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The Greening of IT
230 How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment

■ Allocate less power and cooling infrastructure to IBM servers.
■ Lower power usage on select IBM servers.
■ Plan for the future by viewing trends of power usage over time.
■ Determine power usage for all components of a rack.

Having a better understanding of energy usage across your data center can

■ Identify energy usage.
■ Measure cooling costs accurately.
■ Monitor IT costs across components.
■ Manage by department and user.

Figure A.2 indicates some of the server energy monitoring and man-
agement options available from the AEM tool, for example, monitoring,
collecting, measuring, and trending server power and energy use, man-
aging server power use, and developing better strategies to have contin-
uous improvement of your data center operations. ptg

Source: IBM Active Energy Manager Product
Figure A.2 Trend server energy use chart from AEM Tool