Nov 17, 2006 : IBM Enhances Energy Management Tool
📅 - IBM (ibm.com) announced on Thursday it has enhanced the results of a recent internal study which showed that its BladeCenter system uses up to 30 percent less energy than HP's BladeSystem. The company also announced it has enhanced its energy management tool PowerExecutive, enabling customers to restrict the amount of power used by a single server or groups of servers to optimize energy use and application performance.
The internal IBM testing revealed that IBM's AMD Opteron-based BladeCenter within the BladeCenter system uses up to 30 percent less energy than the comparable HP AMD Opteron-based BladeSystem in the HP c-Class system when both systems are inactive, and up to 18 percent less energy when both systems are operating at full capacity.
IBM's Intel Xeon-based BladeCenter within the BladeCenter system uses up to 26 percent less energy than the comparable HP Intel Xeon-based BladeSystemin the HP c-Class system when both systems are idle, and up to 13 percent less energy when both systems are operating at full capacity. The study compared systems of the same dual-core Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron microprocessors.
As a plug-in for its systems management software, Director, PowerExecutive monitors and displays how much power each blade is using and the amount of heat it generates. IBM PowerExecutive enables IT managers to see the discrepancy between their power budget and actual power usage, allowing them to optimize their power consumption and become more cost-effective.
The internal IBM testing revealed that IBM's AMD Opteron-based BladeCenter within the BladeCenter system uses up to 30 percent less energy than the comparable HP AMD Opteron-based BladeSystem in the HP c-Class system when both systems are inactive, and up to 18 percent less energy when both systems are operating at full capacity.
IBM's Intel Xeon-based BladeCenter within the BladeCenter system uses up to 26 percent less energy than the comparable HP Intel Xeon-based BladeSystemin the HP c-Class system when both systems are idle, and up to 13 percent less energy when both systems are operating at full capacity. The study compared systems of the same dual-core Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron microprocessors.
As a plug-in for its systems management software, Director, PowerExecutive monitors and displays how much power each blade is using and the amount of heat it generates. IBM PowerExecutive enables IT managers to see the discrepancy between their power budget and actual power usage, allowing them to optimize their power consumption and become more cost-effective.
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