Patent ID: 8209413

Claim:
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: hardware communications devices; a processor; non-transitory storage media encoded with code that, when executed by said processor, defines a workload manager to, in response to at least one notification received via said hardware communications devices of an emergency event regarding a power-delivery or cooling system of said facilities infrastructure, cause a reallocation of said computing resources to said critical and non-critical software workloads by communicating emergency power settings to said servers via said hardware communication devices and a first network so as to reduce overall power consumption while said critical software workloads continue to execute; 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.