OpenManage Power Center Demo Guide for

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1 OpenManage Power Center Demo Guide for

2 Contents Introduction... 3 Lab 1 Demo Environment... 6 Lab 2 Change the default settings... 7 Lab 3 Discover the devices... 8 Lab 4 Group Creation and Adding devices to Rack Lab 5 Rack utilization, Power & Temperature History and Thresholds Lab 6 Advanced Filters Lab 7 Policies Lab 8 Reports Lab 9 Device location based on physical location modelling Lab 10 PDU outlet assignment Lab 11 Analysis and Planning Page 2 of 37

3 Introduction Dell OpenManage Power Center () management console provides increased visibility over power consumption, anomalies, and utilization through fine-grained instrumentation. This enables increased control, improved rack density, faster response times, greater accuracy, and broader decision-making intelligence than would otherwise be possible. When used with a 12th and 13th generation PowerEdge server with an idrac Enterprise license on a system with an Intel chipset, leverages Intel Node Manager technology for platform-level power reporting and capping of Intel chipsets. Power Center then communicates with the Dell idrac on each managed server to provide node, rack, row or data-center level aggregation of power-management data, as well as execution of control policy - making it easy for IT professionals to identify areas to gain efficiencies and cut wasteful costs. Latest version of is v3.2 and is available as a free download. Key Benefits of Dell OpenManage Power Center are: Measure energy consumed by IT equipment at a server, rack, row, or room level Mitigate Risk by reducing power consumption per a pre-defined policies that maximize the uptime of business critical applications by reducing non-critical consumption Increase data center density by identifying racks with equipment not using the power capacity that has been wired into it. When used with Dell PowerEdge servers with an idrac Enterprise license these additional features are available: Enable oversubscribed power supply configurations Customers can set power caps individually or in groups Millisecond fast power capping before tripping a circuit breaker (additional license required for 13th generation Dell servers) Key new features available with 3.2: Hardware Support: o New 13G PowerEdge Servers o Additional PDU models. o Ability to chain PDUs. New power policy based on thermal conditions. Introducing a user customizable dashboard Provision to exclude IP range during device discovery Simplified Group Creation. Page 3 of 37

4 Existing features of which are also available in 3.2: Simple and effective: o Quick and easy installation o HTML UI and Faster responsiveness o Simple to use and learn o Brief Asset Reporting (Service-Tag, Model Name) o Install supported on both Windows & Linux o Browser support : IE 10, IE 11, Firefox and Chrome Agent-free monitoring and management: Generic: o Support for Dell 11th, 12th, & 13th generation of PowerEdge servers o Support for PowerEdge VRTX Chassis power monitoring and management o Power monitoring and capping for M1000e and VRTX - chassis level o PDU support and group power calculation based on the PDU o Discover and Correlate blades-idrac and Chassis o View and rearrange rack devices o Power & Thermal monitoring independent of Operating System o Power Monitoring of non-dell servers with a customer purchased license. (For more information on the supported models, refer to user guide) o Dashboard for quick view of power headroom and device usage o Provide the power and space utilization within the racks. o Easy access to Device/Virtual Groups summary, events, policies and power/thermal threshold settings o Re-usable search queries for Devices, Policies and Events o Schedule discovery tasks and option to deactivate tasks during peak hours o Reports: Pre-defined reports templates to easily create, run, and export reports REST API support for reports Reporting stranded power in the data center o Log application events/errors for the end user o Power Control Tasks: To manage remote devices and control power spikes during power-on operations o Configurable chassis inventory schedule and immediate execution on need basis o Configurable user interface session time for a secure console o View, analyze, and report the subsystem power and Compute Usage for Second (CUPS) values: Page 4 of 37

