Acer AR380 F2 Smart Server Manager Best Practice Guide - Page 34

After setting the management groups the admin will have to set up a rack of devices for which

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Smart Server Manager v1.2 - Best Practices Once set the admin may than begin to create one of three power zones - Critical, High Availability and Low Priority. The power zones will act as groups of which servers should impose power capping when the rack limit begins to be reached. For example, if the set rack begins to peak, the low priority servers will be under clocked first, before the high availability and critical server groups. Each group can be configured to throttle the servers to any percentage desired - this mostly relates to the CPU usage. After setting the management groups the admin will have to set up a rack of devices for which the groups will apply to. The first step the admin can right click in the device tree to the left-hand side to add a power management device. 34

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Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices
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Once set the admin may than begin to create one of three power zones – Critical, High Availability and Low
Priority. The power zones will act as groups of which servers should impose power capping when the rack
limit begins to be reached. For example, if the set rack begins to peak, the low priority servers will be under
clocked first, before the high availability and critical server groups. Each group can be configured to throttle
the servers to any percentage desired – this mostly relates to the CPU usage.
After setting the management groups the admin will have to set up a rack of devices for which the groups
will apply to. The first step the admin can right click in the device tree to the left-hand side to add a power
management device.