Patent ID: 9625967
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for use in managing power usage in data center components, the method comprising: providing a control center to manage power state information for multiple data center components, wherein the power state information includes a metric indicating when power state information was last adjusted; initiating, via the control center, component discovery, wherein component discovery includes identifying data center components capable of operating in a reduced power state; registering, via the control center, data center components identified as capable of operating in a reduced power state; acquiring, at the control center, a request to change a device operating condition for one or more data center components, wherein the request includes, for each of the one or more data center components, information associated with the power consumption of the data center component and a device registration status, the status including register or deregister; generating data center component instructions indicative of the power state information and registration status; communicating the instructions to the registered data center components; receiving the instructions at the registered data center components; and deregistering the data center component if the instruction includes a deregister status, else adjusting power usage at the registered data center components based on the received instructions.