5 Power Consumption CPU Subsystem 12 th Generation and beyond Power Consumption Memory Subsystem 12 th Generation and beyond CPU Utilization Server 13 th Generation and beyond Memory Bandwidth Utilization Server 13 th Generation and beyond I/O Bandwidth Utilization Server 13 th Generation and beyond o Introducing Analysis and Planning Features: Analyze the server power characteristics per server model for future expansion. Assist in capacity expansion and placement suggestions. Identify the underutilized servers in the data center based on power consumption pattern. Identify the potential cooling concerns in the data center. o Display PDU socket connection mapping with the device. o Schedule database backup. The backup data can be used as a restore point in case of a disk failure. o View real-time system airflow history of the Dell s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers. o Replicate the data center hierarchy on the idrac location based on physical location modelling. o 24 pre-defined templates to create, customize, run and export reports o Modified filters to customize the results based on distinctive needs and environment. Page 5 of 37

6 Lab 1 Demo Environment The OpenManage Power Center () demo environment is of live data from the simulated devices which consists of Dell PowerEdge R620 and R630 servers and Dell 6605 PDUs. 1. Open by clicking on the OpenManage Power Center shortcut on the desktop. 2. Provide username (demouser) and password (Password01) at the log in screen. 3. starts on the Home Portal page. Note: - Warning events may be triggered when you open the demo environment for the first time. It is recommended to delete these warnings. Page 6 of 37

7 Lab 2 Change the default settings In this lab, you will be able to set the polling intervals, default units for power and temperature and currency units. 1. Click Settings, and then Monitoring Tab 2. Make sure the Monitor all device and groups is checked. Select the desired values for polling intervals. You may change the unit of measurement in which the power and temperature values must be displayed in console. 3. Click Save Page 7 of 37

8 Lab 3 Discover the devices 1. Click Tasks-> Discovery tasks->new Discovery 2. Provide a task name (New Discovery) and add the range of IP address (Start: , End: , Subnet Mask: ). You can even exclude some IPs by choosing exclude range. Make sure you have selected the Device IP range before clicking next button 3. On next screen click Add if you don t have any previous protocol information. Page 8 of 37

9 4. Create an IPMI Protocol Profile by Providing Profile name, Description, IPMI user name (root), IPMI password (calvin) and without changing the default IPMI key. Click Finish 5. Again Add another profile for SNMPv1v2c by providing the community string as public 6. Select both protocol and click next. 7. Select Run Now in scheduled task screen and click Next. 8. You may review the information before Finish button click. Page 9 of 37

10 Discovery will take a few minutes to complete. You can see the progress and devices found in task details. You may navigate to any page while the discovery in progress. Also you can add any number of tasks. You can see discovered devices in Devices->All Devices page Page 10 of 37

11 Lab 4 Group Creation and Adding devices to Rack Navigate to Device->Managed Groups 1. Click on Add New 2. Selected Group : Root 3. Provide the details as below Name: DC2 Type: Datacenter Power Capacity: Click Save 5. Select the newly created DC2 6. Provide name (Room1), select type as Room, Power capacity and click Save. 7. Expand DC2, select newly created Room1 8. Provide name (Aisle1), select type as Aisle, Power capacity and click Save. 9. Expand DC2, Room1, Aisle1 Page 11 of 37

12 10. Provide name (Rack), select type as Rack, Space Capacity 21, Power capacity 8000, Select replicate group count, start index 101, group count 10 and click Save. Close the window by clicking cancel button or close icon. 11. Expand All levels, select one rack and click Manage Rack Page 12 of 37

13 12. Click Add to Rack Slot 13. Select servers from the list ( to ) and click Next 14. Accept the default slot numbers (Auto) and click Finish. 15. Click Close Page 13 of 37

14 16. Add devices to some more racks. (Repeat step 11 to step 15) Page 14 of 37

15 Lab 5 Rack utilization, Power & Temperature History and Thresholds 1. Select any top level group (here Aisle1) and click the Rack Utilization link. 2. You can view the power and space utilization on Actual as well as Percentage values. Page 15 of 37

16 3. Select Rack(101) and click Threshold from lower pane. 4. Provide the warning and critical values and save it. If the power and temperature values cross the warning or critical values, respective events will be generated. These events can be view from Events tab or Left menu Events. (You may test this feature by lowering the values in threshold or adding more servers to the rack) Page 16 of 37

