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Going GreenPhil Burris

Agenda

Introduction

MITC Infrastructure/DataCenter

Current Status

Future Goals

Cascading Power Saving Strategies

Challenges

Additional Links

Going Green Information Technology

IT Approach:•Balance of fiscal & environmental value

“Optimal use of information and communication technology (ICT) for managing the environmental sustainability of enterprise operations and the supply chain, as well as that of its products, services and resources, throughout their life cycles.“*

* -As defined by Gartner

Data Center “Darkroom” Infrastructure

Cooling & Heating

Power Availability& Distribution

Compute Cycles

Storage

Internal & External Connectivity

Policy of reuse or recycling for the disposal of all used servers, racks, printers and network equipment.

Today’s Green Initiatives

Implementing Power6 CPU standards –technology for server consolidation and virtualization, delivers more energy efficient performance

Using 12 blade chassis and virtual technology ,thus using less power when idling than their predecessors

Replacing CRAC units with a new more energy efficient models. Current units 15-20 year useful life

Migrated to new disk technology that uses less power than preceeding models

Future Green Initiatives

Removing physical servers and implementing virtualized servers76 less physical servers in the Data Center

All new application servers are to use blade or virtual technology ,If supported by application standards

Replacing standard CRAC units with “in-row” or variable units

Implement 10 Cascading Power Saving Strategies:

Every watt saved at the equipment level has a cascading effect upstream

1 watt saves approx. 2.84 watts total

Air Flow and Cooling Site Survey

Cascading Power Saving Strategies:

IT HardwareLow-power ProcessorsHigh-efficiency Power SuppliesServer Power ManagementBlade Servers

Operational Best PracticesServer VirtualizationPower Distribution ArchitectureImplement Cooling Best Practices

Power and Cooling Product EfficienciesVariable-capacity CoolingHigh-density Supplemental CoolantMonitoring and Optimization

Difficult and expensive to retrofit an older existing Data Center from a facilities standpoint

Justifying the investment (Green is good but must provide balanced value)

Competing with other investmentsExisting economic conditionsCapital constraints / Payback period

Operational lifecycles for existing equipmentReliability of older technologies and difficulties of achieving the end on “end of life” projectsSoftware & System complexity sustains & extends hardware lifecycle & slows technology transitioning

Challenges to Going Green

Additional Links:

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/pdfs/doe_data_centers_presentation.pdfDOE Data Center Energy Efficiency Program

DOE Data Centerhttp://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/datacenters/

Energy Star – Enterprise Server and Data Center Energy…http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=prod_development.server_efficiency

ASHRAE Datacom Serieshttp://www.ashrae.org/publications/page/1900

http://www.liebert.com/servicesupport_pages/WhitePapers.aspxEmerson Network Power - Liebert

Q & A

Further questions contact Phil Burris @ phil.burris@louisville.edu or 852.5858