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PC Power Management

Greg Regan Principal Computing Officer Desktop Applications Team. PC Power Management. A few statistics about Plymouth. 5 th largest university in the UK Recently ranked 1 st in the UK of 119 international universities when dealing with green issues

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PC Power Management

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  1. Greg Regan Principal Computing Officer Desktop Applications Team PC Power Management

  2. A few statistics about Plymouth 5th largest university in the UK Recently ranked 1st in the UK of 119 international universities when dealing with green issues Multiple campus’ across Somerset, Devon & Cornwall ~ 30,000 FTE students ~ 3,500 staff 1,800 student PCs (approx 60 dual boot to Linux) 3,000 staff PCs 500 laptops 300 Macs Condor Grid Computing pool of 1,000 student Windows PCs More than 200 Windows Servers + few Linux, Solaris & Unix Predominantly a Microsoft site

  3. Current/recent initiatives include:

  4. Today I will show how the University of Plymouth will: Reduce its PlymDesk 5 carbon footprint; and Reduce its PlymDesk 5 power bills by more than £276k over the next 3 years

  5. A brief history of PlymDesk

  6. PlymDesk 5 technologies

  7. The Plymouth solution All PCs are AMT provisioned All PCs are a member of an Active Directory security group Each of the above security groups has a different Windows power policy defined by a Group Policy preference moving the PC into standby after a period of inactivity Intel SMS add-on wakes up or turns on PCs to perform OS updates or application deployments The defined power policy returns the PC to a standby state

  8. Power Management Components

  9. You may ask why AMT? WoL technology didn’t work on our network Extant enterprise products were either not robust or too expensive The timing of the renewal of our leased fleet coincided with the maturity of Enterprise AMT

  10. Some of the lows Dealing with new technologies – OEM was learning on the fly causing issues Blending the technologies into UoP infrastructure Issues with Intel SMS add-on Lack of real accessible information BIOS and BIOS upgrade issues Changing user & support staff misconceptions, i.e. vPro power managed PCs UoP under-resourcing the project

  11. A few highs UoP senior management buy-in – all PCs ‘have’ to be power-managed, opt-out may only be achieved by completing a registration form Working with new technologies Working in partnership with Intel Achieving solutions and successes Our Apple Mac fleet wherever possible emulates the behaviour of the PCs

  12. Estimated ROI

  13. The future Prove that we are making real savings – aiming to look at this later this year, the findings will be published Microsoft have embraced the AMT technology  Upgrading from SMS 2003 & SCS to SCCM 2007 SP1 – effectively unifying SMS & AMT

  14. For more information gregory.regan@plymouth.ac.uk

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