Environmentally cognizant power management

摘要

The innovative system and method increases the efficiency of overall power utilization in data centers by using a power management approach based on a comprehensive, dynamic model of the data center created with integrated environmental and computational power monitoring to correlate power usage with different configurations of business services utilization. This involves intelligent monitoring of thermal conditions and electrical consumption at the relevant electrical power distribution points along with measures of computational load derived from the server hardware behavior, operating systems and application characteristics. The approach also addresses the need and implementation for synchronization of data collection on each such measuring device in the system and the distributed deployments of devices in a heterogeneous environment. The system and method improves the efficiency of electrical power utilization and dynamic computation load balancing capabilities based on application, infrastructure and environmental contexts not present in existing power management solutions.