Ibm systems director active energy manager121207 overview

© 2007 IBM Corporation

IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager V3.1 Overview

2 © 2007 IBM CorporationIBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager

IBM Systems Director

Energy efficiency: Data centers are at a tipping point

What is the greatest facilities problem with your primary data center? Gartner 2006

Left unchecked, the cost to power and cool servers in the future may well equal the cost of acquisition

Consume 10 to 100 times more energy per square foot than a typical office building

Large potential impact on electricity supply and distribution USA data centers used about 45 billion kWh in 2005 At current rates, power requirements could double in 5 years

None of the above

Poor location

Excessive facility cost

Insufficient raised floor

Insufficient power

Excessive heat

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%

Expense to power and cool installed base ($US )

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

$0

$20

$40

$60

$80

New server spendPower & cooling spend

71%48% 52% 57% 62% 67%

$100

$70

Data source: Creating Energy-Efficient Data Centers, U.S. Department of Energy, May 18, 2007

SOURCE: IDC, ‘Worldwide Server Power and Cooling Expense 2006-2010,’ Document #203598, Sept. 2006



Worldwide expense to power and cool installed base

Today, each dollar of new servers cost $0.52 to power and cool

This is expected to increase 37% over the next four years to $0.71

$0

$50

$100

$150

$200

$250

$300

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

Installed Base(M Units)

Spending(US$B)

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

1996

Power and cooling costs x8

Server mgmt and admin costs x4

New server spending

SOURCE: IDC, ‘Worldwide Server Power and Cooling Expense 2006-2010,’ Document #203598, Sept. 2006



Can a 10% efficiency improvement really help?

Data source: Creating Energy-Efficient Data Centers, , U.S. Department of Energy, May 18, 2007

Typical Data Center Cooling Conversion

IT Load

Power and Cooling Power and Cooling

IT Load

A 10% improvement could save 20 billion kWh

in the USA. 55%45%55% 45%

For the 25,000 square foot data center that spends $2.6 million in power annually, energy costs can be significantly reduced

Save 20 billion kWh per year by 2015 Worth $2 billion, ≈ annual electricity use in 1.8 million American homes Potentially defer need to build 2,300 MW of new generating capacity And avoid 3.4 million metric tons of carbon emissions

(like taking 675,000 cars off the road) Extend life and capacity of existing data center infrastructures



How is energy typically used in the data center?

Data center

IT Load

55% 45%

Power and Cooling

Server hardware

70% 30%

Power supply, memory, fans, planar, drives . . .

Processor

Server loads

80% 20%

Idle

Resourceusage rate

Data source: Creating Energy-Efficient Data Centers, , U.S. Department of Energy, May 18, 2007



IBM response – Project Big Green

“IBM to reallocate $1 billion a year” . . . Armonk, May 10, 2007

– To guarantee the research and development funding for IT energy efficiency technology.

– Create an 850 member worldwide IBM “Green Team” of energy efficiency specialists.

– Plan, build or prepare our facilities to be Green Data Centers based on IBM best practices and innovative technologies in power and cooling.

– Use virtualization as the technology accelerator for our Green Data Centers – to drive utilization up and our annual power cost per square foot down.

Re-affirmed IBM’s long standing commitment to environmental leadership

– IBM energy conservation efforts from 1990 – 2005 have resulted in a 40% reduction in CO2

emissions and $250 billion in energy savings. IBM is committed to an additional 12% CO2 savings by 2012.

– IBM will double the compute capacity in our Green Data Centers by 2010 without increasing power consumption or carbon footprint, thus avoiding 5 billion kilowatt hours per year.



Drivers for energy management

• Understand the exact power / cooling costs in a data center – Breakdown of costs of the components – Large margins needed to protect power / cooling allocation failures

• Manage the efficiency of the current environment– Get the most out of what is currently installed without having to make large disruptive

change

• Reduce the power / thermal costs– Save energy costs in periods of low utilization– Increase performance without increasing infrastructure (ROI in DC)

• Plan a new or retrofit an existing data center– When retrofitting or building a new data center, do it right the first time – Trending of current energy consumption on individual or groups of systems show

growth patterns in power consumption and cooling needs– Power calculators on new system configurations provides better planning information



IBM Cool Bluetm portfolioActive Energy Manager is a key component of IBM’s Cool Blue Initiative

