{"id":630,"date":"2012-01-01T13:43:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T13:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2012-01-01T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T13:45:21","slug":"your-home-lab-costs-too-much-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Your home lab costs too much electricity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just found out my electricity bill is going up by 19% and its already stupidly high as it is. So I decided to save my own pocket to go green in what way I can. So #1 of course I\u2019ve got my home vSphere cluster properly configured to keep off one of my servers switched off most of the time using DPM. However I want to save more energy so I had an idea about my desktop PC. Like most IT geeks I leave my home desktop PC switched on 24\/7\u00a0 for convenience, to have access whatever the reason I like to have it on.\u00a0 I started to \u00a0think is there a way I can control my desktop PC like DPM and came up with this idea: I would schedule a task to place my PC into sleep mode at 2am and then schedule a Wake Up Lan task to power it on in its previous state at 7am thus saving me 5 hours of electricity. So this is how I did it:<\/p>\n

Step1 I used the windows scheduler to schedule this command at 2am:<\/p>\n

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This places my PC in a sleep state.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Step 2. I run the DD-WRT firmware on my home router (DD-WRT is configurable on tons of routers) and one of the things it can do is schedule through a cron job a wake up lan call (WOL) . Below is the command I used to wake up using my PC from its MAC address at 7:03am:<\/p>\n

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Job done..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just found out my electricity bill is going up by 19% and its already stupidly high as it is. So I decided to save my own pocket to go green in what way I can. So #1 of course I\u2019ve got my home vSphere cluster properly configured to keep off one of my servers switched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t