server room presentation 16th january 2014

George Mikael David Bartley Soderman Green

Webinar Series

Server Rooms Energy Efficient Measures

Your Speakers

What we do?

Client Sites

Our data centre

MeshNET_Simcity_Tritech_MalinVindal.jpgSmartmeter and sensors

Information System

Our clients target 40% carbon emissions reduction by 2020

Target

Actual Consumption

But we have discovered a problem Server Rooms !!!

Many of our client have a targer to reduce carbon emissions by 40%

Is there an Elephant in the room?

Ballooning Carbon

THE DCDI 2013 CENSUS UK FIGURES

The issue is our in-house server rooms

THE DCDI 2013 CENSUS UK FIGURES

Your feedback on the issue

Poll 1Is your server room energy separately metered?

Poll 2

Can you measure the PUE in your server room?

If you identify with this issue could you please complete the server room survey on our website

www.buildingsustainability.net/survey/server_rooms.html

Conclusion

Get as many business applications moved off-site and onto the Cloud using an energy efficient Data Centre provider - as soon as possible

Allocating a utility bill to the IT department is a must for encouraging management of this issue.

In-house Server Room(s) versus Outsourced Data Centre

In-house Server RoomsOutsourcedData Centre

Server Utilisationoperate at less than 10% of server processing capacity - one server per application.Can approach 90% using Cloud Applications where multiple tenants are using a single application servers are virtual running on blade processors

Cooling90% overhead PUE of >1.910% overhead Use of free/high efficient cooling- PUE of 1.1

Energy ManagementLow priority - IT Manager rarely even sees the Utility Bill - Usually no separate energy monitoringTop Priority - Managing energy is core to the business process and is linked to bottom line profitability and used to attract clients

In-house Server Room(s) versus Outsourced Data Centre

Reducing server room energy

ConsolidationGet rid of unused servers

Virtualisation of servers

Processor demand responsive scheduling

Room Temperature adjustment

Hot Aisle / Cold Aisle Containment

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Monitor server room energy

We need the right tools!

The Footprint Tracker

Services Grouping

Navigating the data

Navigating the data

Navigating the data

Navigating the data

Managing projects

CuSum

Live ROI Tracker

Blog

Blog

Digital Signage

Content managed

Connects to most types of screens

Using Android or Raspberry Pi hardware

Casestudy

David Green
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge

Department of Engineering Overview

Accounts for around 10% of university.

Activities based in 7 buildings.

Around 600 members of staff

Four year M.Eng course around 1,200 students.

Postgraduate students numbers:

2011 (792) - 2012 (830)

The Problem

BackgroundInitially a distributed arrangement.

Centralised computing resources in two computer rooms (34 racks,12 racks)

Pre 2010 Cooling ArrangementRefrigerant based CRAC system, full recirculation via under floor plenum

63kW plug-load

Key Project DriversUniversity Energy Incentivisation Scheme (EIS)

Further server purchases planned

IT electricity consumption is a significant part of the Departments energy base load

ApproachKJ Tait feasibility study

Support from the Universitys Estate Management

Computing Staff

Salix Funding

The Solution - Installation

Cold aisle containment6 EcoCooling CRECs giving 150kW N+1EC Extract FansAmbient air through louverSelf contained plant roomNo raised floor

Before Energy Use 2010

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IT Load~63kWCooling and Lighting~35kWPUE of 1.65

The Results Energy Use 2011

PUE of 1.1

Engineerings Data Centre electrical loads

300 MWh electrical base load

Pre 2010 35% = Server rooms

Now 2 x Data Centres and 23% of base load

Purchasing vs energy performance

Risks Reliability and Maintenance

Initially maintenance was not comprehensively scheduled

Location - surprising amount of large fibres caught by insect screen in the Spring

3 monthly maintenance of the equipment is required

Routine deep cleaning of facility to ISO 7

With internal installation room cleanliness needs to be maintained

Move as many applications to The Cloud as possible minimising the number of in-house servers

Sub-meter all server rooms and measure PUE

Rationalise in-house servers

identify redundant equipment and power down

Assess the potential to reduce the PUE in you server rooms

Increase Room temperature

Implement hot/aisle containment

Come and discuss your plans with Building Sustainability!

What next?

Further reading

http://www.buildingsustainability.nethttp://www.talkingbuilding.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/BuildingSustainabilityLtdhttps://twitter.com/BSLEnergyTeam

Phone: +44 20 7193 8967

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