Power Inventory, Power Budgeting, and Capping

From a usage perspective, you may have a limited amount of cooling at the rack level. With a user-defined power cap, you can allocate power as needed to meet your performance requirements.

The iDRAC6 monitors power consumption and dynamically throttles processors to meet your defined power cap level, which maximizes performance while meeting your power requirements.

Power Monitoring

The iDRAC6 monitors the power consumption in PowerEdge servers continuously. iDRAC6 calculates the following power values and provides the information through its Web-based interface or RACADM CLI:

Cumulative power

Average, minimum, and maximum power

Power headroom values

Power consumption (also shown in graphs in the Web-based interface)

Configuring and Managing Power

You can use the iDRAC6 Web-based interface and RACADM command line interface (CLI) to manage and configure power controls on the PowerEdge system. Specifically, you can:

View the power status of the server

Execute power control operations on the server (for example, power on, power off, system reset, power cycle)

View power budget information for the server and the installed power supply units, such as, the minimum and maximum potential power consumption

View and configure power budget threshold for the server

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