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2. Agenda
– Current Data Center Management Approach
– Data Center Management Trends
– Emergence of Data Center Infrastructure
Management (DCIM) Tools
– Case Study & ROI Methodology
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3. Energy (Power & Cooling) is the Fastest
Growing Expense in the Data Center
Source: IDC, Worldwide Server Energy Expense 2009–2013 Forecast (12/09) 3
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4. PUE Total Facility Power
IT Equipment Power
– PUE (and variations)
A good start
Becoming the de facto
standard(s) for measuring
data center efficiency
Not the end-all-be-all
Fluctuations can be a good thing, reducing total
energy consumption may cause your PUE to
increase or decrease
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5. Lowering PUE – Incomplete Picture
– Must understand the affect of
Infrastructure Load and its Efficiency
IT Load and its Efficiency
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6. Without insight into utilization and IT power
consumption, energy use and capacity are
impossible to manage efficiently
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7. Trends: DCIM Solutions
– DCIM… the new ‘buzzword’
– The premise… Don't just understand
infrastructure or IT, understand how they
intersect
– Solutions are new but are becoming more
mature
– Bridge the gap between IT, Facilities, and the
needs of the business
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8. What is DCIM?
– Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is the integration
of (IT) and facilities management disciplines to centralize monitoring,
management and intelligent capacity planning of a data center’s
critical systems and increase availability.
– Features
Baseline, plan and intelligently manage capacity-- space, power, cooling
Drive energy efficiency initiatives
Use virtualization effectively
Optimize critical infrastructure, improve uptime
Reduce costs through effective utilization of infrastructure
Streamline data center operations, implement best practices
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10. Legacy Data Center Management
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11. Current DCIM
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14. Data Center: Before
Data center before consolidation, tech refresh, and elimination of stranded assets.
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15. Retire, Refresh, Consolidate
– Determine if an asset is nonproductive,
under-productive, or only productive on
demand
– Virtualize what makes sense
– Turning Off = Immediate bottom-line
savings
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16. Data Center: After
Data center after consolidation, tech refresh, and elimination of stranded assets.
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17. Consolidation Results
Before After Difference
Asset Count 245 139 106
Avg. Utilization 16% 38% 22%
DC Power (kW) 417.49 347.68 69.81
$148,309/yr. in Power & Cooling Saved 17
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18. ROI savings calculations
– Retiring a server = 300 watts at $.11/kWh
– Use PUE to estimate cooling savings
– Network cost savings = $50/port
– If every server uses 1 man hour per month in
support, then removing 100 servers is worth
10,000 man hours (5 man years)
– OS and application costs between $3-5K/yr
19. Estimated Annual ROI
Consolidation or Retirement of 106 Servers
Power & Cooling $148,000
Network $50,000
Storage $150,000
Labor $385,000
Licenses $318,000
Total Savings $1,051,000
Savings per Server $9,915
20. EnergyCenter
Savings Assessment Asset Placement Assistance
Top Power Consumers Utilization vs. Power
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21. EnergyCenter
Branch Circuit Monitors Underutilized Servers
Rack Power Rack Power Drill Down
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22. 2011 Uptime Institute Award – “Outstanding IT Product in a User Deployment”
“The only Data Center Energy Management solution that
provides detailed understanding of power consumption within
hours of beginning deployment.”
-- Andy Lawrence – The 451 Group
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