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Chapter 1. Product Overview

1.1 PRODUCT INTRODUC TION

Lenovo ThinkServer Smart Grid Technology (hereafter referred to Smart Grid) is a software (not free) associated with Lenovo ThinkServer servers,

which can monitor and manage the power consumption of several Lenovo ThinkServer servers in the corporation network, IDC and so on.

This product is a combination of IT (Information Technology) management and ET (Energy Technology) management, which can provide centralized

remote management of power consumption of the servers supporting Intel Power Node Manager technology.

The process which Smart Grid manages the device power consumption includes: Discover/Import a Device  Monitor the Power Consumption of a

Device  Learn the Characteristics of the Power Consumption Changes  Implement Energy-saving Policies  Analyze the Energy-saving

Conditions  Power Consumption Policy Adjustment Suggestion. This process makes the closed loop full-process management for device power

consumption into a reality, so that the most appropriate energy-saving policy can be determined for each device in order to lower its power consumption.

Smart Grid applies server/browser architecture and is easy to operate, while collecting device power consumption data and performance data can be

done without installing any agent software in the managed servers. This product simply needs to be installed on the server end and the end-users may

use the product through their web browsers.

Reducing the device power consumption, Smart Grid can effectively reduce the power consumption of the whole machine room, in order to realizing

the energy-saving and emission-reduction of green IT.

The new features in Smart Grid include:

1. Monitors the Power Consumption of Device (Group)

Provide a real-time power consumption monitoring function for the device (group), which allows you to master the real-time power consumption at any

time.

Support an auto/manual power consumption control for the device. This system recommends a group of default power consumption control policies on

the basis of existing device power consumption condition; in addition, users can also set different power consumption values for different periods as

needed, in order to refine the management of energy-saving policies. Enable the system to control the device power consumption by activating the

power consumption control policy.

Support the power consumption control based on device group. When an power consumption value is set for a certain group, the system will adjust the

power consumption policy for each device automatically according to the requirement of devices in the group, balancing the performance of each

device in the group while ensuring the group power consumption value not exceed the threshold, so as to guarantee the well business operations.

2. Collects the Device Performance Agentless

The traditional network management system requires an agent software to be installed in the business host to collect performance data, this will cause

new potential troubles to the business host because the agent software itself may have many uncertainties and security problems, moreover, the

installation and maintenance of this agent software will need a big cost for large-scale machine room.

Smart Grid supports the collection of CPU and memory utilization without any agent.

Avoids all impacts on business caused by installing the agent software.

Eliminates the installation, upgrade and maintenance costs due to the agent.

Improves the security of business host.

3. Saves Power without Compromising the Performance

Smart Grid can not only saves the power consumption, but also comprehensively masters the device performance and faults, so as to ensuring

business functioning well while saving the energy, and then realizing the purpose of safe energy-saving.

Monitor the device power consumption while performing the centralized monitoring to the device performance and events.

You can set the performance thresholds as you want.

Auto mail forwarding can be configured in case of important events.