Intel® ESAA Solution Guide: Microsoft System Center Essentials* 2008 R2 with Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager - Intel® Server Board S5500WB

Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager is a smart way to optimize and manage power and cooling resources in the data center. This data center power management technology extends instrumentation to the platform level and can be used to make the most of every watt consumed in the data center. Node Manager technology delivers two core capabilities that provide key information and control to enable the data center to be run in a more efficient manner — it reports system-level power consumption, and it utilizes power-capping policies defined by IT management to limit total system power consumption. The Microsoft System Center Essentials* 2010 Console allows Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager policies to be created, managed and exported to other nodes. Available for supported Intel® Server Platforms.

The Intel® Server Board S5500WB offers top performance for dense computing environments. When total cost of ownership is paramount, the Intel® Server Board S5500WB offers a design optimized for efficiency, targeting Internet portal data centers, cloud computing, and high performance computing (HPC) applications. Featuring Intel’s next generation of Intel® Xeon® processor, the 5600 series, and policy-based power management via Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager, the Intel Server Board S5500WB incorporates state of the art remote management, power and cooling optimizations to meet demanding data center requirements.