Analyzing server power consumption and costs

MVolo's Blog — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:53:44 GMT

For many data centers, the cost of powering servers has become a top budget item. The first step to reducing

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Steve M — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:33:33 GMT

Nice read. Can you use the power monitoring tool to monitor power usage remotely?

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Mike Volodarsky — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:50:06 GMT

Yes, definitely.

The beauty of the tool is that it exports the real-time data to Windows performance counters. At this point, you can monitor power usage along with other performance data remotely through tools like PerfMon.exe, or schedule data collectors to analyze it later.

We use our own internal tools to do pretty heavy monitoring and correlation of perf data, but there are a plethora of Microsoft and other tools that work well with performance counters.

Best,

Mike

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Atut — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:16:03 GMT

Good post..

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Srinivas Vivek — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:14:08 GMT

Great Work!! A great app for the Watts Up Meter. Software is professional class. Keep it up

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digish — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:34:27 GMT

Hi Mike, This is Very nice utility. Is there a way to start and stop the export on demand, rather then specifying the fixed period!? Also where does the exported log generated? Basically, I want to export the power usage data during the the running of an App. So start before launching the App and stop once App finishes. Thanks, D (digish_r@yahoo.com)

Analyzing server power consumption and costs

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mike — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:11:21 GMT

Enjoyed this post, Mike. I'm trying to find out how much power an average web server consumes for a day and how to transfer that into dollars. I'm writing story on cloud computing from an eco-friendly perspective. Look forward to your response.