Specifications

Server Setup and Configuration

Servers have to be setup with operating systems installed and BMC congured as described below. The reader is expected to have the

basic knowledge of the server conguration and operating system installation. This will not be explained in detail in this paper. Refer to

Appendix B for guidance on the BMC conguration.

1. In the BIOS, configure BMC network settings with static or DHCP option as desired, and provide the BMC hostname. We used DHCP.

Note down the BMC hostname or IP Address.

2. Note down the user name and password of the BMC user with administrator privileges. Either use ‘root’ user ensuring

‘administrator’ privileges are granted, or add another user.

3. Install Operating System and application/workload on the servers. For this test we installed Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit

Operating System on three servers, and RedHat CentOS 5.5 on one server. A SQL Server 2005 workload was also installed on the

Windows servers to generate load. Readers may use operating system and workload of their choice.

4. EDCM Energy Manager will connect to the servers both via in band with OS hostname and credentials and out of band with BMC

hostname and login credentials.

EDCM Energy Management Solution Installation and Configuration

Below is a summary of the steps required for the installation and conguration of the infrastructure to exercise the platform power

management capabilities supported by Intel on the Dell PowerEdge C-Series servers specied above.

The following setup steps assume the reader has a basic understanding of how to install and congure Windows Server* 2008 R2

Enterprise.

EDCM can be installed on a virtual machine or a physical server with the following minimum conguration:

• 4 GB RAM and 2 CPUs

• 20GB free disk space

• Windows 2003 or 2008 64 bit or 32 bit OS

For the tests conducted for this paper, a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit VMware virtual machine with 4 CPUs, 6GB RAM and 50GB hard disk

space was used.

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