Sanja Milovanović, ENEL PS Dani tehnološkog umeća DATUM Beograd, 2017 Kako optimizovati operativni rad data Data Center Infrastructure Management DCIM centra 1
Data Center Management: Good Questions DC Life Phase Target Plan Design Build Operate Assess What are my best options? What am I going to improve or build? Who will manage my construction? How do I operate at optimum levels? Where am I now?
Operate at Optimum Levels Trends Cloud Computing lead to IaaS, with YoY growth of 29%, 2014-2019 Digitalization of business processes Background: virtualization, mobility, big data Complexity Solutions - Complexity Gartner, 2016
Why DCIM Pain Points Business C-level IT/Facility Resources usage not visible Business impact of changes not visible Efficiency not optimized Investments not optimized Operational risks Optimum investments Business continuity and flexibility to market Brand protection Undefined points Overlapping competences
The main drivers for purchasing DCIM Availability Scalability Criticality Complexity Collaboration/sharing/organization Efficiency Regulatory Density
Need for DCIM How Does DCIM Improve Planning and Cut Operational Costs? Business executives are challenging their IT staffs to convert data centers from cost centers into producers of business value. Data centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by enabling the business to respond more quickly to market demands.
Benefits from DCIM DCIM helps integrate IT and facilities management of a data center; achieve greater energy efficiency; what-if simulations show how the resources/assets are interrelated; save on unnecessary purchases
DCIM Becomes the Central Point of Operational Efficiency DCIM Capacity Planning Analytics Simulation Optimization Data Management Reporting IT Systems, VM Management etc. Data collection meters, sensors
Understanding DCIM: Solution Segments Monitoring Monitoring DCIM
Data Centers and the Environment Energy and Sustainability Track and manage enterprise energy and carbon costs Building Management Monitor and control facility energy, fire and HVAC Data Center Management Manage data center assets, operational and capital costs Power Monitoring Advanced power monitoring, control and analysis IT Infrastructure and Device Monitoring Advanced monitoring and control
Data Center Portal Dashboards and Mobile Apps CMDB, BMS, CRM Systems, IT Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Change Systems... Integration Integration Integartion ntral onitoring stem with ndor-neutral vices pport Integration Assets Management, Data Center Model, Power, Cooling, Space and IT SNMP, ModBus, Dry Contacts Controlling Monitoring Integration Integration Integration Physical Infrastructure Cooling Infrastructure IT Assets IT Management Systems Change Managment HP OneView HP ucmdb
Examples of IT Infrastructure Information UPS Information Battery Health Voltage Load Frequency PDU Information Device Status Output kw Voltage Cooling Equipment Information Rack Temperature Cooler Status Cooling Setpoint Fan Speed, Air Flow Security/Environmental Information Door accessed Water Leak detected Temperature Humidity
Integration Examples with leading software solutions Asset Discovery Increased Availability Efficiency
Integration with Cisco UCS Unified Computing System Asset Discovery Enables auto discovery of assets managed by Cisco UCS Manager. Installed components are discovered and inventoried. Power/CPU Utilization IT manager can view the power and CPU of every asset managed by the Cisco UCS Manager and receive notice of physical infrastructure events and their impact on the IT infrastructure. Power Capping Provides a mechanism to control the maximum power a piece of Cisco managed equipment could draw, thus preventing any overloads of circuits. Increase of Availability Proactive monitoring of power and cooling thresholds and trends before reaching critical levels and impacting application performance.
Integration with VMware Links Physical and Virtual Environments - Network manager, or a partner offering managed services can monitor their entire IT environment, including power, cooling, security, and environmental data from VMware vsphere, and receive notice of physical infrastructure events and their impact on the IT infrastructure Automated VM Integration - Provides an automated response to physical infrastructure events, moving virtual machines from impacted host servers to healthy host servers for uninterrupted uptime. Enables partners offering managed services to proactively simulate and identify how a physical device failure will impact business critical applications. Increased Availability Proactive monitoring of power and cooling thresholds and trends before reaching critical levels and impacting application performance.
