Patent ID: 8209413
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: G06F,H05K,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a management workstation configured to manage a data center having a facilities infrastructure and servers, said servers having computing resources including processors, memories and communications devices for executing critical and non-critical software workloads, said management workstation having: an in-band network normally visible to workloads, said first network being an out-of-band network that bypasses said workloads, said management workstation communicating said emergency power settings to said servers over said out-of-band network; and a managed server executing a workload including a mission application on an operating system, said managed server having server power settings, said managed server having an integrated lights-out module connected to said out-of-band network so that said management workstation can change said server power settings by communicating them through said operating system.