Unified power management architecture

• US 7,861,102 B1
• Filed: 04/30/2007
• Issued: 12/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Wang, Zhikui, Raghavendra, Ramya, Zhu, Xiaoyun, Ranganathan, Parthasarathy, Talwar, Vanish
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Vincent T
• Application Number:
  US11/796,962
• Time in Patent Office: 1,338 Days
• Field of Search: 713/300, 713/320, 713/322, 713/323, 713/340
• US Class Current: 713/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality

Abstract

A power management system for providing a unified power management of at least one electronic system in a selected environment is provided, wherein the at least one electronic system includes a plurality of electronic components. The power management system includes a first controller module operating at the at least one electronic system in the selected environment to generate a first power control of the each electronic component based at least on a system power budget for the at least one electronic system; a second controller module operating at each of the electronic components to generate a second power control of the each electronic component based at least on a component power budget for the each electronic component; and a third controller module operating at each of the electronic components to modify a power-performance state of the each electronic component based on a target resource utilization level, wherein the target resource utilization level is based at least on the first and second power controls.

Claims

1. A power management system for providing a unified power management of at least one electronic system in a selected environment, the at least one electronic system includes a plurality of electronic components comprising:

a first controller module operating at the at least one electronic system in the selected environment to generate a first power control of the each electronic component based at least on a system power budget for the at least one electronic system;

a second controller module operating at each of the electronic components to generate a second power control of the each electronic component based at least on a component power budget for the each electronic component;

a third controller module operating at each of the electronic components to modify a power-performance state of the each electronic component based on a target resource utilization level, wherein the target resource utilization level is based at least on the first and second power controls; and

one or more interfaces operating to provide information exchange and coordination of control across at least the first, second, and third controller modules,

wherein some of the electronic components in the at least one electronic system are enclosed in a subsystem of the at least one electronic system, and the power management system further comprises;

a fourth controller module operating at the subsystem to provide a third power control of each of the electronic components in the subsystem based at least on a subsystem power budget for the subsystem.

2. The power management system of claim 1, wherein:

the at least one electronic system includes a rack enclosure having a plurality of servers as the plurality of electronic components therein; and

the one or more interfaces are based on one of inadequate information about each of the plurality of servers and proxies of actual measured information about the each server.

3. The power management system of claim 1, wherein the second power control is the target resource utilization level, and the second power control is generated based at least on a higher one of the component power budget and the system power budget.

4. The power management system of claim 1, wherein the third power control is generated based at least on a lower one of the subsystem power budget and the system power budget.

5. The power management system of claim 4, wherein the target resource utilization level of each of the electronic components in the subsystem is based on whichever one of the second power control, as from the second controller module for the each subsystem electronic component, and the third power control that provides a higher resource utilization level for the each subsystem electronic component.

6. The power management system of claim 5, wherein the target resource utilization level of each of the electronic components external to subsystem is the second power control from the second controller module for the each electronic component external to the subsystem.

7. The power management system of claim 1, further comprising:

a fifth controller module operating to adjust a placement of workloads on the plurality of electronic components in the electronic system to optimize a power consumption of the electronic system, wherein the first power control, the second power control, and the target resource utilization level are further based on the workload adjustment by the fifth controller module.

8. The power management system of claim 7, wherein at least some of the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth controller modules operate at different time constants.

9. A method for providing a unified power management of at least one electronic system in a selected environment, the at least one electronic system includes a plurality of electronic components, the method comprises:

receiving a predetermined system power budget for the at least one electronic system;

receiving a predetermined local power budget for each of the plurality of electronic components;

detecting a power consumption of each of the plurality of electronic components running one or more workloads therein;

aggregating the detected power consumptions of the plurality of electronic components into a total system power consumption of the electronic system;

determining a first power budget for each of the plurality of electronic components to ensure that the total system power consumption is substantially equal to or less than the predetermined system power budget;

determining a first target utilization for each of the plurality of electronic components, based at least on the first power budget determined for the each electronic component, to ensure that the power consumption of the each electronic component is substantially equal to or less than the predetermined local power budget for the each electronic component; and

optimizing a resource utilization of each of the plurality of electronic components based at least on the first target utilization for the each electronic component,

wherein some of the electronic components in the at least one electronic system are enclosed in a subsystem of the at least one electronic system, the method further comprises;

receiving a predetermined subsystem power budget for the subsystem;

aggregating the detected power consumptions of the subsystem electronic components into a detected subsystem power consumption of the subsystem; and

determining a second target utilization for each of the subsystem electronic components to ensure that the detected subsystem power consumption is substantially equal to or less than the subsystem power budget.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein determining the first target utilization for each of the plurality of electronic components comprises:

comparing the first power budget of the each electronic component with the predetermined local power budget for at least one of the plurality of electronic components to select the lower power budget of the two; and

determining the first target utilization for the at least one electronic component based on a difference between the selected lower power budget and the detected power consumption of the each electronic component.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein determining the first power budget for each of the plurality of electronic components comprises:

polling an average power consumption of the electronic system from the detected total system power consumption;

updating the first power budget for each of the plurality of electronic components based on the polled average power consumption; and

providing the updated first power budget for the determining of the first target utilization for the each electronic component.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein determining the first target utilization for each of the plurality of electronic components comprises:

determining the first target utilization for at least one subsystem electronic component based on a difference between the local power budget for the at least one subsystem electronic component and the detected power consumption for the least one subsystem electronic component.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein determining the first target utilization for each of the plurality of electronic components comprises:

polling an average power consumption of each of the electronic components from the detected power consumption of the each electronic component; and

updating the first target utilization for each of the electronic components based on the polled average power consumption.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

assigning the one or more workloads to the plurality of electronic components in accordance with a power optimization of the selected environment based on virtual machine (VM) consolidation.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein optimizing the resource utilization of each of the plurality of electronic components comprises:

Comparing the first and second target utilizations to obtain and determine a higher target utilization of the two;

first optimizing the resource utilization of each of the subsystem electronic components in the subsystem based on the higher target utilization.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein optimizing the resource utilization of each of the plurality of electronic components further comprises:

second optimizing the resource utilization of the remaining electronic components external to the subsystem by using the first target utilization as the resource utilization of the each remaining electronic component.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

determining a maximum target utilization from the updated first and second target utilizations.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium on which is encoded programming code for providing a unified power management of at least one electronic system in a selected environment, the at least one electronic system includes a plurality of electronic components, the encoded programming code is executable by a computer to:

receive a predetermined system power budget for the at least one electronic system;

received a predetermined local power budget for each of the plurality of electronic components;

detect a power consumption of each of the plurality of electronic components running one or more workloads therein;

aggregate the detected power consumptions of the plurality of electronic components into a total system power consumption of the electronic system;

determine a first power budget for each of the plurality of electronic components to ensure that the total system power consumption is substantially equal to or less than the predetermined system power budget;

determine a first target utilization for each of the plurality of electronic components, based at least on the first power budget determined for the each electronic component, to ensure that the power consumption of the each electronic component is substantially equal to or less than the predetermined local power budget for the each electronic component; and

optimize a resource utilization of each of the plurality of electronic components based at least on the first target utilization for the each electronic component,

wherein some of the electronic components in the at least one electronic system are enclosed in a subsystem of the at least one electronic system, the encoded programming code is further executable by a computer to;

receive a predetermined subsystem power budget for the subsystem;

aggregate the detected power consumptions of the subsystem electronic components into a detected subsystem power consumption of the subsystem; and

determine a second target utilization for each of the subsystem electronic components to ensure that the detected subsystem power consumption is substantially equal to or less than the subsystem power budget.