Data Center Operation Integration 4. DCIM informed the VM manager, which host servers and VMs are affected 3. DCIM: Problem Impact Analysis 5. Virtual Machine Manager Healthy host servers will be found 2. Monitoring: Problem Registration 6. 1 1. UPS Problem anager will migrate ffected VMs to thy host server 2 3 4 UP S A UP S B
DCIM Integration with Asset Management: ServiceNow Purpose: ServiceNow Asset Management controls the inventory that is purchased, and manages the asset life cycle from planning to disposal The integration of the Service Now Asset Management data into DCIM simplifies the management of the complex data and reduces data manipulation, providing a single source of unique truth. The goal of this integration is to import new, modified or deleted updates of data about the assets from ServiceNow into StruxureWare Data Center Operation.
Integration with HP OneView Capability - Manage constraints within IT services and facilities. Rapid identification of available physical resources: space, power, cooling, network, IP, etc. for service provisioning. Intelligence - Maintains changes and enforces policies across IT and infrastructure. True linkage of workload-to-watts, enabling per-process total cost of ownership. Efficiency - Eliminates operational silos, enabling single-point data entry and control. Minimizes potential for errors. Enhances visibility of infrastructure impact to end users.
Integration with HP ucmdb Capacity - Manage capacity constraints within virtual and physical layers Rapid location of available resources: space, power, colling, network, IT Intelligence - Manage change and enforce best practices and policies across IT and infrastructure Automatically maintain compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements True linkage of workload-to-watts, enabling per-process total cost of ownership Efficiency - Improve capital resources efficiency and management, and full spectrum lifecycle management. Manage data center energy and operating costs.visibility of infrastructure impact to end users.
Software Integration is based on ETL Framework ETL - tools that Extract, Transform and Load information across systems. Traditionally ETL tools were used in business intelligence, but have become the primary software tool for data integration. Based on the ETL system, it is possible to develop custom data sources integrations. The ETL system creates databases which can be accessed directly by 3rd party tools and solutions. It also allows scheduled data import and export. Data Transformation
Interfaces: Open APIs, Built-in Integration with External Systems L allows data import from monitoring system, chronizing information with asset management lution or change management software. ta Center Operation is also providing set of web rvices that provide access. ild integration is offered with following systems: Data Center Operation RESTful Web Service ETL C Remedy rvicenow FCode P ucmdb P OneView isco UCS ware vsphere icrosoft SCOM External Systems Data Transformatio n
What is ETL Integration? Extracting data from outside sources Transforming it to fit operational needs Loading it into the target database Data Center Operation email files external system old systems systems ETL Stagin g DB DCO DB databases cloud services
Integration with 3rd Party Using ETL Use Cases Examples Import measured data from Building Management System Synchronizing information with database systems Synchronizing information with change management software / Service Desk Benefits / Value Proposition No synchronization needed between DCIM and ETL systems No conflict resolution handling Auto-association
DCIM Integration with Change / Buiding / Asset / Management 1. A new change ticket/ asset/ is created 4. The DCIM data is synced in the external software 2. The data automatically appears in DCIM 3. DCIM creates proper association
Change Management: ServiceNow Needs DCO Operators shouldn t need to access ServiceNow ServiceNow needs to automatically receive work order status updates Solution Import change requests, assigned to the DCIM user group from ServiceNow Synchronization of the change request status at every step of the work order process: ticket received in DCO, work in progress, work order cancelled Task running every 30 minutes, new change requests are displayed almost instantly in DCO
ServiceNow: Integration with DCIM for Asset Management 1. An asset is created or updated in ServiceNow 2. The new asset appears in DCIM 4. Asset information from StruxureWare Data Center Operation is synced back to ServiceNow 3. DCO user associate the new asset with asset in DCIM
Integration with BMC Remedy
