Patent ID: 7548971

Claim:
A method for managing the performance of a bladed computer system, the method comprising: identifying, using a management blade, one or more individual blades in a chassis; automatically determining, using the management blade, an optimal performance configuration for each of the individual blades, wherein the automatically determining comprises basing the determination on currently available thermal and power envelopes; providing information about the determined optimal performance configuration for each of the individual blades to a service manager; processing the information about the determined optimal performance configuration within the service manager; setting an individual operating frequency for at least one of the individual blades using the information processed within the service manager, wherein the individual operating frequency for the at least one individual blade may be different than an individual operating frequency for another one of the individual blades; and allowing for the setting of the individual operating frequency for the at least one of the individual blades to be disabled without disabling the at least one individual blade; wherein the allowing step comprises providing a flag at the management blade that may enable and disable setting of the individual operating frequency for at least one of the individual blades.