Non-intrusive power management

摘要

A method and system for managing power consumption of a pool of computing devices are disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes managing resource utilization for each computing device without installing customized software, firmware or hardware on the computing device and dynamically selecting, one or more candidate computing devices for altering their respective power states based on at least real-time information on the quantity of requests.

主权项

1. A method of power management, the method comprising:
using a computerized power manager for managing resource utilization associated with each computing device from at least a subset of computing devices of a plurality of computing devices; receiving, by the computerized power manager, real-time information from an application delivery controller, the real-time information including information on a quantity of requests and information on size of a request; and in response to receiving the real-time information on the quantity of requests, dynamically selecting, by the computerized power manager, a candidate computing device from the subset of computing devices for controlling a power state of the candidate computing device based on at least the real-time information on the quantity of requests.