HP Insight Control Power Management 7.0 User Guide

Task: Notification of Power Management Events
Insight Control power management alerts are distributed as Systems Insight Manager events
attributed to specific devices. This capability enables you to be notified of power/cooling issues
that may arise from:
• New hardware attached to a PDU but not configured in Systems Insight Manager
• New potential overload conditions precipitated by addition of new hardware
• Loss of power/thermal data collection due to changes in credentials on an iLO/OA
• Configuration changes that may have removed a previous power cap required to stay within
a power/cooling constraint
For automatic notification of power management events, you may use the Automatic Event Handling
capability of Systems Insight Manager to route the event to the destination of your choice such as
send a page, email, execute a custom CMS tool, assign to a specific user, generate a SNMP trap,
or system log.
Selection of which specific event types, and for which systems automatic event handling it is to be
activated is provided by Systems Insight Manager.
Task: Limiting the power consumption in the data center during events
Data Center Power Control provides the ability to define the goal of expected power consumption
for a set of systems in response to the data center events and conditionally stop the rule execution
when the expected power consumption goal is achieved through the Conditionally stop rule
execution feature. You can use this feature for data center events such as:
• Power event – when you may need to use the limited power available.
• Cooling event – when one of the chillers cooling a zone in a data center fails and you need
to reduce the power consumption in order to use the available cooling effectively.
• DR event – when you may need to reduce the power consumption to a certain limit based on
the request from an utility company.
For events as these, you can set the parameters of the Conditionally stop rule execution feature
such as operational power, calibrated maximum power, and minimum power to the desired values
and set to act on the selected systems or devices.
Task: Gracefully shutting down virtual machines
Data Center Power Control allows you to stop or shut down the virtual machine (VM) hosts and
guests using the Graceful Shutdown feature. To shut down VM hosts without any errors, you must
stop or shut down the VM guests in a proper manner. The Graceful Shutdown feature shuts down
the VM guests gracefully and then proceeds to shut down the VM hosts. The virtual machines that
are configured for migrations are allowed to migrate before shutting down the guests. The shutting
down of virtual machines require VMware tools installed on ESX hosts and integration service tools
installed on Hyper-V hosts.
To shut down VM hosts and guests, perform the following:
1. Ensure that HP Insight Control virtual machine management is installed and running on the
CMS.
2. Ensure that the required tools are installed on the VM guests.
3. Ensure that the target hypervisors are registered with virtual machine management.
4. Discover and select the node hosting the virtual machines on the Data Center Power Control
page.
5. Run the Graceful Shutdown option on the VM host for the VM guests to shutdown.
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