Power Systems Energy Management

IBM's goal is to provide you the most energy efficient computing environment possible. POWER processor-based systems deliver leadership performance per watt and PowerVM™ enables consolidation of energy-wasting, underutilized servers. In addition, IBM's POWER6™ architecture with EnergyScale™ technology can provide unique energy management capabilities. These features, enabled through the IBM Active Energy Manager extension of IBM Director™, allow users to measure the power usage of system components and adjust policies toward the energy-efficient operation of the server environment.

POWER6 Processors

IBM's goal is to provide clients the most efficient computing environment and sustain leadership in energy conservation and management by continuing to deliver power-management technologies. With these technologies, systems use less power, generate less heat and use less energy to cool the system. IBM's POWER6™ architecture with EnergyScale™ technology provides features such as power trending, power-saving, capping of maximum power and thermal measurement. These features, enabled via Active Energy Manager under the IBM Director™ console, allow the customer to measure the energy of the system and direct policies toward the energy-efficient operation of the server, while the underlying hardware automatically adjusts to deliver the desired operating solution.

IBM POWER6™ processor based servers deliver outstanding performance per watt and innovative virtualization technologies. A feature called Live Partition Mobility provides the ability to move running partitions from one POWER6 server to another providing the capability to conserve power by moving workloads off underutilized servers to achieve optimal system utilization and energy efficiency. POWER6 processor-based systems will be able to work together to help optimize system utilization, improve application availability, balance critical workloads across multiple systems and respond to ever-changing business demands.

Together, IBM and our clients will continue to champion energy efficiency in the data center.

Active Energy Manager

Active Energy Manager is an extension of IBM Director 5.20.2 that enables platform monitoring and reporting of energy usage across supported Power servers within the IT infrastructure. Active Energy Manager enables you to measure, track and control server energy consumption, which can help you understand how energy is used within the data center, and provides the insight required to optimize your servers and their workloads for the best performance. The graphical user interface monitors and displays the collected power measurement data for individual servers. Additionally, it provides analysis of long-term power trends for all servers in the data center with Active Energy Manager installed. This assists in the timely planning of costly facilities upgrades so they can be implemented before server power and temperature grow beyond the capacity of the data center.

More accurate power-consumption predictions can help enable you to:

• Reduce the infrastructure required for redundancy.
• Allow more servers to be installed on smaller power feeds.
• Lower overall data center capital and operation costs.

IBM Rear Door Heat exchanger

The IBM Rear Door Heat exchanger is designed to remove heat generated from the back of your computer systems before it enters the room. The efficient IBM Rear Door Heat exchanger, which takes heat from the rack with water, can substantially reduce the heat load coming from any IBM enterprise rack. Advantages include:

• No fans or electricity needed, alleviating the chance for mechanical fan failure.
• Passive design, allowing systems to air-cool without opening or removing the door.
• Condensation prevention.
• Attaches to the back of the rack and does not change the footprint of the racking.

BladeCenter and Power Architecture blades

Designed to address thermal concerns without sacrificing performance, IBM BladeCenter® technology leads the industry in innovation to address these current and future trends. Because the IBM BladeCenter infrastructure utilizes energy-efficient components and a shared infrastructure architecture, clients can realize lower power consumption when compared to many alternative designs. Calibrated Vectored Cooling capabilities enable dual paths of air to each component to improve uptime and longevity while also reducing wasteful air movement. The balance of optimized airflow, innovative blade form-factor design and power-efficient processors provide thermal management without the need for additional fans. Low power consumption and low heat output allow the packing of more servers into tight power and cooling envelopes.

The IBM Power Configurator tool can help provide better sizing information for your solutions. The Power Configurator allows you to estimate building and data-center electrical costs before you make a purchase. By allowing total customer control of all server power options, the Power Configurator gives an accurate display of required data-center electrical requirements for servers. Take the power challenge using the IBM Power Calculator, and discover the energy savings POWER Architecture blades and BladeCenter chassis can bring to your business.