DCIM Integration with BMS System Facilities often use separate systems to manage IT infrastructure and building functions. Yet, each system s performance is influenced by events that occur in the other s domain Benefits By integrating IT infrastructure and building management, the personnel gains real-time monitoring and control of events occuring within both domains The personnel is now well equipped to make both short and long term decisions and to improve overall performance and efficiency of the whole facility
Integration with BMS More Benefits Optimized, cost efficient facility control navigation from one workstation for facility and IT resources Improve energy management of overall facility, knowing energy consumption of power and cooling by IT equipment Increased access to information - Speed up building operator response to issues that affect critical IT areas Higher productivity dispatch the right person to the exact location at the precise time, only when needed, with all the necessary information to identify problems or conditions onfidentia
DCIM Integration with BMS How it is done DCIM Built-in Integration Centralized Monitoring BMS BACNet Database Modbus TCP Automation Server Gateway to Modbus Data Transformation
Automatize the processes of DCIM with BMS Simulation, Asset Auto-discovery & Auto-association, Auto-Sync of Measured Data, Alarm Notification Integration of DCIM with BMS allows automatic pass of all measured data and device status from BMS to DCIM. In turn, DCIM auto-associates these data with devices. For example, thermal airflow is automatically adapted to respond to the dynamic environment in a data center. DCIM allows to simulate and analyse impact of hypothetical situations as device failure, temperature increase, device maintenance, etc.
Automatization of DCIM with BMS Workflow Management Workflow, Work Orders, Tasks, Planning and Integration with BMC Remedy DCIM allows to automatically select best location for new IT Equipment based on power, cooling, network connection, redundancy and automatically create work order with tasks. DCIM provides automated workflow system allowing operators to create and assign approval tasks, work orders, bundle work orders into to the projects. Installation, move, removal, and more preconfigured tasks are defined and automatically used
Automatize the DCIM with Database Systems Simulation, Asset Auto-discovery & Auto-association, Auto-Sync of Measured Data, Alarm Notification Integration with HP OneView, Cisco UCS, HP ucmdb, ServiceNow, RF Code and other CMDB systems allows automatic and dynamic discovery of assets. Based on IT asset SN, Name etc. Data Center Operation is able to auto-associate IT assets in the data center model. Integration of Data Center Operation with VMware vsphere, Microsoft SCOM allows automatic and dynamic discovery of host servers including VMs that are running on them. Based on host server SN, Name etasset parameters, Data Center Operation auto-associates host server in the data center model. In case of critical events in physical infrastructure such as power, cooling, security, VMs can be automatically migrated.
Automatize the processes of DCIM Simulation, Asset Auto-discovery & Auto-association, Auto-Sync of Measured Data, Alarm Notification DCIM allows to automatically select the best location for new IT Equipment based on power, cooling, network connection, redundancy etc. Power, cooling, space and network capacities are dynamically calculated DCIM simulates and analyses impact of situations like device maintenance, device failure, temperature increase
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Room Level Energy Values Integration, measuring and simulation Rack Level StruxureWare Data Centre Operation Capacity module maps the power path and physical system relationships and dependencies, providing detailed overview of electrical distribution and phase balancing for a detailed impact analysis with measured and estimated data. Measured power data prevents overloads through graphical display of average and peak power usage by measuring actual consumption through metered rack PDUs and branch circuit monitoring.
Temperature and environmental values - Integration, measuring and simulation Struxureware Data Center Operation Capacity module provides 2D and 3D airflow analysis where it can simulate any cooling scenario in a data center, instantly visualizing the cooling effect on the infrastructure for easy identification of overcooling and hotspots. Using measured environmental data from Struxureware Data Center Expert, Struxureware Data Center Operation IT Optimize or integrated other monitoring systems (such as BMS) Struxureware Data Center Operation Capacity module is able to generate 3D heat maps of the rooms and racks, showing instantly hotspots.