Dell has confirmed that its PowerEdge 11th Generation Servers namely R610 and R710 meet the EPA Energy Star specifications. Dell is believed to have balanced energy efficiency and performance of its servers. For this purpose, the company is claimed to have focused on the measurement, control, design and reporting of the servers to obtain energy-efficient infrastructures that cut-down on the cost of ownership.
Powered by Energy Smart architecture, these 11th generation servers offer control and monitoring in real time. Furthermore, the servers employs advanced features like Active Power controller and extensive power characterization to deliver optimum platform-level tradeoffs between consumption of power and performance.
“Dell is committed to helping companies increase data center performance while reducing operational expenses by supporting the Energy Star for Servers effort. We support the EPA in ushering in a new era of awareness and innovative thinking around solving the industry’s energy challenge,†stated Sally Stevens, Vice President, Platform Marketing, Dell.
With options like right-sized or dynamically provisioned power supplies, the Dell Energy Smart Power Supplies are said to remove nonessential overhead from the server power envelope. This helps in further enhancing its efficiency. Moreover, the Dell Energy Smart System Design employs extensive collection of thermal sensors, high-efficiency voltage regulators, greater venting and airflow, low-flow fan technology and hi-fi resource management to cut-down the power usage of the overall system. At times of low power consumption, the system-level power draw is lowered by the Dell Active Power Controller (DAPC).
Dell bundles up high-efficiency processors along with memory target performance every watt in standards-based servers. Dell Energy Smart Management comprises of power capping, power scheduling, hi-fi power policies and device disablement.
This initiative by Dell of making its servers energy-efficient and meeting the benchmarks set by Energy Star is appreciable.
