Configuring the Power Policy

Power Policy

Thepower policy is a global policy that specifies the redundancy for power supplies in all chassis in the Cisco
UCSdomain. This policy is alsoknown asthe PSU policy.
Formore informationabout power supplyredundancy, see Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis Hardware
InstallationGuide.

Configuring the Power Policy

Procedure
Step 1 Inthe Navigation pane, clickthe Equipment tab.
Step 2 Onthe Equipment tab, click the Equipment node.
Step 3 Inthe Work pane, click the Policies tab.
Step 4 Clickthe Global Policiessubtab.
Step 5 Inthe Power Policyarea, click one of the following radio buttons in the Redundancy field:
NonRedundant—All installed power supplies are turned on and the load is evenly balanced. Only
smallerconfigurations (requiring less than 2500W) can be powered by a single power supply.
n+1—Thetotal number of power supplies to satisfy non-redundancy, plus one additional power supply
forredundancy, are turned on and equally share the power load for the chassis. If any additional power
suppliesare installed, Cisco UCS Manager sets them to a"turned-off" state.
Grid—Twopower sources are turned on, or the chassis requires greater than N+1 redundancy. If one
sourcefails (which causes a loss of power to one or two power supplies), the surviving power supplies
onthe otherpower circuit continue to provide power to the chassis.
Formore informationabout power supplyredundancy, see Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis Hardware
InstallationGuide.
Step 6 ClickSave Changes.
Configuring the Global Cap Policy

Global Cap Policy

Theglobal cap policy is a global policy that specifies whether policy-driven chassis group power capping or
manualblade-level power capping will be applied to all servers in a chassis.
Werecommend that you use the default power capping method: policy-driven chassis group power capping.
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