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IT Trends Affecting New Technologies and Energy
Efficiency Imperatives in the Data Center
Hisham Elzahhar
Regional Enterprise & System Manager,
Schneider Electric IT business EMEA, Dubai
Keystrokes Kilowatts
Heat OUT
Electricity IN
Natural Gas
Other Renewables
20% Petroleum
2%
Source US EIA
BUILDING
infrastructure
DATA CENTER
“Building systems”
systems”
infrastructure
HVAC Power
Electrical system IT
Fire suppression
Cooling infrastructure NETWORK
Racks
Lighting
Management “IT assets”
assets” infrastructure
Security
Lighting Servers, storage Switches, cabling,
BMS
Fire suppression hypervisors, NMS routers
Physical security
Schneider Electric - Division - Name – Date 5
WHICH infrastructure?
Focus of this
discussion
BUILDING
infrastructure
DATA CENTER
“Building systems”
systems”
infrastructure
HVAC Power
Electrical system IT
Fire suppression
Cooling infrastructure NETWORK
Racks
Lighting
Management “IT assets”
assets” infrastructure
Security
Lighting Servers, storage Switches, cabling,
BMS
Fire suppression hypervisors, NMS routers
Physical security
Schneider Electric - Division - Name – Date 6
Data center planning and operation
is under increasing pressures
Increasing availability Rapid changes in
expectations IT technology
Uncertain
long-term plans for Energy and service
capacity or density cost control pressure
High density
blade server Dynamic power
power/heat variation
Regulatory Server
requirements consolidation
of data centers
2000 2009
Provide power and cooling in the amount needed, when needed, and
where needed – but no more than what is required for redundancy
and safety margins
But we can’
can’t manage what we can’
can’t measure
Power to COOLING
Secondary
Support system
Power
to IT
White
paper
=
Data Center infrastructure Efficiency Power to
( )%
data center
113
Schneider Electric - Division - Name – Date 11
Datacenter Efficiency
Data Center
Physical Infrastructure
IT
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s t IN
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sy W
PO
1mW
DCiE @ 47%
45 racks @ 10kW
1 omponents
MODULAR and SCALABLE, with best-in-class EFFICIENCY
2 lose-
lose-coupled cooling™
Placement of cooling units near the heat source
3 ontainment
Thermal containment of airflow in high-density zones
4 apacity management
Instrumented intelligence to optimize use of power and
cooling capacity
Efficient
Agile
Scalable
MODULAR SCALABLE component design
100%
90%
80%
Data center 70% Efficiency degrades at low loads
E ffic ie n c y
Efficiency 60%
50%
40%
30% Typical load range
20%
10%
0%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
60%
Efficiency
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Hot aisle
90%
Cooling Efficiency
80%
Cooling
efficiency 70%
60%
50%
40%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
IT
% ITload
Load
Cooling efficiency = useful cooling power / (power consumed + useful cooling power)
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ontainment
Eliminate expensive temperature cross-contamination
with thermal containment options
Rear
Containment
InRow InRow
cooling cooling
unit unit
● Rear containment prevents
hot exhaust air from escaping
C o o lin g E f f ic ie n c y
●Needless dehumidification /
re-humidification is eliminated 70%
Capacity grouping
Specify architecture
capabilities to; match IT
equipment with availability
needs ad avoid stranded
Airflow analysis space, power and cooling
Locate new devices without capacity
overheating new or existing
equipment by simulating Available capacity
changes in; supply Understand available capacity by Design analysis
temperature, airflow and calculating actual space, power Model the effects of and
number of cooling units and cooling consumption against compare alternative layouts
data center architecture through detailed design
constraints analysis
Schneider Electric - Division - Name – Date 32
Capacity and energy
management
●Poor utilization of capacity is a
primary cause of inefficiency
●Software can identify available
capacity (even by rack) and
help prevent creation of
stranded capacity
●Side effect is you can fit more
IT equipment in the power and
cooling “envelope” of the data
center
Infrastructure Central Software
●Energy management can With Capacity Manager
identify efficiency improvement
opportunities
Aux Devices
Lights
Generator
these device categories
PDU
UPS
0%
0.0% 20% 40.0%
20.0% 40% 60.0%
60% 80.0%
80% 100.0%
100% 120.0%
120%
Powerconsumption
Power Consumptionas as % the
% of of IT
IT Load
load
Reference: APC White Paper 114 Data for a typical tier 4 data center operating at 30% of rated load
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Drivers of infrastructure efficiency gains
(Baseline: Average of existing installed base)
$$ saved over 15
IMPROVEMENT Device Gain DCiE Gain years in a 1MW data
center**
415/240 V transformerless
power distribution (NAM)*
4% 2.5% $1,500,000
*No benefit outside of NAM; Transformer based PDUs typically in NAM only
**$$ values
Schneider Electric - based on –$.15
Division - Name Date per kwh electric cost, starting DCiE of 47%, ave density 8KW/rack 35
Power Chain Losses – Could Be
4,930 barrels
6,539 tons CO2 Per mW/yr
47 tons SO2
16 tons N2O
1,971 barrels
2,615 tons CO2 1mW
19 tons SO2
6 tons N2O
400kW
@ 70%
DCiE