Patent ID: 8720043

Claim:
A method of allocating resources, comprising: assessing: an available amount of one or more electrical power resources for a rack system; and an available amount of one or more cooling resources for the rack system; establishing, for a defined amount of rack space in the rack system: a budgeted amount for at least one of the one or more electrical power resources; and a budgeted amount for at least one of the one or more cooling resources, wherein the budgeted amount of the at least one electrical power resource is a portion of the assessed available amount of the one or more electrical power resources for the rack system, wherein the budgeted amount of the at least one cooling resource is a portion of the assessed available amount of the one or more cooling resource for the rack system; deploying one or more electrical modules in a particular space in the rack system having the defined amount of rack space such that: the amount of the at least one electrical power resource used by the one or more electrical modules in the particular space is maintained within the budgeted amount of the at least one electrical power resource; and the amount of the at least one cooling resource used by the one or more electrical modules in the particular space is maintained within the budgeted amount of the at least one cooling resource.