Users Guide

• Previous day
• Previous week
• Previous month
• Previous quarter
8 Enter a value in the Power Cap Value text box.
9 Click Next to continue, click Back to return to the previous screen, or click Cancel to discontinue the task.
10 In the Power Cap Priorities window, select an option from the Priority drop-down list to set the capping priority for each device in
the group.
The available options are:
• Low
• Medium
• High
NOTE: The Power Cap Priorities window is accessible only when you select a device group.
11 Click Next to continue, click Back to return to the previous screen, or click Cancel to discontinue the task.
12 In the Power Policy Schedule window, set the monitoring schedule for the policy.
• Time Span — Always or a range (enter start and end time in the format hh:mm using 24–hour time)
• Recurrence Pattern — Always or specic days of the week
• Recurrence Range — Always or a range (enter start and end dates)
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NOTE
: The following steps are applicable only if you choose TEMPERATURE TRIGGERED POWER POLICY option. If
you choose STATIC or DYNAMIC power policy, you can skip the 13th, 14th, and the 15th step.
Select the time period to monitor the temperature. The available options are Previous hour, Previous day, Previous week, Previous
month, Previous quarter.
14 Select the required ASHRAE class from the drop-down menu.
The temperature threshold for the selected ASHRAE class is populated automatically.
15 Click Next to schedule the policy. The available options are Always and Range.
16 Click Next to view the summary of the policy you created.
17 In the Summary window, click Finish to save the policy, click Back to review the policy information, or click Cancel to discard the
changes.
The new policy is eective immediately.
Policy Priority Levels
When you create or update a policy, you can select dierent priority levels for each device/group. For example, you can set priority levels
based on the service level agreements associated with workloads running on a device/group.
Power Center tends to reserve more power to the devices/groups with higher priority when the power cap for devices/groups is not fully
utilized.
For each device/group, you can set one of the three priority levels:
• Low
• Medium (Default)
• High
Priority lists are policy-specic; however, a device/group may have dierent priority levels in dierent policies. A higher-priority value of a
device/group in a policy overrides the lower-priority value of the same node in another policy.
For example, you created Policy1 for device <A, B, C> and Policy2 for device <B, C, D>, and you congured dierent priorities or power
caps for the policy with the same time slot. In this case, Power Center follows these rules:
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Policies