GEANT Green Best Practices

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1 GEANT Green Best Practices Andrew Mackarel NORDUNET Conference Sept 2012 Oslo

2 GEANT Studies! Leader of NAT3-T5 GEANT Environmental team comprised of individuals who are interested in Environmental aspects from 6 NRENs! Recently produced latest version GEANT deliverable DN Study of Environmental Impact Contains a series of chapters on topics about Test Cases from particular NRENs experiences and supplemented with examples from other groups and companies who have published their own studies in these areas. Each chapter has a series of recommendations some of which I will discuss now Before year end we will produce a condensed Best Practices Guide

3 Best Case Practices! NREN GHG Audit Reviews! Environmental Policy! Green Management Systems! Power Usage Effectiveness! Virtualisation! Video Conferencing! Remote / Distance Working! Green Public Purchasing! Green Electricity and the effect of Renewable Energy Sources

4 Environmental Policy! Each NREN should draw up an Environmental Policy, which can be customised to meet its own requirements.! An alternative solution is that the GÉANT Environmental Team draws up a generic policy for those NREN organisations that do not have resources available so that they can sign up and practice this common policy.! On its website, GÉANT should display a common environmental website, clearly identifying the aligned NRENs.! A separate area on this website would display the logos of NRENs that have their own policy, and include a link to the URL of their policy documentation.

5 NREN GHG Audit Reviews! GHG Audit approach is well documented now! GÉANT needs to set targets for number of additional NRENs that will comply and carry out audits in their own networks.! Promotional incentives needed to encourage NRENs to participate in the Audit Programme.! Audit Body 3 RD Party Force Group,now need an evaluation to see if this is a practical solution for the future.! An internal audit team can be identified and offered as a preliminary audit resource or as the final audit verification group.! A normalisation process to benchmark audit results, as NREN networks vary in size, geographic distribution, technologies employed, and are sourced from which they are energised.! A Wiki Repository should also be identified to hold support documents and work in progress files.! Benchmark against other NRENs.

6 Power Usage Effectiveness! The energy efficiency of a data centre is commonly measured and reported as the Power Usage Effectiveness, (PUE).. PUE = Total Facility Power / IT Equipment Power! PUE is therefore expressed as a ratio, with overall efficiency improving as the quotient decreases toward 1.! NRENs ask data centres providers where they colocate to supply PUE figures for these centres.! Reference and use the document 2012 Best Practices for the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centres, version Dec. 2011, published under the European Codes of Conduct for ICT! For Data centre NRENs should consider the lifecycle cost benefit of using a data centre with lower values.! choose data centres that use free air cooling then next choice water cooling, as this will reduce PUE values for a data centre.

7 Virtualisation! Virtualise as many servers => reduce number of machines in use.! Apply a maximum rule of numbers of virtual servers! review this rule on an annual basis.! Maximise server utilisation.! Evaluate the lifecycle costs for Total Cost of Ownership TCO! Schedule replacement program for servers, every three years.! Optimise the numbers of servers per rack. Segregate client-hosted virtual servers from network ops units use PDUs with power monitoring facilities to determine energy usage.! Consider network-as-a-service functionality.! OpenNaaS to have server access to build logical virtual networks.! New virtualisation requirements, such as cloud storage services emerging => promote the activity and share best practices experiences with other NRENs.

8 Video Conferencing! Actively promote videoconferencing facilities for e- learning opportunities.! For teams that are geographically dispersed with regular team meetings, hold a face-to-face meeting initially to get to know participants, and have an agenda item on how to mobilise and best use videoconference facilities.! Encourage regular users to setup rooms to cater for their videoconference and publicise these settings in their communications.! NRENs should monitor usage of supported videoconference equipment and publish the metrics.! Run a competition for the most innovative use of videoconferencing and reward the users with publicity.! Highlight team use of videoconferencing and show the time, distance-travel saved and CO2 emission figures, building mini case studies for each organisation.! Promote one-to-one videoconference usage.

9 Remote / Distance Working! Encourage your NREN organisation to publish a full procedure for distance working or Telecommuting,! apply this procedure as widely as possible in the organisation.! Motivate Staff who may engage in Distance Working to setup comfortable office-style accommodation at home.! Review employee network connectivity services to maximise the advantages of distance working.! For short stays at the office, including partial days, encourage practical usage of distance working.! Document all the benefits accrued on a 6-month basis! Promote Video Conference Usage

10 Green Public Purchasing! Check local green procurement rules and policies.! When considering new procurements use the European Commission publication Buying Green! A Handbook on green public procurement and the associated test cases as a reference to making equipment or services quotes, tenders or purchases.! Attempt to always buy equipment that has ecolabels, such as Energy Star or its European equivalents.! Another useful source to consider is EPAET, which is the global register for Greener Electronics

11 Green Electricity and the effect of Renewable Energy Sources! Purchase electricity / energy supplies from certified renewable energy suppliers or those companies who activitely promote such energy generation. Encourage clients with large campuses to active pursue renewable energy generation projects.! Plan for network outages or disruptions should your energy suppliers aggressively target and integrate large proportions of renewable energy supply into their networks.! If applying for Carbon Offset, ensure such solutions are permanent, not double counted and have a valid baseline determination.! Highlight any decisions taken in your NREN s! GHG audit programme to increase awareness

12 Client Support! Plan for dissemination activity with clients in all areas of experience.! Be open to show best-case practices and case studies in all areas of experience.! Align with national or international programmes that supply client organisations.! Highlight achievements in any PR publications and develop relationships with other program sponsors and local client teams.! Work with other Initiatives that maybe be active such as Foundation for Environmental Education FEE. HEAnet local co-ordinator An Taisce is actively working audit programs at 20 of our clients

13 OpenNaaS / Mantychore and GSN-ECOLOTIC! OpenNaaS demonstrated to have! Bandwidth on Demand! Virtual CPE (available now)! Green Information Model being developed as part of Mantychore Work Package 7 modelling algorithms and identifing parameters used to make decision for VM migration to data centres which are powered by Renewable Energy sources.

14 DN Study of Environmental Impact at Deliverables.aspx. Thank You