Power savings using dynamic storage cluster membership

A system for managing storage cluster membership, the system comprising:

• a storage component configured to store a power management policy for determining membership in a storage cluster, the storage cluster comprising a plurality of storage servers and a plurality of storage devices, wherein the plurality of storage servers manage access to the plurality of storage devices and individual storage servers of the plurality of storage servers can operate in an active mode and an inactive mode;
• a monitoring component configured to monitor the storage cluster based on the power management policy;
• a target selection component configured to select a first storage server to remove from the network based on the monitoring;
• a re-location component configured to re-locate resources associated with the first storage server to a second server in the plurality of storage servers;
• and
• a device control component configured to transition the first storage server to the inactive mode.

A system for managing storage cluster membership, the system comprising:

• a storage cluster comprising:
• a plurality of storage devices;
• and
• a plurality of storage servers capable of operating in an active mode and an inactive mode,
• wherein the plurality of storage servers manage access to the plurality of storage devices;
• and
• a management server configured to:
• access a power management policy for determining membership in a storage cluster;
• monitor the storage cluster based on the power management policy;
• and
• dynamically modify storage server membership in the storage cluster based on the monitoring.