Users Guide

Table 1. OpenManage Power Center features (continued)

Feature Description

and device groups. The formula for calculating stranded power

is:

Stranded Power(t) = Allocated Power(t) -

Peak Power Consumption(t)

where (t) is calculated as a function of time. You can specify

a time range in the report. By default, (t) is the time range

of monitored data.

Power and Thermal Analysis Enables you to analyze power and the thermal characteristics.

You can also analyze the underutilized servers and identify the

potential cooling issues in a data center.

Integration with the iDRAC Location Enables you to replicate the data center hierarchy on the

iDRAC location based on OMPC physical location modeling.

Database Backup Enables you to schedule a backup of all the policies, recovery

logs, or the OMPC database. The backup data can be used on

a different OMPC server or can be used as a restore point if

there is a disk failure.

Measuring virtual machine power consumption Enables you to measure the power utilized by virtual

machines. The measured values help you to balance the

workload between VMs based on power consumption and

identify any issues with assignment of VMs to the servers.

New in this release

● Support for new platforms and browsers. For more information, see Supported and unsupported devices.

● Support for new operating systems and browsers. For more information, see Software requirements.

Topology

The following figure shows how to use a web browser to access the Power Center server and manage the data center.

Overview