Optimize Your Data Center Gary Hill VP, Business Development DVL Group, Inc.
Optimize Your Data Center
Gary Hill
VP, Business Development
DVL Group, Inc.
Data Center Age Profile
Gartner Group Survey
Legacy Data Centers Challenges
Under Powered - Room or Racks
Inadequate Air Delivery
Inadequate Monitoring Capabilities
Inefficient Cooling
Cabling Challenges
Budget
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Choices in Handling Change
4
Build Cloud Colocation
The Best Choice May Be To Extend the Life of Your Existing Data Center
Extend the Life of the Data Center
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FACT: Pressures on cost will increase
Step 1: Unlock hidden or stranded capacity
Assessments & Audits
Under-utilized servers
Virtualization
Decommission servers
Redeploy power & cooling
Step 2: Improve Measuring & Monitoring
Define, Measure, Analyze, Control
Step 3: Densify Your Data Center
Visualize the data center floor
Avocent Data Center Planner
– Inventory Mapping and Planning Tool for Physical Devices in Data Center
– Visualize infrastructure down to the rack
– Model current and future rack capacities
– Track equipment throughout its lifecycle
– Perform “what if scenarios”
Reduce time to provision equipment
Avocent Data Center Planner
– Less time required to plan equipment installs
– Optimize installation based on available space, power & air
Track Rack Capacity - Power, Cooling, Space
Avocent Data Center Planner
– Effectively Manage The Data Center as a System
Extending The Life of Your Data Center
Applications
• Capacity: 20kW • Racks: 3-6 • Key Applications: Small data centers; remote sites
Needs Addressed
• Integrated design • Standardization • Low 1st cost & operating cost • Availability • Speed of deployment
Intelligent, integrated infrastructure in a self contained line-up
Single line of racks
Complete and integrated data center infrastructure
3-6 racks (up to 20kW)
Integrated Cooling
Airflow Management
Fire Suppression
UPS
Power Distribution
Monitoring
SmartRowTM – Airflow Management
SmartRowTM Benefits
• Monitors temperature and controls precision cooling operating levels accordingly
• Monitors equipment for quicker response & resolution Control
• Can be deployed in just weeks: simple in design & deployment
• Local data center experts and service teams for configuration, installation, maintenance, repair
Interoperable
• Room neutral: No effect on existing space
• Reduce cost of installation: no need to undertake expensive upgrades to fire suppression, cooling capacity or flooring
Economical
• Significant energy savings from enclosed precision cooling system, variable capacity and intelligent controls
• Optimizes space efficiency through integrated system Efficient
SmartRowTM Design & Cost Example
Conventional Design 18 kW, 288 sq ft 1 rows, 6 racks Ceiling mounted ducted cooling (6) 5 kVA UPS Room renovation, fire suppression
Situation: deploy 18 kW of IT to a non-IT ready room
SmartRow 18 kW, 288 sq ft 1 row, 6 racks 1 Liebert Challenger 6 Liebert GXT 5 kVA Room neutral
Conventional SmartRow Cost Savings % Savings
Room Costs contractor, installation, engineering services
$60,000 $43,000 $17,000 28%
Infrastructure Equipment UPS, distribution, cooling, racks, fire suppression
$105,000 $109,000 -$4,000 -3%
Total CapEx $165,000 $152,000 $13,000 8%
Annual Energy Consumption power & cooling equipment energy use
$8,800 $6,400 $2,400 27%
5 Year OpEx $44,000 $32,000 $12,000 27%
5 Year TCO $209,000 $184,000 $25,000 12%
SmartRowTM Cost Comparison
Room Savings
Equipment Savings
Energy Savings
Room neutral, fewer services to retrofit room into an IT space
Pre-engineered, integrated precision cooling, ducting, distribution and fire suppression
Airflow management, variable capacity, intelligent controls
Applications
• Capacity: Most cost effective up to 400kW
• Floor: Raised, non-raised • Applications: Small and medium
data centers; high-density zones
Needs Addressed
• Efficiency: OPEX & CAPEX • Flexibility • Availability • Standardization • Interoperability
Intelligent, integrated infrastructure using row-based building blocks
Leveraging Avocent firmware expertise
Mission: Continue to Connect to Everything Regardless of Vendor
Digital Rack Interface Pod • Provides Digital KVM access
• Powered directly from server
• Backup power provided by
Universal Management Gateway
• Based on Avocent ASIC
technology
Universal Management Gateway
Trellis Universal Management Gateway
• Provides KVM and Serial Access
• Integrated or stand-alone
• Connects directly to Service Processors
• Supports Environmental Sensors
• Collects data from connected devices
and feeds data to the Trellis software
Trellis Platform 1.0 Facilities Capabilities
Site Management
• Alarm/event management and notifications
• Device operating status and data trends
• Environment and site conditions
Energy Management
• Data center efficiency metrics including PUE
• Energy consumption (kW/hours) and costs
• Sub-system efficiency losses
Power Systems Management
• Dependencies of the complete power system
• Power system resource utilization and capacity
• Active power path status
Cooling Systems Management
• Dependencies of the complete cooling system
• Cooling system resource utilization and capacity
• Cooling target zone management
Capabilities Will Be Bundled Into Value-Driven Offerings
EMERSON NETWORK POWER’S DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION OFFERINGS NOTIONAL OFFERINGS TO BE OFFERED
• Minimize energy
• Identify energy
inefficiencies
• Understand IT
services TCO
• Optimize resource
utilization
• Improve process
efficiency
• Centralize IT
equipment access
• Understand data
center asset
inventory
• Plan future IT
services
• Optimize IT
resource
deployment
• Model deployment
scenarios
• Reduce vendors
• Control / log IT
systems access
• Control physical
access to data
center
• Meet
government /
industry energy
efficiency
standards
• Predict outage risks
• Monitor facilities / IT
dependencies
• Automate impact
analyses
• Reduce MTTR
• Eliminate risk with
root cause
analyses
• Identify redundancy
gaps
Efficiency &
Cost Availability Capacity
Planning &
Agility Compliance
Customer Benefits
Simplify complex eco-system management
SmartAisle at the DVL Efficiency Lab
115 Sinclair Road Bristol, PA 19007
SmartAisle at Microsoft Technology Center
45 Liberty Blvd. Malvern, PA 19355
Key Takeaways
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1. Pressures on data centers will continue to accelerate.
2. Address your data center as a System.
3. Implement DCIM to make informed decisions
4. Improve efficiency across the entire operation
5. Evaluate SmartSolutions™
Questions ??
115 Sinclair Road
Bristol, PA 19007
www.dvlnet.com
(215) 785-5950