV file.
• Addition or removal of Devices and Groups in Power Manager.
• Plugin actions such as install, enable, disable, and uninstall.
This document provides recommendations to achieve maximum performance using Power Manager in a
scaled infrastructure.