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Data Centres: Designing for business needs
Christian BertoliniProfessional Services Manager Pacific RegionAPC by Schneider Electric
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Agenda●
What are the business needs?
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IT/Business Strategy and DC Design
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Energy and Efficiency
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Local Councils and Cloud Computing
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Case Study
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IT strategies that are paying off
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Measuring as a target enabler
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Responding to business needs
Data Centre engineering and integrations should design in line with the business requirements:
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What are the IT (and non IT) business requirements?●
What is the green IT target (energy saving, footprint saving)?
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What is the IT strategy (virtualization, high density, etc)●
What is the sustainability strategy?
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Data Centre Design: Being Strategic
Data Centre Infrastructures (power, cooling, etc) must be specifically designed and engineered.
“Executives regard IT infrastructure as a commodity. That’s a mistake. Yes, components such as servers and storage—even some support processes, like the monitoring of applications—have been commoditized. Even so, an effective
infrastructure operation creates value by making sound choices about which technologies to use and how to integrate them. A technology product
purchased from a vendor may be a commodity, but the ability to bring together hardware, software, and configure systems to create business
value is strategic.” -
McKinsey
A good and reliable system is only achievable by design.
Source: McKinsey Quarterly
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Energy Efficiency and Cost
It’s about money!
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IT power consumption
US - EPA Report to Congress
Trends in Data Center Energy Use•
Sector consumed about 61 billion KWh in 2006–
Equates to ~1.5%
total U.S. electricity
consumption and ~$4.5 billion–
Federal sector: ~6 billion kWh and ~$450million
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Projected to increase to 100 billion kWh in 2011–
Equates to ~2.5%
of total U.S. electricity
consumption and ~$7.4 billion
Source: The Green Grid
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IT power consumption
EPA National Computing Center RTP, NC
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95,322 gross square feet (8,855 m2), 46 Billion Btu/year (1,537kW/h)
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LEED®
silver certification in 2005br•
Solar roof system and street lighting
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Energy efficient lighting in facility•
Building automation system, outside air economizers, variable speed HVAC systems
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Energy audit scheduled for first week in February
Source: The Green Grid
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Green IT? Energy efficiency? We want to do more with less!
Sometimes we are victims of a growing greenwash
phenomenon. Organisations
use Green IT and PUE concepts as marketing tools.
The reality is that we want to do more with less. We want to use less energy, less resources and ultimately we want to spend less and still achieve the same results.
Once we put all the speculation aside we need to start thinking: how can we achieve our target?
Cabling Design and Sustainability
The answer is: Cultural change and intelligent design
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PUE Assessment and Distribution
How efficient is your Data Centre? How much could you save?
Source: The Green Grid
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Energy management: UPS sizing
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Power Usage EffectivenessThe PUE is defined as follows:
The PUE can range from 1.0 to infinity. Ideally, a PUE
value approaching 1.0 would indicate 100%
efficiency (i.e. all power used by IT equipment only). Currently, there are no comprehensive data sets which show the true spread of the PUE for datacenters. Some preliminary work indicates that many datacenters may have a PUE of 3.0 or greater, but with proper design a PUE value of 1.6 should be achievable. This theory is supported by measurements completed by Lawrence Berkley National Labs which shows that the 22 datacenters measured had PUE values in the 1.3 to 3.0 range. Other research indicates that PUE values of 2.0 are achievable with proper design. However, there is currently no comprehensive industry data set that shows accurate PUE statistics for datacenters.
Source: Green Grid
www.thegreengrid.com
tPowerITEquipmenityPowerTotalFacilPUE =
Source: The Green Grid
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Design Guide Logical Division
Where does the power go?
How do you keep track of the DC energy inefficiencies?
Source: The Green Grid
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Energy Efficiency and Cost
What are you using to measure your Data Centre energy consumption?
How do you plan your energy strategy?
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Understanding DemandUnderstand current usage of your capacity by
measuring real power and cooling consumption
Understanding DemandUnderstand current usage of your capacity by
measuring real power and cooling consumption
Physical Equipment ProvisioningQuickly locate the optimum spot for that next server based on; availability needs of the new equipment and actual data
center physical capacity.
Physical Equipment ProvisioningQuickly locate the optimum spot for that next server based on; availability needs of the new equipment and actual data
center physical capacity.
