Datacenter Infrastructure Management: Orchestrating Space, Power and Cooling Athens, April 2014 Dimitris IOANNOU Sales Manager, E&S Services Schneider Electric
What is the Greatest Data Center Challenge you Face? 654 respondents % 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Data center space, power and/or cooling Aligning activities with the business Modernizing our legacy systems Developing a private / public cloud strategy Making do with a smaller budget Managing the rate of technology change Virtualization Finding / retaining talent Determining how to source IT services Jay Pulz: DCIM: New Tools to Monitor, Manage and Control Power, Gartner, December 2010 2
Data Center Management Challenges Data Center Availability Business Efficiency 3
The Data Center Infrastructure Breakout Facility Responsible for critical power and cooling supplies IT Responsible for IT operations Applications/Virtualization/Cloud Compute Power/Storage Space/Network Access Servers/Storage Units/Networking Equipment Critical Power & Cooling Building/Security/Physical Space 4
POWER COOLING SPACE 5
POWER COOLING SPACE 6
Data Center Power Fluctuation PAST PRESENT FUTURE DC Capacity DC Capacity 7
Power Variation at the SERVER level PowerEdge R720 Intel Xeon E5-2670, 2.6 GHz 16 cores, 2 chips, 8 cores/chip 6 x 4096 MB 1 x 100GB SATA SSD Nameplate: 495W Real Power Variations: 51 231W Optimal performance: 70% CPU load @ 159W Efficiency gain (60% vs 10%): x 3 Source: http://www.spec.org 8
Data Center Power Capacity Planning Worst Case Design Planning 21 servers per rack (Cloud/HPC) 20 racks per POD 8 PODs in the Room PUE = 1.54 Nameplate Full Performance Optimal Performance Server Rack POD Room Facility 495W 10.4kW 208kW 1.67MW 2.57MW 231W 4.9kW 98kW 777kW 1.20MW 159W 3.4kW 67kW 535kW 823MW 9
My Rack Capacity? rpdu: 16A @ 230V = 3.68kW rpdu readings: Rack 3: 2.4kW Rack 5: 1.1kW Where would you install the next server? 10
Understanding your cooling dynamics Temperature threshold violation!!! Humidity threshold violation!!! What does it all mean? Cause Effect Rapid increase in hot aisle temperature Fan speed alert 11
What can we do to be proactive? Simulations! 12
Getting in control of your COOLING Theoretical Heat Map Actual Heat Map Actual Screenshots of Schneider Electric s StruxureWare for Data Centers 13
Getting in control of your COOLING Theoretical Heat Map Theoretical Velocity Map Actual Screenshots of Schneider Electric s StruxureWare for Data Centers 14
for Data Centers A la carte applications Data Center Dashboard Resource Advisor Enterprise Energy Operation Online Energy Operation Advanced DCIM Data Center Operation Building Operation Asset Operation Power Monitoring Expert Power SCADA Expert Operations Data Center Infrastructure Management Data Center Expert Process Expert Building Expert Security Expert Control 15
BMS Power Management Cooling Control VM Management Server Management CMDB IT Tickets Too much data in siloed systems Facility Management IT Management 16
BMS Power Management Cooling Control VM Management Server Management CMDB IT Tickets Seamless integration of key data Facility Management IT Management Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) 17
DCIM becomes the centerpiece for operational efficiency Facility Management (BMS, Power Management, Cooling control, etc.) DCIM Capacity Planning Analytics Simulation Optimization Data Management Reporting IT Systems, VM Management, Etc. Data collection, meters, sensors, etc. 18
1 Managing Power, Cooling and Space remains the primary challenge in DCs 2 DCIM is the way to eliminate risks in Data Center operation by proactive Capacity Planning 3 StruxureWare for Data Centers supports your decision making with knowledge rather then information overload 19
Dimitris Ioannou Sales Manager, E&S Services Mobile: +30 6948980935 dimitris.ioannou@schneider-electric.com www.schneider-electric.com According to IDC analysis and buyer perception, Schneider Electric is an IDC MarketScape Leader worldwide. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Datacenter Infrastructure Management 2013 Vendor Analysis, Jennifer Koppy, June 2013 20