Patent ID: 8250382
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: G06F,H05K,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of managing power consumed by a plurality of blade servers within a processing system, comprising: identifying at least one of the plurality of blade servers that is not critical to maintain in a working state; and putting a processor of the at least one non-critical blade server in a sleep state in response to determining that the processing system has reached a thermal or power threshold, wherein the step of putting the processor of at least one non-critical blade server in a sleep state includes sending an IPMI message from a satellite management controller to command a BMC to put the processor of the at least one non-critical blade server in a sleep state and sending an IPMI message from the BMC to command the operating system to put the processor of the at least one non-critical blade server in a sleep state.