Predict Spare CapacityEnable understanding of available capacity by modelling real power and cooling consumption against data center
design limitations.
Predict Spare CapacityEnable understanding of available capacity by modelling real power and cooling consumption against data center
design limitations.
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IT vs
Energy challenges●
Cloud computing is leading towards larger corporate data centres
and higher densities.
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Larger data centres
(as opposed to distributed ones) can be better managed and can have higher efficiencies.
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It is estimated that the IT industry has the same carbon footprint as the global aviation industry.
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It is estimated that a medium-sized server has roughly the same annual carbon footprint as an SUV vehicle doing 6.37km per litre.
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It also revealed that the energy consumption of servers and data centres
in the USA has doubled in the past five years
and is expected to almost double again in the next five years to an annual cost of around $7.4 billion.
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Cloud Computing
Source: McKinsey & Company
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Cloud Computing
Source: McKinsey & Company
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Cloud Computing
Source: McKinsey & Company
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Cloud Computing
Source: McKinsey & Company
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City of Boorondara: Case Study
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City of Boorondara: Case Study
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IT strategies that are paying off
There is no “one size fits all” solution.
The integration of an intelligent design and of well selected technologies will provide data centres
with the flexibility that is required to adapt to new IT requirements and business needs. That adaptation will allow CIOs
and CEOs to achieve their energy and sustainability target.
Measuring, monitoring and trending is absolutely required to meet the targets.
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Efficient design & engineering and systems integration
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Virtualisation
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Measuring as a target enabler
Monitoring and trending will lead the way to effective results:
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IT power consumption●
Cooling power consumption
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Dynamic PUE monitoring●
Energy consumption against target
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Capacity management at the rack level
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Periodical reports
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What is the number one challengenumber one challenge your data centre faces today?
A:
Q:2008 IDC study
Power and cooling 21.8%
Customers are asking for help – we must respond
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Data Centre Design?
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Data Centre Design?
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Data Centre Design?Design Memoranda:
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Industry (IT) standards for data centres●
Hot and cold aisle separation
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Comfort cooling vs
Precision cooling●
Design best practices
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Modularity of power and cooling●
Scalability
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Pay As You Grow●
CapEx
Vs OpEx
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Availability considerations (Uptime)●
Efficiency
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Energy Efficiency
Improved energyefficiency can beachieved only by
Design
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Energy Efficiency
APC Efficiency Calculation Tools
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Traditional Data Centre
23oC Return air
12oC Supply air
30oC Hot aisle temp
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InRow with Containment
Hot aisle 32oC – 35oC
21oC supply air temp
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Standard servers: 11oC delta T
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InRow with Containment
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Row-based, chilled water cooling solutions for medium to large data centres including high density applications.
InRow®
RC, RP and RD
Up to 60kW●Availability
•Placing the unit in the row of racks moves the source of cooling
closer to the heat load. This eliminates air mixing and provides a predictable cooling architecture.•Monitors and actively adjusts cooling capacity to ensure proper server inlet temperatures through the use of Active Response Controls.
●Agility•Modular design increases agility by providing scaleable solutions to add cooling as demand increases.
●Total Cost of Ownership•Variable speed fans reduce energy consumption during off-peak cooling periods.
The predictable solution for an unpredictable environment
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InRow Cooling Green Advantage●
33% more efficient than central or computer room air handlers (sensible cooling operation)
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Reduced air distribution length scale
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No water consumption from make-up humidification
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Less overall energy used for cooling
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Higher efficiency due to high precision control and installation
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Increases usable power and space for IT equipment
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Efficiency
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Chiller efficiency●
Increased supply water temperature to the chiller●
Lower total chilled water flow rate●
Warmer air return●
Increased capacity●
Less humidification required●
Reduced Fan Energy●
Less Complex Air Distribution●
Enables Variable Fan Speed Technology
InRow
Cooling Architecture Advantages
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In SummaryMore efficient data centres
can be built. The technology
is available, the skills and expertise are available. We can do more with less! If the proper cultural change
is facilitated and if intelligent design is implemented.Energy efficiency is based on facts, the continuous
measuring of the data centre energy efficiency will enable the required energy and carbon footprint savings.
As well as a manageable solution over full life of the Data Centre.
The design and integration of data centre should respond tothe business needs and IT strategy requirements.
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