Today's datacenters require more and more electricity and air conditioning, to maintain the 24 hour a day, seven day a week services that they provide to their organizations this results in ever growing utility bills and an ever increasing impact on the environment. IceWEB's Advanced Power Management can be used to reduce the operational costs of the RAID storage system, while ensuring continuous availability to data. As companies expand their data storage capacity and capability, those assets must be available at all times. However, keeping this storage continuously active increases both electricity and cooling costs. In fact, during just three years of operation, these costs can exceed the initial acquisition costs of those storage systems. IceWEB RAID Advanced Power Management gives our clients IT departments the ability to keep storage systems online and available while dramatically reducing their requisite power needs.
IceWEB’s Advanced Power Management capabilities are implemented using standard SCSI commands, so RAID power savings is not dependent on any particular drive manufacturer or drive type. Advanced Power Management can be used to increase the energy efficiency of both SAS and SATA disk drives. By intelligently identifying, grouping, and understanding how the physical drives are accessed allows our clients to design policy based power management to “spin down” and “spin up” those drives based on when your application needs the devices not a clock.
Using an intelligent power management ensures that our devices spins drives up and down at pre-determined usage intervals. By intelligently and efficiently managing power distribution and drive spin, companies gain the ability to reduce their utility spend, in fact, while typical power savings will depend on the specific application of the Advanced Power Management policy, RAID storage systems can reduce power consumption by up to 40 percent. IceWEB’s Advanced Power Management features include:
- Standards-based hard disk drive power savings settings
- Intelligent policy-based, parallel drive power management
- Manual command- based power management via StorView controller based or host based management software
- 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
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