HP Insight Control Power Management 6.2 User Guide

In the Power/Thermal Analysis views page,
• Power Status Alerts are highlighted with severity icons to highlight the severity of the alert. Alerts for
contained devices are aggregated to the top-level object displayed.
• Potential overloads are highlighted on the Physical Location tab for exceeded thermal limits and on the
Power Delivery tab for power delivery devices.
For thermal overloads, you may consider the need to move one or more systems to a rack with more cooling
capacity, or by setting an upper limit on power consumption through use of power capping. For more
information, see Task: Protecting your power and cooling infrastructure.
Potential overloads on power delivery devices must be evaluated with care as they may represent the potential
of a tripped circuit breaker and unexpected system down time under the right conditions. Similar to thermal
overloads, you may need to reconfigure systems to receive power from other power delivery devices to
ensure sufficient capacity for all potential demands. Another option is to protect the power delivery
infrastructure by limiting power consumption using power capping. For more information, see Task: Protecting
your power and cooling infrastructure.
Task: Protecting your power and cooling infrastructure
In your data center, after configuring systems and devices, you must finalize the power and cooling
infrastructure. Planning this infrastructure protects your systems and ensures that there is no data loss because
of power problems. By planning this infrastructure, you are notified when systems are reaching their thresholds
of power or cooling limits.
After you have identified a portion of your power and cooling infrastructure that has a potential for an
overload, you did not experience any problem. But, power management analyses indicate that under a
worst-case scenario, your rack may exceed thermal output limits. Or, even still worse a circuit breaker on a
power delivery device may have the potential to trip resulting in loss of power if all equipment drew maximum
power at the same time. The traditional solution to this problem would either be to relocate systems to areas
of the data center with excess power or cooling capacity to avoid the potential problem, but this solution is
disruptive and requires significant planning. If your systems support HP Dynamic Power Capping, you can
reduce the maximum power consumption and eliminate the potential overload condition by specifying a
power cap value.
To protect your power/cooling infrastructure, perform the following:
1. Make a note of the maximum available power for the set of systems (the rack or the overloaded power
delivery device). This value is reported in the "Potential Overload Analysis" message.
2. Select each system involved individually or press and hold the Shift key to select and add multiple
systems to the selection and click Display Power/Thermal data from the Quick Launch menu.
3. In the Verify Target Systems step page, the unsupported systems are removed from the selection.
Make a note of the unsupported systems to add their maximum power consumption and subtract the
value from the total power being allocated as mentioned in step 1. Click Next and confirm that some
targets will be removed from the selection.
4. You will now analyze the power requirements for the combination of systems selected based on power
consumption history. It is a best practice that you have enough power history to identify any potential
cyclic peaks (such as end-of-month billing, or perhaps seasonal events).
a. Choose the desired time frame, for example 1 year, and click Draw Graph.
b. In the table that appears below the graph, determine the maximum power consumption for the set
of systems as noted in the Group Peak Power Consumption.
5. Compare the Group Peak Power Consumption value with the available power calculated in as
mentioned in step 3. Click Change in the Power Management Actions section and consider the following
issues to determine if it is reasonable to power cap this group to the Available Power:
a. The available power must be 10-20% above the Group Peak Power Consumption to ensure
that there is sufficient cap headroom to enable future growth.
b. The sum of Maximum Power for each system must be less than the Available Power.
6. If validation of the cap in step 5 indicates that it is reasonable, apply a power cap value for Available
Power to the group. Insight Control power management automatically distributes the power cap value
across the selection as a group, or you can divide the power cap value manually to distribute the power
to match the business value of each system. Since the set power cap value does not change between
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