In the upcoming and eagerly awaited release of vSphere 4.0 (aka Virtual Infrastructure) VMware will be dropping the "experimental" state of its Distributed Power Management Technology.
It’s not yet clear how much DPM will impact the data center operations today, but CPU power management certainly is a feature that is influencing the roadmaps of several vendors:
- Intel will release a Dynamic Power Node Manager with its upcoming Nehalem CPU
- Microsoft will release Core Parking and CPU power consumption controls as part of Windows Server 2008 R2 which Hyper-V 2.0 will leverage
Citrix may be playing catch-up as well.
A recent post on the corporate blogs reveals that the company has worked on an unofficial project called PowerSmart for XenApp (at that time Presentation Server).
The project was halted and it’s now morphing into something official, maybe this will be included in the next release of XenServer or maybe essentials?