HP ProLiant DL185 Dynamic Power Capping TCO and Best Practices White Paper (EM - Page 12

Conclusion As the cost of provisioning power and cooling to enterprise data centers continues to rise, IT organizations find themselves confronted with half-filled racks, a lack of power and cooling capacity, and less budget available for large data center build-outs. Solving this problem will require a focus on reducing energy consumption as well as a concerted effort re-examine how power is budgeted within the data center. Instead of budgeting based on power supply face plate values or some derivative of those numbers, IT organizations must find more precise ways to measure actual power requirements, and they must find the means to reliably control the power that those devices consume. Hewlett-Packard's Thermal Logic portfolio helps customers reduce data center power consumption, reclaim a large portion of trapped data center power and cooling capacity, and extend the life of existing data center facilities. HP Insight Control Environment helps IT and facilities administrators accurately measure power consumption on one or more ProLiant servers or BladeSystem c7000 enclosures. With the addition of Dynamic Power Capping to Insight Control Environment, it is now possible to limit peak power usage and, using the best practices outlines in this paper, reclaim power and cooling capacity that is sitting idle in the data center. As we look toward the future, HP will continue drive investment toward products and technologies, such as Insight Control Environment and Dynamic Power Capping, that drive the Thermal Logic vision of reducing power consumption, reclaiming power and cooling capacity, extending the life of the data center. If you are interested in trying these products to see how they can help you make the most of your data center power and cooling resources, we invite you to contact your HP or HP partner sales representative or download HP Insight Control Environment from http://www.hp.com/go/tryInsightControl. 12