There are many approaches you can consider when aiming for a greener IT environment. From an efficient server management perspective there are several. One approach is to cut energy consumption by reducing the number of physical servers. This can be done by decreasing the number of physical processors and implementing higher performance processors in your physical servers. Then you can increase the number of logical servers using virtualization technology. This will make your business environment more energy efficient while maintaining the same levels of performance. Another approach is to simply keep the power consumption of each individual server down as low as possible.Toreduce server energy consumption to a minimum, PRIMERGY has implemented a range of featured solutions. To find out more about PRIMERGYs energy efficiency technologies, please click the links below. Consolidate servers by virtualization Reduce the energy consumed by the server itself Cool your servers efficiently Manage airflow in the data center Visualize your servers power consumption Fujitsus Green know-how contributes to a greener IT environment
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Not only does server consolidation by virtualization more efficiently utilize system resources, it improves scalability. It also saves the energy previously use by servers which are no longer required. This in turn cuts down on the cost and energy consumption of air conditioning, as server installation space is also reduced. Virtualization delivers significant energy and cooling cost savings to your enterprise through server consolidation. With blade servers, such server consolidation is accomplished in the most power and cost efficient manner.
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As heat is the most important issue in blade server design, the superior cooling of BX620 avoids channeling hot air across hard disk drives or excessive rotation of fans. The cool air intake first flows over the HDDs and then over the processors. (figure 3.)
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Future plans include comprehensive evaluation of power use conditions collected by this technology, together with temperature distribution within the data center and air conditioning power consumption. The aim is to automatically optimize CPU control in accordance with the server workload conditions. This will lead to energy efficiency throughout the data center or office environments where servers are placed. Collaboration with virtualization technology is planned so that resource use can be reduced by centralizing operations on a smaller number of servers. This would allow reductions in number of physical servers used in lower workload periods, like overnight. In addition even aggressive power savings are achievable by controlling the air conditioning to focus only on cooling those servers that are in operation.
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