power saving

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    Energy saving options in UI

    Since servers run 24/7 it would be great if proxmox had some power saving options in the UI, so we can save some energy and therefore money and environment. Think of setting cpu governor to powersave, or disabling unused hardware capabilities, installing better drivers
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    Distributed Power Management (DPM)-style functionality in Proxmox VE?

    Hello everyone, I’m exploring ways to reduce power consumption in my Proxmox cluster, and I wanted to ask if there is already a feature (or recommended approach) similar to VMware’s Distributed Power Management (DPM). Use case: I run a Proxmox cluster with 6 nodes. Most of the time, the...
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    Power savings + nvidia + rabbit hole.

    Hi all. I need help, I have gone into a rabbit hole... Let me try to put into words the issue. When I reboot my proxmox host (13900 + z790 + 4060ti + doesn't matter) and manually spin down the spinning rust (9 of them) and let proxmox settle, my watt meter is around 32W give or take. Great...
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    Idle power usage on bare metal higher with fresh Proxmox VE 8 install than Windows 11

    I installed proxmox on an Asrock Z790M-ITX wifi motherboard (mini-itx) with a i5-13500, 32gb of ram, 2 nvme SSDs, and a 3090. Idle power is running a fresh proxmox install with no guests at all at approximately 100W. The exact same hardware gets me 60W running windows 11 (with a running ollama...
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    [SOLVED] How to reduce power consumption?

    I use a computer with 2 Xeon Gold 6140 CPUs to install proxmox. When the machine is idle, I check the frequency and it is running at the base frequency (2.3 Ghz) for all cores. The driver being used is intel_pstate. Governor mode is "performance". - When I switch the governor to "powersave"...
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    ¿Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? PROXMOX MSG

    Hello very good afternoon community A day ago my DELL T40 server with proxmox 7.3-3 started showing this message on screen and syslog: Mar 12 03:58:59 MXBLCH kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 3c on CPU 0. Mar 12 03:58:59 MXBLCH kernel: Do you have a strange power saving mode...