IBM and ENERGY STAR

ENERGY STAR® is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy which focuses on furthering environmental protection by identifying and promoting energy efficient products. EPA has established criteria for enterprise servers with up to 4 processor sockets not including Blades Servers, Fully Fault Tolerant servers, Server Appliances, and Multi-node systems. To qualify a server to the ENERGY STAR requirements, it must meet minimum standards for power supply efficiency, idle power use (1 and 2 processor socket systems) or enablement of processor level power management (4 processor socket system), and have the ability to communicate power and thermal data to data center management systems like Tivoli.

IBM has actively participated in the development of the ENERGY STAR specifications for server and storage devices, providing technical assistance and equipment operating data to assist in the development of criteria and to inform EPA on the IT equipment capabilities.

ENERGY STAR qualified IBM servers:

Effective December 31, 2010, IBM withdrew from marketing the following IBM System x product families. After this date, the products are no longer available directly from IBM. They may be obtained on an as-available basis through IBM Business Partners, resellers, or distributors.