Green IT in Private Cloud using System Center

Producing electricity would damage the environment, there are new technologies that helping to reduce damage and make it more efficient use but still there are some negative affect from to environment when you produce electricity. When we are able to save electricity, we will help the environment and also reduce operation and maintenance cost. Data centers are one the main source of power consumption, since servers themselves will consume power and most of the time, they should run 24/7.

Using System Center, products you could build a private cloud with Green IT plan. This plan will help you to reduce power consumption without affect the operation of your organization. The basic idea is that your servers and clients will rest when no one using them and they work only when they need to do a task. You could apply power management policy to your physical and virtual servers and clients using System Center products in your private cloud solution. The process of doing this is pretty easy and you need to do a little bit of planning and put your plan to action and save electricity and your environment too. Here are some resources to get started with Green IT plan using System Center products:

Introduction to Power Management in Configuration Manager
Configuring Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization in VMM