After the Australian Federal government introduced carbon tax ( maybe most of the countries already introduced or will introduce), companies started thinking about their IT carbon footprint.
Recently one of my clients asked me how much electricity their HP blade enclosure is consuming and how much more it takes if they add 3 more blades. I thought it would be hard to calculate but after some investigation, I found a couple of nice tools from HP
- HP Blade PowerSizer Tool
- HP Power Advisor ( Refer HP Power calculator ( advisor) tool explained)
A quick and easy way to size your HP Blade system p-class and c-class infrastructure. HP has developed this unique sizer tool to provide value for planning, ordering components and preparing a site for delivery and installation of HP BladeSystem solutions.
The HP BladeSystem Power Sizer assists facilities teams and IT staff in sizing their power infrastructure to meet the needs of an HP BladeSystem solution. Based on actual component level power measurements of a system stressed to maximum capability the BladeSystem Power Sizer enables the facilities team to effectively plan for the power consumption and heat load of an HP BladeSystem.
The sizer allows a customer to select the type and number of components within each Blade Server and Blade Enclosure and see the effect of the changes on the power consumption and heat loading.
Values obtained from the BladeSystem Sizer tool are measured with all components stressed to 100% load and is intended for facilities planning purposes only. Actual power consumption will vary with application type, application utilization and ambient temperature.
I have installed on Windows XP desktop. It doesn’t require a reboot.
and click on “Setup.exe” to start the installation of HP BladeSystem Power Sizing Tool
Click next and then accept the License agreement in next screen
Enter User name and Organisation as usual like any other standard software installation
Then select on which drive you would like to install, like C: or D:
Then click install and then click on Finish to finalise the installation.
Then you launch the application from start- programs- HP BladeSystem Power Sizing Tool
Then create profile at first launch by entering Name, email, customer and country.
Next screen will be as follows. Click on build Solution” to create your own configuration
To directly jump onto enclosure and start entering details, navigate to the enclosure in the left pane and enter your hardware configuration. There are many things needs to fill up.
Select Enclosure type and configuration type accordingly.
BTO - Build to order - This is something HP sells standard but they build when they receive the order from customer.
CTO- Configure to Order – This is something you select configuration and order to HP
(Note: I am not 100% sure, please comment if you know better)
Then select how interconnect modules are spread in your enclosure and their models.
Select On Board admin, if you have two, select redundant.
Cooling fans #, to get the exact number, login to your enclosure via OA, navigate to “Power and Thermal- Thermal subsystem”, you can see the number of fans installed and their status in the enclosure.
Most of the details, you get from OA.
Drag the screen down and enter details based on what you have select in above steps for “How you want to configure”, next screen gives the ability to either configure same blades in the whole enclosure or let you update each blade model.
After entering all details, click on “Update calculator”, to go to the report page.
The report will be something similar to following, it gives you all values like Total Input power, total input current etc…
You can click on BOM to generate the bill of materials, print and save.
This tool may not be useful for new models of hardware, if you have new models of hardware, refer HP Power Advisor
P.S: Please feel free to comment with your feedback
P.S: Please feel free to comment with your feedback
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