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Managing Power and Cooling with Virtualization

Today's green energy initiatives have prompted a fresh look at a core data center design element: power consumption. Projects are now designed from day zero with power and cooling as a critical component, and server, storage, and even software decisions are made based on proposed energy costs. Virtualization plays a crucial role in this new era by allowing consolidation and workload migration, thereby creating a dynamic datacenter that can respond to changes in energy consumption and environmental conditions. In this session we will evaluate the integration of data center power and cooling tools with the capabilities of VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3, including migrating workloads based on power demands and cooling conditions. The following topics will be covered:
- Understanding and evaluating your current Power usage
- Best practices for optimizing power and cooling in your data center
- Using power monitoring and management features in new Dell servers
- Using virtualization feature like live migration, dynamic resource scheduling and dynamic power management to optimize power consumption
- Optimizing your storage for power consumption and data center efficiency

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Paul Rad( Dell,Inc. ), Timothy Webb( Dell, Inc. ), John Pflueger( Dell, Inc. )

Dr. John Pflueger manages the Dell
technical strategy for facility and system
thermals, focusing on ways to improve
efficiency. He has 16 years of experience
in product development, product marketing,
and product management. John has a
Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.

Tim Webb is the Director of Dell's Global Virtualization and Data Center Optimization Consulting Practices. He has a degree in Systems Management Engineering from Princeton University.

Paul Rad is the practice executive for virtualization
and data center optimization for
Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services.
He has master's degrees in both Computer
Engineering and Computer Science from the
University of Texas.