HPE Power Advisor
When you are designing and expanding data centers or planning rack deployments, accurate estimates of power requirements are essential to ensure appropriate levels of power and cooling as well as to determine power-related operating costs for the customer’s budgetary considerations.
HPE Power Advisor is an easy-to-use tool that estimates data center power requirements for server and storage configurations. A downloadable version and online Windows application are available. This tool allows you to:
- Accurately estimate power consumption of HPE server and storage products.
- Select the appropriate power supplies and other system components.
- Configure and plan power usage at a system, rack, and multi-rack levels.
- Access useful tools including a cost-of-ownership calculator, power report, and BOM.
1. Navigate to HPE Power Advisor
2. Create a new rack infrastructure based on 230V.
3. Choose a 42U rack.
4. Add a UPS to the rack. Where in a rack is the UPS best placed?
5. Add a HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server.
6. Click on the Config button in the top right of the window and select the following server components.
- An Intel Xeon processor suitable for a performance intensive workload.
- Low capaciy SSDs
- 2 * FC HBA
- A Smart Array adapter suitable for a performance intensive workload.
7. Add storage expansion shelf to host an external DAS using SFF drives.
8. Add two SN6600B SAN switches
9. Add a 3PAR 8200 2 node array.
10. Produce a BOM in Microsoft Excel for this solution.
11. Save your solution to your local computer. (This can be uploaded and modified in the future.)