Power Capping in Cisco UCS
You can control the maximum power consumption on a server through power capping, as well as manage the power allocation in the Cisco UCS Manager for blade servers, UCS C220 and C240 M5/M6, and C480 M5/C480 M5 ML, C225 M6, C245 M6, UCS C220 M7 , UCS C240 M7, UCS C245 M8 rack servers, UCS Mini, and mixed UCS domains.
Cisco UCS Manager supports power capping on the following:
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Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects 9108 100G (Cisco UCS X-Series Direct)
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UCS 6500 Series Fabric Interconnects
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UCS 6400 Series Fabric Interconnects
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UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects
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UCS 6324 Series Fabric Interconnects (Cisco UCS Mini)
You can use Policy Driven Chassis Group Power Cap, or Manual Blade Level Power Cap methods to allocate power that applies to all of the servers in a chassis.
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Cisco UCSX-9508 Chassis supports Policy Driven Chassis Group Cap. When you choose to select Policy Driven Chassis Group Cap, Cisco UCS Manager calculates the power allotment for Cisco UCSX-9508 Chassis and when you choose to select Manual Blade Level Power Cap, Chassis Management Controller (CMC) calculates the power allotment for Cisco UCSX-9508 Chassis. |
Cisco UCS Manager provides the following power management policies to help you allocate power to your servers:
Power Management Policies |
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Power Policy |
Specifies the redundancy for power supplies in all chassis in a Cisco UCS domain. |
Power Control Policies |
Specifies the priority to calculate the initial power allocation for each blade in a chassis. |
Power Save Policy |
Globally manages the chassis to maximize energy efficiency or availability. |
Cisco UCSX-9508 Chassis Power Extended Policy |
Manages the chassis to maximize energy efficiency or availability. Power Extended Policy is effective only when we have PSU Redundant Policy Mode. For example, the total power available can be extended when we have N+1, N+2 and Grid to PSU Redundancy modes. |
Cisco UCSX-9508 Chassis Fan Control Policy |
Manages you to control the fan speed to bring down server power consumption and noise levels. |
Global Power Allocation |
Specifies the Policy Driven Chassis Group Power Cap or the Manual Blade Level Power Cap to apply to all servers in a chassis. |
Global Power Profiling |
Specifies how the power cap values of the servers are calculated. If it is enabled, the servers will be profiled during discovery through benchmarking. This policy applies when the Global Power Allocation Policy is set to Policy Driven Chassis Group Cap. |