HP Insight Control Power Management 6.3 User Guide

Power delivery hierarchy
Power is provided through a set of power delivery devices. Insight Control power management represents
places that can be monitored in the power delivery points of the hierarchy such as PDU load segment output,
PDU outlet, and so on, or a place where you may want to aggregate and report on power consumption of
a set of devices like servers.
Describing the power delivery hierarchy in power management allows power management to report on
overall infrastructure utilization, providing you with knowledge that enables you to fully utilize the available
capacity while at the same time reducing the risk of overloading the power/cooling infrastructure. Depending
upon the types of power delivery equipment in your data center, and the level of detail you desire, there is
significant flexibility in how you describe the power delivery hierarchy to power management.
A fully described power delivery hierarchy may contain all of the following elements depending upon your
needs:
• Power Feed: A top-level input of power from the data center facility into the power
management-observable power infrastructure.
• Breaker Panel: This represents the total group of breakers on a single Breaker Panel in a PDR.
• Branch Circuit: This represents a single output of a PDR circuit breaker or power meter.
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