TECHNOLOGYLAYER

Technology Components: Power Supplies: DC/AC Measure, Efficiency, iPDU CEC: Intel, AMD, Power P6/P7 (EMPATH) I/O: Networking, Storage Virtualization Packaging: BladeCenter, Rear/Side Heat Exchangers

SYSTEMS VIRTUALIZATIO N

LAYER

SOLUTIONSLAYER

System Components: Enterprise Management Integration Power Capacity Planning tools Active Energy Manager: Measure, Monitor, & Control Policy based Management:

Deployment-Power-Performance-High Availability

SERVICESLAYER

Services Components: Data Center Modeling & Planning Support for Technology Components Facilities Integration – Power/Cooling Vendors

Industry,

Government

& Standards(SPEC, Green Grid)

Participation



IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager V3.1 (AEM)

Active Energy Manager

AEM helps companies monitor, measure and control their energy usage

AEM is a unique energy management solution building block that returns true control of energy costs to the customer

AEM is an industry leading cornerstone of the IBM energy management framework

AEM is an energy management software tool that can provide clients with a single view of the actual power usage across multiple platforms in their infrastructure as opposed to the benchmarked power consumption

In tandem with chip vendors like Intel and AMD, and consortiums like Green Grid, AEM advances the IBM initiative to deliver price performance per square foot

AEM initial focus is on IT load

Supports across a large spectrum of IBM Systems



End-to-end management approach

Platform-specific

capabilities

Managed environments

3rd Party, Custom

Operating systems

Virtualization software

Hardware

And m

ore . . .

IBM Tivoli(and selected other enterprise management tools)

IBM Systems DirectorPhysical and virtual platformsServer, Storage, NetworkingFoundation Extension Groups

Deployment Health

Configuration Maintain

Virtualization Optimization

Advanced Monitoring

System x, i, z, p

System Storage

Other

Replication




IBM® Systems Director family

Systems Director for Virtualization– IBM Virtualization Manager– IBM Director z/VM® Center– IBM Usage and Accounting Manager– Integrated Virtualization Manager

for IBM System p™

Systems Director for Optimization– IBM Remote Deployment Manager– IBM Cluster Systems Management

– Active Energy Manager– IBM Capacity Manager for IBM System x™

Systems Director for Advanced Monitoring– IBM Tivoli Monitoring Systems Edition for System p– IBM OMEGAMON® z/OS® Management Console– IBM eServer™ iSeries™ Navigator

Systems Director for Replication Management– IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication– IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication

Two Site BC

– IBM Director 5.2– IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center Standard Edition



AEM builds upon IBM PowerExecutive V2.1

AEM succeeds IBM PowerExecutive V2.1 currently available from IBM for x86 systems

IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager V3.1 provides energy monitoring and management across multiple systems

– Additional support for servers and storage– Updated support for Blades and BladeCenter– Updates enable a customer to support larger environment

with great flexibility and control

IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager builds on, and extends the capabilities offered today in IBM PowerExecutive

Customers using PowerExecutive 2.0 and 2.1 will be able to upgrade to IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager



New to this release of IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager 3.1

• Exploit Energy Scale capabilities in POWER 6 servers – Power Trending

– Thermal Trending

– Effective CPU Trending

– Power Savings

– Power Capping

• Support power savings for new POWER 6 models

• Discover and monitor legacy and select non-IBM systems through the intelligent Power Distribution Unit (iPDU)

– Display trending information per load group

– Allows management of POWER 6 legacy systems

– Support low- to mid-range storage devices

• Enhancements above PowerExecutive V2 (Windows, xLinux)– Support for new x86 models: x33850, x3850 M2, x3950 M2, and BC-S 8886

– Cross-system monitoring and management support

– iPDU support

– System polling enhancements

• AEM application supported on: Windows, xLinux, pLinux

• Plans to extend support to System z



IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager V3.1 offering

Offering consists of “no charge” monitor functions and “priced” management functions

– Monitoring Functions• Power Trending• Thermal Trending• iPDU Support

– Management Functions• Power Capping• Power Savings Mode

Management functions are enabled for a 60-day evaluation

Management functions have a server size specific price structure based upon server being managed

Application available as a web download (CD with authorization key for priced functions)

Supports IBM and non-IBM platforms

Feature of IBM Systems Director



Active Energy Manager monitoring functionsOffering consists of “no charge” monitor functions

