With power prices getting crazy this last year, i made a big change back in march for my home network / lab. I used to have a Dell poweredge server running ESXi. Even on 1 PSU that thing was a power hog for home use and was getting costly. I changed to a Dell Optiplex mini PC with a high end i7. Running 32GB, and 6 SSD's in RAID, using the Perc card from the Poweredge. HUGE saving on power. Literally £40 a month saving. I also moved to Proxmox at the same time and have been liking the change so far.
@dj_paultuk7052 I would love for you to write up something on the VHT forums on your experience here under the home labs section as a new topic and noting some of your observations: www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/ ...thank you again!
My downfall is I get offered hardware for free. I now have so many machines that most just sit doing nothing. I'm hoping to change that now I have my own subnet and dhcp server.
Loading i915 driver for integrated Intel GPU, then sending a special echo command to tty0 that turns off the screen will help put the integrated GPU into a deeper sleep mode on some systems. The echo command is: ‘’ echo -e “\033[9;1]” > /dev/tty0 ‘’ I think I found it on askubuntu - the question titled, Ubuntu 20.04 server: turn off screen until I press a key
Thank you! I wonder if this is the same for vSphere managed esxi?.. Answering my own question - it's in the host -> configure -> Hardware Overview -> Edit Power Policy. Mine was set to balanced too.
Funny that you use a water meter in the illustration 😂.
As usual you have good topics in your videos. Thanks a lot!
haha yes, i only realized what it was when I uploaded the video 🤣
With power prices getting crazy this last year, i made a big change back in march for my home network / lab. I used to have a Dell poweredge server running ESXi. Even on 1 PSU that thing was a power hog for home use and was getting costly. I changed to a Dell Optiplex mini PC with a high end i7. Running 32GB, and 6 SSD's in RAID, using the Perc card from the Poweredge. HUGE saving on power. Literally £40 a month saving. I also moved to Proxmox at the same time and have been liking the change so far.
@dj_paultuk7052 I would love for you to write up something on the VHT forums on your experience here under the home labs section as a new topic and noting some of your observations: www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/ ...thank you again!
Another saving tip: Reduce number of HDDs used - better 3 big capacity drives than, 8 smaller ones - that's a big electricity saver.
Important topic and often neglected. Thank you.
Saving money to buy gear I don’t need? Yup, that’s me!
My downfall is I get offered hardware for free. I now have so many machines that most just sit doing nothing. I'm hoping to change that now I have my own subnet and dhcp server.
Loading i915 driver for integrated Intel GPU, then sending a special echo command to tty0 that turns off the screen will help put the integrated GPU into a deeper sleep mode on some systems. The echo command is:
‘’ echo -e “\033[9;1]” > /dev/tty0 ‘’
I think I found it on askubuntu - the question titled, Ubuntu 20.04 server: turn off screen until I press a key
and those attics get so hot in summer. my patio gets to 120 plus in summer.
Thank you! I wonder if this is the same for vSphere managed esxi?..
Answering my own question - it's in the host -> configure -> Hardware Overview -> Edit Power Policy. Mine was set to balanced too.
Great video
Thank you!
Didn't change anything on my Proxmox Server running on intel 13600K
Didn't change anything on my Proxmox Server running on intel 13600K
@rishi2504 Interesting, did you change C states as well?