17 5. Select any Device\Group from All Devices\Managed Group and click the Power or Thermal History. (Or View History from Thresholds tab in lower pane) can plot up to 1 year of power and thermal data. (13G servers onwards you can see resource utilization history as well) Page 17 of 37

18 Lab 6 Advanced Filters In order to search and save the query, you can user filters 1. Go to Devices->All Devices page and click Filter 2. Provide the Filter Name and from Device type select PDU. Click Save and Run 3. You may clear the filter by clicking Clear Filter in All Device page Page 18 of 37

19 Lab 7 Policies In this lab, you will configure power cap policies in. Power Center supports three policy types: Static Manually set the power cap for each device in a rack or chassis. Dynamic Power Center dynamically allocates the power cap for each device in a group (Data Center, Room, Aisle, Rack, or chassis). Thermal In case of any thermal issue occur in data center, this policy will bring down the power usage to extremely low. 1. In the left pane, click Policies. 2. Menu, click New Policy. 3. Select a Group or Device, enter a name for the policy in the Policy Name text box and click Next. 4. Select the type of the policy (DYNAMIC) from the Policy Type drop-down list. From the Power monitoring values are for a fixed time period drop-down list, select the power cap values (Previous day). Enter a value in the Percentage of Range text box and Click Next to continue. Page 19 of 37

20 5. In the Power Cap Priorities window, select an option from the Priority drop-down list to set the capping priority for each device in the group and Click Next to continue. 6. In the Power Policy Schedule window, set the monitoring schedule for the policy and Click Next. 7. In the Summary window, click Finish to save the policy. The new policy is effective immediately. Page 20 of 37

21 Note that you will be able to see a policy line in Power history window if any policy is active on that group. Try yourself: Create a STATIC or THERMAL policy for any other group. Page 21 of 37

22 Lab 8 Reports In this lab, we will run a predefined reports from the information contained in the database. 1. Select Reports ->New Reports-> Power Hoarders 2. Provide a report name and the duration of data sample and select next. 3. Choose the required attributes and the row count of report, sorting attribute and its order. Click Next. Page 22 of 37

23 4. Click Finish to Save and Run the report. 5. By clicking the Results tab in lower pane you will be able to see the report result. You can maximize the window to view the report in full screen. Report result can be saved to a CSV file format by clicking the Export link. You can again run the report by clicking Run in the Summary tab Try yourself: Create a compare report by selecting Devices\Group. Page 23 of 37

24 Lab 9 Device location based on physical location modelling idrac or CMC provide configurable fields to let the user specify the physical system location in a data center. There exist a set of users who had pain to populate this information. This feature aims to make the job of capturing the physical organization of the data center easier in and vice versa. 1. Go to Devices-> Managed Group 2. Select the datacenter 3. Click Update Device Location button in lower pane i. Click Update button. ii. Upon completion you will get the device status summary Page 24 of 37

25 One of the advantage of Device location feature is you can re-create the hierarchy at any time. There is an option in discovery task wizard to do that. 1. Delete the existing Managed group contents from Device-> managed group-> Delete 2. Create a new Discovery task by providing the name and discovery range. Make sure you have checked Replicate Device Path box. 3. Follow the other screens as mentioned in Lab You can notice that the group hierarchy created automatically in Devices > Managed Group. (You have to set the Estimated Max Power and Rack capacity as soon as the task is finished ) Page 25 of 37

26 Lab 10 PDU outlet assignment It is difficult to know how servers are connected into the Datacenter s power grid via the PDUs at the rack. Additionally, for non-monitored devices, it s difficult to measure that a device in a certain rack slot is using x amount of power. However can detail the PDU connections to the various devices in the rack, which will aid in power usage reporting when the customer has bought and implemented per-outlet metered PDUs. 1. Select any rack in managed group and click manage rack. 2. In associated devices tab, click add to rack. 3. Select one of the PDU and click finish, close the Manage rack wizard. 4. Go to all devices tab and click Add New. 5. Add an unsupported device with following details. 6. Add the newly created device to the rack that you have selected in step 1 7. In managed Group tab select the rack that have PDU associated in step 3 Page 26 of 37

