Patent ID: 8032776

Claim:
A blade center chassis apparatus comprising: a plurality of blade servers populating a plurality of chassis slots; a management module; a power supply common to said plurality of chassis slots for powering said plurality of blade servers, wherein said power supply further comprises a plurality of power modules; and circuitry built into said management module operable for: reading a total power capacity of said blade center chassis by querying each of said plurality of power modules installed in said blade center chassis; calculating a maximum power load dissipated by said plurality of blade servers by querying a power consumption value of each of said plurality of blade servers; allocating an individual amount of power to each of said plurality of blade servers, wherein a total amount of individual power allocated remains less than said total power capacity of said blade center chassis; and brokering said total power capacity in said blade center chassis by changing said individual amount of power allocated to each of said plurality of blade servers.