HP Insight Control Power Management

  • Course overview

This 2-day course provides students with the introductory skills needed to effectively manage power within your data center infrastructure.

Course objectives

  • Describe HP ProLiant and BladeSystem power management tools and capabilities
  • Describe the benefits and components of HP Insight Control power management
  • Describe the licensing and update options available for HP Insight Control Software 6
  • Explain how HP Insight Control provides a complete power management solution

Course outline

Module 0: Course Overview

Module 1: Power Management Overview

  • Introduction to Power Management
  • Why Do We Need to Manage Power?

Module 2: BladeSystem Power Management Features

  • Power Management with the OA
  • Dynamic Power Savings mode
  • Power management with iLO-2/iLO-3

Module 3: Installing and Configuring

  • Describe the hardware and software requirements for using the HP Insight Control power management products
  • Explain the process of installing and configuring HP Insight Control power management
  • Explain the process for discovering a data center’s physical and power delivery devices
  • Intelligent Power Discovery
  • Describe the configuration steps for a server

Module 4: ProLiant Power Management Features

  • ProLiant Power Regulator tools
  • HP Dynamic Power Capping
  • HP Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping
  • Power Capping as part of a data center planning and provisioning strategy

Module 5: Insight Control Power Management Features

  • Defining the contents of a rack
  • Describing the layout of the data center
  • Power and thermal monitoring and reporting
  • Spatial and thermal infrastructure views and editor
  • Data Center Power Control – configuration
  • Group Dynamic Power Capping

Module 6: HP Power Advisor and Power Sizer tools

  • Provide an overview of the HP Power Sizer tool
  • Provide an Overview of the HP Power Advisor tool

Module 7: Support & Troubleshooting

  • Powering c7000 enclosures
  • List the available documentation and online resources for HP Insight Control Power Management
  • List the HP support and services available for HP Insight Control
  • Identify some of the known issues