View the Power Dataset

The Power dataset provides information about the energy consumed by computer systems and the energy used to cool the environment in which they operate. Organizations spend substantial financial resources to operate the computer equipment that makes users more productive. In many cases computers are left to run around the clock, continually consuming electricity for direct energy usage and the operation of building cooling equipment. In such cases, it may be possible for those organizations to save money through the use of automated power management technologies. Even on virtualized platforms, savings of both compute resources and energy are possible through such techniques.

The energy consumption in the visualized community is analyzed and actual user and application behavior is compared with the system power state to determine where savings might be possible. This information may assist the IT architect in reducing overall virtualized resource requirements and in realizing energy savings on both physical and virtualized computer platforms through automated power management.

Power Dataset Perspectives

Each dataset is provided with one or more Perspectives. See View Datasets for more information on dataset perspectives and how to customize your perspective display.

Basic

This perspective provides energy consumption information for physical computing systems in each collection in the visualized environment. For each collection of systems, data that helps to understand the direct electricity used, the indirect energy costs for cooling the environment around the computers and the total operational energy costs are shown.

Average System Energy Consumption Detail

This perspective provides more technical data regarding the typical energy used to operate each physical computer system in the collection. Energy consumed is shown in the average direct electricity consumption in power-on periods as well as in total energy consumed over a typical month.

Total Energy Consumption Detail

This perspective provides more technical data regarding the typical energy used to operate each collection of physical computer systems as a whole. Energy consumed is shown in the total direct electricity consumption in power-on periods, as well as in total energy consumed over a typical month by the collection.

Power Management Savings Potential

This perspective provides an analysis of the energy that might be saved if the power-on profile for the computer systems in the collection were optimized through active power management technology. Savings potential is calculated from an optimal use standpoint, where the maximum possible savings are realized through SysTrack Power Manager.

Average System Energy Profile

This perspective depicts an energy profile for the average physical computer system in each collection in the visualized environment. For each collection of systems, the observed on-time is compared with the optimized on-time achievable through SysTrack Power Manager. The potential for additional energy savings is also quantified.

Electricity Waste

Groups of systems in the upper right are extremely wasteful on electricity use, which can be recovered by implementing SysTrack Power Manager on all of the desktops and laptops.