Users Guide

Policy Priority Levels

When you create or update a policy, you can select different 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-specific; however, a device/group may have different priority levels in different

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

configured different priorities or power caps for the policy with the same time slot. In this case, Power

Center follows these rules:

• If there are overlapping policies on an entity, the policy with the lowest power cap is applied.

• If there are overlapping dynamic policies on an entity and both are currently active, the highest

priority (High > Medium > Low) of this entity is applied.

Policy Modes

The policy mode is shown in the Enabled and Active columns in the Policies page. A green symbol

indicates Enabled or Active. Power Center supports three policy modes:

Table 6. Policy Modes

Enabled Column Active Column Mode Description

Green Green Enabled and active The policy is in use now.

Green NA Enabled but not active The policy is available

but not in use now.

NA NA Disabled The policy is created but

not available for use.

Enabling or disabling a policy

1. In the left pane, click Policies.

The Policies screen is displayed.

2. In the list of policies, select the check box next to the policy or policies that you want to enable or

disable.