Last year I wrote a little blog about power consumptions and created a little dashboard to see if we can save some power. Link: Monitor Performance while reducing power usage/ C02 Emission ? Yes we can! (debruinonline.net) In the past many best practices preached: disable power management features! Policy to High Performance. No delay is acceptable! Electricity is cheap...but the world has changed. I noticed that when I talk about saving power 90% of the time the discussion i

Last week I had the privilege to attend to VMware Explore in Barcelona! A lot of awesome sessions, meeting friends, acquaintances and getting a beer (or two…or...) During the trip one of the customers who accompanied us pointed out to me if we ever looked at power consumption and the possibility to reduce it. Personally it did cross my mind but to be honest most of the time we put everything in high performance to get the best performance possible. The world has changed, pric