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Power management in managed network having hardware based and virtual resources

  • US 9,201,485 B2
  • Filed: 05/29/2009
  • Issued: 12/01/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving a set of media access control (MAC) addresses and a set of pseudo-MAC addresses during pre-boot operations of a plurality of machines;

    discovering, by a processor, a set of hardware-implemented machines in view of the set of MAC addresses and a set of virtual machines in view of the set of pseudo-MAC addresses;

    generating, by the processor, a power management schedule for the set of hardware-implemented machines and the set of virtual machines in view of a dependency ordering of two or more machines, each of the two or more machines being a member of one of;

    the set of hardware-implemented machines or the set of virtual machines; and

    issuing a set of power management commands in accordance with the power management schedule to adjust the power usage of the two or more machines.

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