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Dell Power Center’s Power Policies for 12
th
-Generation Servers
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Contents
Executive Summary .................................................................................................... 5
Introduction ............................................................................................................. 5
Dell 12th-Generation Servers Employ Intel Node Manager for Power Monitoring and Management ..... 5
Power Capping Based on Real-Time Power Measurement .................................................... 5
Setting an Efficient Capping Value ............................................................................... 6
Power Capping a Group of Servers .................................................................................. 8
Power Center can Aggregate the Data and Set the Power Capping at any Group Level ................ 8
Static Capping ........................................................................................................ 8
Dynamic Capping ..................................................................................................... 9
How to Set Power Policies using Power Center ................................................................. 11
Setting Static Policies ............................................................................................. 11
Setting Dynamic Policies .......................................................................................... 13
Managing Power Policies .......................................................................................... 15
Power Provisioning Using Real-Time Versus Nameplate Data ................................................. 15
Using Power Policies for Emergency Management .............................................................. 16
Setting a Low or Untenable Power Cap on the Server ......................................................... 17
Peak Power Reporting and Power Capping ....................................................................... 18
Using iDRAC in Conjunction with Power Center ................................................................. 19
Power Capping Overlap and Logical Groups ..................................................................... 19
Conclusion ............................................................................................................. 19
References ............................................................................................................. 19
Tables
Table 1. The power is dynamically adjusted among servers in a group ................................... 10
Figures
Figure 1. Power operation range and capping value ............................................................. 7
Figure 2. Power Center - Power operation range and capping value ......................................... 7
Figure 3. The power data is aggregated for group capping .................................................... 8
Figure 4. Static capping in Power Center .......................................................................... 9
Figure 5. Setting the static policy type .......................................................................... 12
Figure 6. Setting group capping value in static policy......................................................... 13
Figure 7. Setting priorities in dynamic policy ................................................................... 14
Figure 8. View, manage, and mitigate all power policies from one place ................................. 15
Figure 9. Power consumption is reduced due to EPR .......................................................... 17