Five Ways to Reduce Data Centre Server Power Consumption

This Paper Courtesy: The Green Grid - Get connected to Efficient IT

A significant reduction in energy usage can be made by moving away from a mindset that all servers have to be powered on at all times regardless of use, to one where a service is always available regardless of server state. With use of the commonly available tools, server energy consumption can be reduced without impacting ongoing operations, capital budgets or system reliability.

This document only addresses changes that can be made at the server level. Other white papers from The Green Grid will address power, cooling, airflow, consolidation, virtualization and a host of other mechanisms to increase efficiency elsewhere in the data center. Reducing energy use at the point of consumption (the server) provides benefits at all other levels by reducing load on power and cooling facilities which in turn reduces their own energy use.