Dell PowerEdge M710 Information Update

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Information Update: 
Power Infrastructure Sizing
Properly sizing system power consumption benefits an efficient IT environment. 
If the power supply power rating for a system is used to calculate the cumulative 
power for an overall deployment, it provides a conservative assessment for many 
hardware configurations and can be less efficient and more costly. In an effort to 
gain optimal performance and to avoid costly over-provisioning, you need to 
understand how to assess power consumption of the system to adequately 
provision the facility. 

Power consumption is specific to the system configuration and to the workload 
expected of the hardware. If a system is assessed under a peak workload for a 
specific deployment, the assessment may result in a significantly different power 
consumption requirement than that of the power supply power rating. On-line 
capacity planning tools available from Dell may help to understand peak power 
consumption for a particular system configuration. Systems characterized while 
using the power capping features enabled from Dell system management 
software provide additional predictability for peak power consumption. 
Combined use of system and workload characterization with power capping 
can more accurately approximate the appropriate size of Power Distribution 
Units (PDUs), Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs), and other power 
infrastructure distribution equipment. 
Example: If a server power supply is rated at 1000W and the characterization 
results in 500W of power consumption for the configuration and workload, 
the 500W power value can be used for infrastructure sizing. Using system power 
capping at the 500W value also provides additional assurance that 500W can be 
used for sizing the infrastructure. When deploying 20 of the same configuration 
in a rack, the total load can be sized for 10KW. By contrast, if the power supply 
rated value or 1000W were used, the total load would be sized as 20KW. 
The power supply-rated approach requires additional power and cooling and 
results in an infrastructure that is utilized less than 50 percent.

Using PDUs with circuit protection devices such as circuit breakers or fuses 
ensures that regulatory and safety guidance is met for a deployment. 

June 2009

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