27 8. Select Outlet Assignment 9. Click assign 10. Select the PE2900 model and Apply. 11. Click Close. 12. You can see power threshold will be visible for unsupported device. Page 27 of 37

28 Lab 11 Analysis and Planning From 3.1 onwards users will be able to do the analysis and planning based on Center monitored data. Server Characteristics Power consumption per server model is very useful for planning future expansion in the data center, both from a capacity and a power planning perspective. Current practice is to use a nameplate value supplied by the manufacturer, or an estimate that typically tends to be very conservative. Since has access to power consumption information across all devices in the data center, it can characterize power consumption across server models based on actual usage. This characterization will be reflective of the typical configuration deployed in the data center and will account for the typical workload that gets executed in the setup, due to the fact that it is based on actual data. 1. On the left tree click on analysis->server Characteristics. 2. You may select the graphical view to see the power distribution. Page 28 of 37

29 3. You can view the Active idle power and peak power for per server models Page 29 of 37

30 Underutilized Servers One of the ways can help customers is identifying underutilized ( ghost ) servers in the data center based on power consumption patterns. With a global view of power consumption across devices in the data center, helps identify servers that are running little to no workloads, and can be consolidated. 1. On the left pane click on analysis > Underutilized Servers (It may take some time to estimate and load the underutilized servers) 2. You can change the Utilization Classifications by modifying the settings. Page 30 of 37

31 Power & Space Analysis In the left pane, click Analysis > Power Analysis. The Power & Space Analysis page is displayed. Capacity Planning Allows you to identify the number of servers of a specific device model that can be accommodated in the selected group. 1. In the left pane, click Analysis and then click Power Analysis. The Power & Space Analysis page is displayed. 2. In the Capacity Planning section, click Launch. From the Group Selection tab, select the data centers by clicking + to analyze the availability of power and space. Click Next. 3. In the Model Selection tab, the server models are displayed in Server Model Selection section. Select the required server model for analysis. Click Next. Page 31 of 37

32 4. In the Capacity Allocation section, the analysis result is displayed. Click Add Another Model to repeat the same procedure with a different server model. Click Next. 5. The summary of the analysis is displayed in the screen. Click Finish. Page 32 of 37

33 Placement Suggestions Based on Available Power and Space Provides placement suggestions based on the available power and space availability. 1. In the left pane, click Analysis and then click Power Analysis. 2. In the Placement Suggestions Based on Available Power and Space section, click Launch. 3. From the Group Selection tab, select the data centers by clicking + to analyze the availability of power and space. Click Next. 4. In the Placement Type tab, select the type of placement required from the drop-down list. The available options are Auto and Manual. By default, Auto option is selected. Select the server model from the Server Model drop-down list for which you require placement suggestions. Enter the number of servers in the Server Count Text field. Select the criteria in which the racks are selected and click Next. Page 33 of 37

34 5. In the Rack Placement tab, information about the availability of power and space before and after allocation is displayed. You can set the weightage of the racks by typing the required value in Weightage column of the Set the rack placement priority section and click Next. 6. The placement suggestions are provided in the Rack Placement Result section. Analyze the result and click Next. Click Add Another Model to repeat the same procedure with a different server model. 7. The summary of the analysis is displayed in the Summary screen. Click Finish. Page 34 of 37

35 Power And Space Gains from Underutilized Server(s). Allows you to estimate the power and space that can be saved from the underutilized servers. 1. In the left pane, click Analysis and then click Power Analysis. 2. In the Power and Space Gains from Underutilized Server(s) section, click Launch. 3. From the Server Selection tab, details about the underutilized servers are displayed. Select the servers by clicking the + next to each server. You can also select all the servers by selecting Consider all underutilized servers option. Click Next. 4. The summary of the analysis is displayed in the Summary screen. Click Finish. Page 35 of 37

36 Cooling Analysis You can use this page to view and analyze the potential cooling issues of all the rooms in the data center. 1. In the Hot Spot Room section, you can view the rooms that are the hottest in the data center. Click on any room that is listed. 2. Room1: Device(s) Under Hot Spot Room window is displayed. This window will give you the hot spot reason and its resolution Page 36 of 37

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