Using Elastic Computing with non-Web related scopes

[Coalescence]

Hi all,

Firstly, hello! I'm very interested to see this fork, will be doing
some testing when I get some time.

Secondly, does anyone here use EC to control things like mail services
etc?

At $WORK (an ISP) we have a large number of mail servers that only are
under full usage for a short period of the day, most of the time they
never hit full utilization and at night aren't particularly laden at
all. What I'd like to do is to turn off boxes at night that aren't
needed, and bring them online with WOL packets when they are.

Does anyone here have any use cases or experience?

Thanks!
Joel

[Sam Johnston]

Joel,

ECP can certainly be used for non-web workloads, however it sounds like the technology you're looking for is Cassatt (since acquired by CA):

Cassatt's Active Power Management enables IT administrators to set policies, depending on workload, for which servers and applications are crucial at what times. It then turns off servers when they're idle and powers them back up when they're needed again.

Sam 

[Coalescence]

On Feb 15, 2:22 am, Sam Johnston <s...@samj.net> wrote:
> Joel,
>
> ECP can certainly be used for non-web workloads, however it sounds like the
> technology you're looking for is

> Cassatt<http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gc...>
> (since
> acquired by CA):

Cheers for the link, seems down for me though..

t.b.h. I think I can achieve most of this anyway with a few scripts..
as most of the monitoring and graphing setup is esoteric, plus I can
model services based upon current usage charts etc.

Good to know that it's possible, anyone else use E.C. in this way?