RAID Advanced Power Management
Efficient, Intelligent Power Management
Servers and storage consume a massive amount of electricity and air conditioning,
usually powered on for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As a result,
enterprises have growing utility bills and an increasing impact on the
environment. In many applications, the storage is not required to be active full
time. In these cases, Xyratex Advanced Power Management can be used to reduce
the operational costs of the RAID storage system, while ensuring continuous
availability to data. Xyratex Advanced Power Management is intelligent power
management, maintaining data access and integrity while enabling lower power
consumption. Xyratex Advanced Power Management can reduce energy consumption by
up to 40%.
Technical Specification
Features
- Standards-based hard disk drive power savings settings
- Intelligent policy-based, parallel drive power management
- Manual command- based power management via StorView and Xyratex Command Line
Reference
- User-configurable interval for screening inactive drives and schedulable patrol
to ensure efficient access to data when needed
- Non-disruptive power management with fast spinning up of drives when data
is accessed, and file systems remaining active during spin-down
- Available for any drive type or manufacturer
- StorView controller based or host based management software