Power Trending– Displays power usage for individual systems over time (in a graph or in table format) to

understand power usage trends within and across their systems

Thermal Trending– Displays information on the inlet and exhaust temperatures for individual systems one at a time

to understand thermal characteristics of systems so that temperature adjustments can be made within the IT shop

iPDU (intelligent Power Distribution Units) – Enables support for power trending for older systems, low- and mid-range storage devices as

well as non-IBM systems. By plugging these systems into an intelligent PDU (a smart power strip) AEM can collect power information from I/O drawers within the iPDU thereby giving a more complete view of power used within a data center

Native Support – Extends power management functions such as power trending, thermal trending, and power

capping, originally available on System x, to multiple IBM platforms enabling power management functions on all IBM systems from a single console which reduces complexity



Active Energy Manager management functionsOffering consists of “priced” management functions

Power Capping– Allocates a maximum power level a system can use without

having to worry about power usage above the maximum point

– AEM will throttle the processor to use less power, which slows down the server, if the system starts to consume more than the maximum level set

– This feature can come into play if it gets too warm in the data center as setting the cap will ensure that the system will not use more than that cap value thus reducing power and thermal usage

Power Savings Mode– Enables a system to save up to 30% of normal CPU power usage

– Power savings is enabled via an on/off switch which can be scheduled during times of low utilization

– Occurs automatically based on processor utilization if the function is supported on the system

– Allows management of power usage as work activity shifts across various demands



Benefits of IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager V3.1

Reduced IT costs

More efficient planning of new data center construction and or modification

Accurate power input sizing based on physical systems

Justification of incremental hardware purchases based on available input power capacity

Better utilization of existing resources



Implementing IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager

How does it work?

Hardware, firmware, and systems management software in servers and blades can take inventory of components

– No agents are required on the endpoint servers

Active Energy Manager totals up the power draw for each server/blade and tracks that usage over time

When power is constrained, Active Energy Manager allows power to be allocated on a server by server

– Care taken that limiting power consumption does not affect performance

– Sensors and alerts can warn the user if limiting power to this server could affect performance

In the future group power policies may be developed across groups of servers and reallocated dynamically based on past history

True Data Center Energy Management



Simple exampleSet power cap to peak

Label Power

Simulated graph of actual power consumed by the server over time.Today, label power is the only option within the server

Power

(watts)

Time

Active Energy Mgr Trending (weeks, months)

Power Configurator

Power Configuration -Planning estimate -Based on typical HW power consumption

Improvement over label power

Power typically allocated to a server

Over Allocated

Power not converted into compute cycles

Proper

Power

Allocation

Wasted Power

Allocation

Allocation Model of Server

Power budget not converted into compute cycles

Power budget converted into compute cycles

Set Power Cap

Based on measured power



Simple exampleGetting more out of your data center

Using IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager Determine proper power allocation for each server or storageReallocate power to additional servers without additional Power/Cooling equipment

Server 1

Server 6

Server 5

Server 2

Server 4

Server 3

Server 7

Rack

Server A

Server B

Allocation After Active Energy Manager

+2 additional servers

2 Additional servers in same Power/Cooling envelop

Power Trending indicates over-allocated power

(red bar)

Server 1

Server 6

Server 5

Server 2

Server 4

Server 3

Server 7

Rack

Allocation Before Active Energy Manager

Upper bound on P/T for Rack Label Power

Over Allocated

Power

(watts)

Time

Power Exec Trending (weeks, months)

Measure and trend power

Server X

Single Server



AEM helps with energy management issues

The cost to power and cool servers is increasing and in the future may well equal the cost of acquisition

– Monitoring energy consumption allows better utilization of available energy resources– Power capping increases the level of energy efficiency in IT– Active Energy Manager is one of IBM’s technologies to help clients avoid billions of kilowatt

hours of new energy use

Optimize and manage data center power and cooling– Intelligence and control to manage data center server power utilization – Combination of hardware, system logic and group management tools

Take the guess work out of data center power management

Power control capability ensures data center robustness within a fixed power envelope

Actual power draw, not conservative “label/spec power” estimate



Example of an IBM Active Energy Management solution IBM Systems Director 5.2 provides an inventory of what is currently installed in a data center Information from IBM Systems Director can be used to determine current costs and

implementation of an energy management solution

1. Virtualize and implement IBM Systems Director

1. Install Active Energy Manager

1. Implement live partition mobility with P6

Increase utilization rates

Reduce number of servers, storage, network devices

Create shared infrastructure

IBM Systems Director can manage physical and virtual environments

Helps companies meter, control, even cap their power usage

“Cruise control” for power consumption of servers

Supported across a large variety of IBM Systems - servers and storage

Migrate workloads to eliminate hot spots

Move work off underutilized systems to conserve power



AEM upward integration with Tivoli to provide energy management solutions

IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting, Monitoring, and Provisioning to help align power use with workload goals

Actively moving workloads and power up/down resources

Who used what?

