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Idle RHEV Hypervisors save power?

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization tries to save power by consolidating VMs onto fewer hosts. Unlike VMware DPM, hosts remain powered on — still consuming significant datacenter energy. Only vSphere safely powers off unneeded hosts during off-peak periods. Continue reading

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VMware DPM supported by all major server vendors

Today VMware and the top server hardware manufacturers (Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and NEC) announced full support for VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM). If you have considered using VMware DPM  in your datacenter but have hesitated due to lack of … Continue reading

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