Calculating Total Power Requirements Outline

Course Description:
Part of data center planning and design is the process of aligning power requirements of the IT
equipment with the capacity of the infrastructure. This course presents methods for calculating
power requirements and provides guidelines for determining total electrical power capacity needed
to support the data center.

Course Outline:
Learning Objectives
At the completion of this course, you will be able to:
Calculate total power requirements for a data center.
Finalize the electrical capacity calculation for a data center’s
o Electrical Service
o Generator Standby Power Systems
Recognize the benefits to “right sizing” your power needs.
Discuss the power evolution and how multi-core processor technology has created dynamic
loads.

Agenda
Introduction
Identifying Availability Requirements
Determining Load Requirements:
o Critical Loads
o Future Critical Loads
o Peak Power Draw
o UPS Loads
o Lighting Loads
o Cooling Loads
Finalizing Electrical Capacity Computation
o Electrical Service
o Generator Standby Power Systems
Planning for Future Changes
Summary

Course Content or Material

1) Introduction
a) Assessment is essential part of data center planning and design
b) Data Center Architecture
i) Evolved from fixed centralized components
(a) Mobile

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 (b) Modular
(c) Standardized
(d) Flexible
(e) Scalable

c) Accurately determining these requirements is one of the most important pieces of the overall
data center project process

2) Identifying Availability Requirements

a) Needs Assessment to address availability requirements
b) “N” configurations
c) “N + 1” configuration
d) “2 N” configuration
e) Core Issues

3) Determining Load Requirements

a) Critical Load Requirements
b) Future Load Requirements
c) Peak Power Draws
d) UPS Load Requirements
e) Lighting Load Requirements
f) Cooling Load Requirements

4) Finalizing Electrical Capacity Computation

a) Electrical Service
b) Generator Standby Power Systems

5) Planning for Future Changes

a) CMOS chip
i) Evolution of the CMOS chip
ii) CMOS chip consumed power at a steady rate
b) Multi-core processor chips
i) Multi-core processors power consumption goes up and down
c) Power variances create new challenges
i) Design
ii) Management
d) Power fluctuations
i) Consequences
(1) Tripped circuit breakers
(2) Overheating
(3) Loss of redundancy
e) Multi-Core Processor

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 i) Dynamic loading
ii) Redefined Monitoring Methodologies
(1) Power
(2) Cooling

6) Summary
Assessment process is essential to ensure data center meets end user requirements
o Electric
o Critical load
Availability needs define NCPI topologies
Automated tool help staff quickly identify and size data center loads
Power requirements worksheet includes proper measurement formulas
o UPS
o Generators
o Cooling
o Utility power
New technologies, such as the multi-core processor chip will be introduced that will impact
our power and cooling load calculations in different ways
Accurately calculating total power requirements allow for economic advantages

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