Improve Your Data Center Management With Intel Node Manager – Smart Server Management

Server power management is quickly gaining momentum as a way to reach critical datacenter objectives, such as monitoring power consumption data to improve results utilization, maximizing server and power density in the rack, surviving extended operations through power events and reduce total power and carbon footprints. Intel Node manager delivers advanced power and thermal instrumentation.so you can easily achieve these objectives. Along with Intel data center manager, the technology allows data center management tools to communicate with Intel Xeon processors based servers to precisely monitor system level power consumption based on policy set by IT administrator. This enables you to manage consumption across racks, ios and other group of servers.

To deploy Intel Node manager, you need to specify the following items as a part of your server requirements;

• Intel Xeon processor based server supporting Intel Node manager.
• ACPI Compliant Operating System.
• Management console or scripting enabled with Intel Data Center manager or Node manager API.

Here’s how it works, The data center manager sends commands by the management console to set a power limit or server in response to the power supply. The console manager communicates power budget policies by the base code management controller to Intel Node manager which is monitoring server power consumption in real time. The power level time is then compared to policy set in the start. If the system exceeds the policy limit, Intel Node Manager utilizes a closely processed to adjust process memory power to meet the target power level. In this way Intel Node manager maximizes the amount of work performed with in a given power budget and remains continuously controlled and predictable.

With this improved control, you can include more systems per rack while keeping a good control. Intel Node Manager Compliant systems are available from many server manufacturers. It can help you to improve power and cooling capacity planning and management, increase performance density, decrease ownership costs and improve business continuity.

For more information go to Intel Node Manager