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 3
Choices in Handling Change Build Cloud Colocation The Best Choice May Be To Extend the Life of Your Existing Data Center 4
Extend the Life of the Data Center 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 5
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
Intelligent, integrated infrastructure in a self contained line-up Needs Addressed Integrated design Standardization Low 1 st cost & operating cost Availability Speed of deployment Applications Capacity: 20kW Racks: 3-6 Key Applications: Small data centers; remote sites
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
SmartRow TM Airflow Management
SmartRow TM Benefits Efficient Significant energy savings from enclosed precision cooling system, variable capacity and intelligent controls Optimizes space efficiency through integrated system Economical Room neutral: No effect on existing space Reduce cost of installation: no need to undertake expensive upgrades to fire suppression, cooling capacity or flooring Interoperable Can be deployed in just weeks: simple in design & deployment Local data center experts and service teams for configuration, installation, maintenance, repair Control Monitors temperature and controls precision cooling operating levels accordingly Monitors equipment for quicker response & resolution
SmartRow TM Design & Cost Example Situation: deploy 18 kw of IT to a non-it ready room Conventional Design 18 kw, 288 sq ft 1 rows, 6 racks Ceiling mounted ducted cooling (6) 5 kva UPS Room renovation, fire suppression SmartRow 18 kw, 288 sq ft 1 row, 6 racks 1 Liebert Challenger 6 Liebert GXT 5 kva Room neutral
SmartRow TM Cost Comparison Room Costs contractor, installation, engineering services Infrastructure Equipment UPS, distribution, cooling, racks, fire suppression Annual Energy Consumption power & cooling equipment energy use Conventional SmartRow Cost Savings % Savings $60,000 $43,000 $17,000 28% $105,000 $109,000 -$4,000-3% Total CapEx $165,000 $152,000 $13,000 8% $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% 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
Intelligent, integrated infrastructure using row-based building blocks 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
Mission: Continue to Connect to Everything Regardless of Vendor Leveraging Avocent firmware expertise
Trellis Universal Management Gateway 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 Digital Rack Interface Pod Provides Digital KVM access Powered directly from server Backup power provided by Universal Management Gateway Based on Avocent ASIC technology
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
Customer Benefits Availability Efficiency & Cost Capacity Planning & Agility Compliance Predict outage risks Monitor facilities / IT dependencies Automate impact analyses Reduce MTTR Eliminate risk with root cause analyses Identify redundancy gaps 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 Simplify complex eco-system management
SmartAisle at the DVL Efficiency Lab 115 Sinclair Road Bristol, PA 19007
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Key Takeaways 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 24
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