Citrix: PowerSmart Utility for XenApp with HP Integrated Lights-Out

As companies of all sizes have become increasingly dependent on applications to run their businesses, the costs involved in running a data center continue to grow rapidly.

IT departments are being challenged to maintain - and even increase - the capacities of their IT infrastructures while reducing energy consumption and total carbon footprints.

The cost of powering and cooling a data center is high, constituting a significant - if not the most significant - portion of total IT infrastructure costs.

Indeed, more and more studies are indicating that server hardware is no longer the leading data center expense.

Simplifying the application delivery and management infrastructure can help an IT department operate efficiently within a tightly- controlled budget while still meeting increasing demands from users for wider, faster access with more functionality.

The powerful, mutually- supportive combination of Citrix Application Delivery solutions and an HP
Adaptive Infrastructure helps integrate and synchronize IT with business processes, while sustaining the rapid deployment of resources.

This is a balanced infrastructure that helps overcome application delivery challenges by virtualizing data center servers, consolidating application workloads more efficiently and optimizing application traffic over the network.

Utilizing the new PowerSmart tool can further improve a Citrix Presentation Server environment by enabling more intelligent server provisioning and load management based on a specific knowledge of how applications are being used.

By powering down unused Presentation Servers during off-peak hours, you can support environmentally-friendly (green) computing initiatives, while, at the same time, significantly reducing energy consumption.

This Citrix white paper looks at:
- Value of the HP and Citrix partnership
- HP Server Based Computing
- PowerSmart architecture
- Configuring PowerSmart
- PowerSmart with HP iLO 2