Nov 26
What is Distributed Power Management you ask? DPM is used in your Virtual Infrastructure when the physical hosts are at very low utilization levels. During the night or on the weekends, if I have 8 nodes in a cluster and each of the nodes are running at 10% utilization, that is not a very good use of resources. DPM will vMotion (Live Migrate) your virtual machines to a subset of hosts and power down the hosts that are not needed. I do not have many customers doing this with server workloads. I do see a lot more interest in DPM from customers using Virtual Desktops. Think about it, if I run 8 physical hosts to run all of my desktops in my virtual infrastructure, what happens at 5pm on Friday? Read the rest of this entry »
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