Watts a matter with their marketing?
Thursday May 17, 2007
...sorry for the bad pun, but wattage is a huge concern at most datacenters.
- Vendors need to state watts/performance at full performance on benchmark and not watts/performance at low utilisation. Datacenter managers must plan and provision a datacenter knowing the peak watts. There is no way they could count on poor (low) utilisation of servers to keep their datacenters from frying.
- Need to use metrics of Watt/performance so it matches $/performance. I've blogged about this before: http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/power_performance_metrics
- Stop selling the advantage of brand new latest systems and low utilisation. It matters not that there are lots of sloppy low utilisation datacenters, because anyone buying new stuff if they are not running at 50% or more are just wasteful and not worth taking any advice from. I've blogged about this before: http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/the_total_tyranny_of_low
These are some of thoughts after talking to a dozen customers this week.
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