KEMP Technologies’ LoadMaster Products Reduce Datacenter Power Consumption

KEMP Technologies'
LoadMaster Products
Reduce Datacenter
Power Consumption
KEMP Technologies LoadMaster Application Delivery Controllers and Server Load Balancers are low energy consumers. Reducing energy use at the point of consumption, LoadMaster providers benefits to other areas by reducing load on power and cooling facilities, which in turn reduce their own energy use.
Introduction . The electrical bill for the datacenter may be included within a larger electrical bill, Power availability is one of the most and may not be available separately. important challenges facing datacenters today. Cooling requirements for servers are . Decision-makers are not given sufficient influencing power demand, while putting information during planning and pressure on datacenter operational purchasing decisions regarding the procedures. Most of today's IT operations energy cost consequences. are not properly built to deal with energy-overloaded IT infrastructure. Energy KEMP's LoadMaster products improvements can be made from both an reduce datacenter power equipment-planning perspective, and with consumption. sound operational practices in place for physical infrastructure such as network The LoadMaster 1500 is an ultra-low power devices, power, cooling, monitoring, etc. consumption device, drawing 0.2 AMPs at full load. This number is about 5-10 times IT departments that proactively identify less than other similar products. There are a devices that waste energy; enable power number of benefits to being an ultra-low saving features and power down power consuming device, including underutilized servers, can receive excellent significant decrease in the use and expense benefits from energy reduction. With energy associated with energy, and much lower saving practices is place, a positive impact cooling requirements, further driving down can be made on the environment, on energy energy costs and associated waste. consumption, and ultimately upon a company's bottom line.
LoadMaster ultra-low energy consumption benefits managed hosting providers
Energy costs and consumption Due to the LoadMaster's very low cost of acquisition, the ratio of "real servers" to In the past, datacenter power usage had not LoadMaster devices can be as low as two been considered critical design criteria. In servers to one LoadMaster in a single fact, many datacenter managers are configuration, and two LoadMasters to two unaware of their monthly energy bills. Some servers for redundant (high-availability) of the reasons for this include: configurations. This means that in a densely . Electrical bills are typically sent long populated datacenter, the number of after the charges are incurred. With no LoadMaster appliances can be nearly as clear link between decisions such as the high as the number of actual real servers installation of new datacenter equipment being load balanced. In this case, the ultra-and the increased cost of the electricity. low power consumption and very low cooling requirements of the LM1500 can have a . Billed electrical costs are often not significant impact on the total energy use within the responsibility or budget of the and costs for managed hosting provider datacenter operating group. datacenters.
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Promoting environmental safety Summary All LoadMaster products adhere to RoHS Low energy consumption network devices compliance. RoHS is an EU directive which such as the LoadMaster enable SMBs to restricts the use of hazardous materials in lower their energy bills and reduce cooling the manufacture of various types of requirements. Robust optimization features electronic and electrical equipment. such as resource-based load balancing and SSL acceleration, KEMP enables our Conserving IT resources - customers to deliver optimum application resource-based load balancing performance using fewer servers. Fewer servers mean less energy being used, and and SSL Acceleration lower operating costs, while promoting a Resource-based (Adaptive) load balancing greener environment. is built into every LoadMaster. This enables customers to consolidate the number of physical servers needed to provide optimum performance levels. In addition, since a single LoadMaster appliance can support up to 256 virtual services (websit... [download for more]