How much did IT cost?



IBM offerings – Aimed at all aspects of energy efficiency

Data Center Stored Cooling Solution

Optimized Airflow Assessment for Cabling

Scalable Modular Data Center

Data Center Relocation and Consolidation Data Center Facilities Design

Data Center Energy Efficiency Assessment

Accelerator for Rationalization

IBM Optimization and Integration Services: Server Consolidation

Server and Storage Power/Cooling Trends and Data Center Best Practices

Data Center Thermal Analysis and Optimization Facilities Integration

Data Center Health Audit for IT

IBM Blue Gene#1 efficient system in Green 500 list

Rear Door Heat ExchangerThermal management innovation

IBM power suppliesMeasurement built in

IBM z/Architecture™ System zTM lean and green leadership

X-ArchitectureTM

System x designed for efficiency

Power Architecture ™ Processor efficiency management for System i and System p

IBM System StorageTM

Increases utilization and energy efficient ILM

BladeCenter ® Open, Easy, Green

Virtualization on IBM Systems and IBM System Storage drives utilization

up and annual power cost down

Active Energy Manager For trending and capping

Tivoli Provisioning, ITUAM and Monitoring Actively moving workloads and power up/down resources

and aligning workloads



Active Energy Manager STG Lab Service Implementation offering

IBM jumpstart data center Active Energy Manager implementation for IBM, OEM IT and facilities equipments

Review with Facilities Managers the major pain points

Identify & assess potential of AEM for the supported systems candidates

Install IBM Systems Director on supplied server & software running on a Win 2003 or Linux environments

Install up to two supplied consoles

Configure & customize AEM for up to four of the following supported systems

– BladeCenter Management Module (MM)– PowerPC with Flexible Service Processor (FSP) or with Hardware

Management Console (HMC) – System i with HMC or FSP– System p with HMC or FSP– System x Rack Server with Baseboard Manager Controller (BMC)– Legacy Systems with Intelligent Power Distribution Unit (iPDU)– Mid Range System Storage

Informal hands-on training of the implemented solution

Complete implementation within a week





SummaryActive Energy Manager: A cornerstone of IBM’s Big Green initiative

The only energy management software tool that can provide clients with a single view of the actual power usage across multiple platforms

Increases energy efficiency by controlling power use across the data center

Controls energy consumption and improves energy efficiency which results in substantial savings and cost reductions

Provides out-of-the-box management for single IBM System and BladeCenter while being able to provide a cross-environment view of power and thermal usage within an IT shop

Cross-platform platform

– IBM Systems new and legacy

Active Energy Manager V3.1 management functions are available for a 60-day no-charge evaluation period for x86 and POWER



Additional information

ibm.com/virtualization

ibm.com/virtualization/systemsdirector

ibm.com/systems/optimizeit

ibm.com/systems/management/director/extensions/actengmrg.html

ibm.com/systems/services/labservices/ labervices_datacenter.htm





IBM Contacts:

Sales: Katherine Grondin 919-654-6223 Katherine Grondin@Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS [email protected]

Marketing: Suzanne Battenfeld 845-758-2439 Suzanne Battenfeld@Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS [email protected]

Lab Services: Gregorio Mallare 813-412-1079 Gregorio E Mallare@Tampa/IBM@IBMUS [email protected]

[email protected]

>

–



Copyright information

© Copyright IBM Corporation 2007

IBMRoute 100Somers, NY 10589U.S.A.

Produced in the United States of America11-07All Rights Reserved

IBM and the IBM logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.

Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

Use of the information herein is at the recipient's own risk. Information herein may be changed or updated without notice. IBM may also make improvements and/or changes in the products and/or the programs described herein at any time without notice.

References in this publication to IBM products or services do not imply that IBM intends to make them available in all countries in which IBM operates.

Ibm systems director active energy manager121207 overview

Documents

energy costs

department of energy

energyefficient data

cooling power

energy efficiency technology

power supply

primary data center

power requirements