摘要:
Arrangements reducing power consumption of an air conditioner and a storage device. A control method with a management server apparatus for a plurality of storage devices and an air conditioner includes calculating plural combinations of allocating the work amount to the plurality of storage devices, calculating the heating value of each storage device included in the plurality of storage devices for each of the plural combinations, calculating the quantity of heat conducted to the air conditioner, based on the heating value and positional information of the plurality of storage devices and the air conditioner, calculating the power consumption to cool the quantity of heat conducted to the air conditioner, selecting a combination included in the plural combinations based on the power consumption of the air conditioner, and issuing a move of the data stored in a first storage device to a second storage device, based on the selected combination.
摘要:
To realize a disk array device which suppresses vibrations during HDD spinning-up, there is provided a disk array apparatus, comprising: a plurality of disk drives; and a controller for controlling the plurality of disk drives, the disk array apparatus controlling power of the plurality of disk drives for each disk group including of the plurality of disk drives. The two disk drives included in the same disk group are arranged in sets on one base member. The controller controls to set start timings of the two disk drives constituting the set identical to each other.