five best practices for ensuring uptime with data center infrastructure management

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Five best practices for ensuring uptime with Data Center Infrastructure Management

Dhesikan Ananchaperumal, VP & CTO, ecoSoftware

Dan Birck, Sr. Principle Product Marketing Manager

Optimizing data center power and cooling for cost and performance

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data center energy management needs to improve…

98% energy

costs

2.5 % US energy consumption is from data centers Uptime and

availability require reliable power and

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5-6 Years for DC power demand to double

20-40%energy lost

before it gets to server

reliable power and cooling

multiple stakeholders have concerns about power in the data center

FacilitiesManager

How can we gain the insights to diagnose and respond when things go

wrong with power??

How can we make power and cooling an integral part of our

capacity planning process?

How do we stay ahead of the

flexibly as our competitors?

How do we stay ahead of the technology curve and run our data centers and cloud as efficiently and

flexibly as our competitors?

How do we power-enable our entire IT platform for reliability, agility and lower cost?

What power demands does IT have, and how can they be

met effectively at lower cost?

IT

Given the adverse effect that Given the adverse effect that power can have on availability, how can we make our services

more resilient and reliable?

Given the power constraints we face, how can we deliver to new business needs and also maintain system uptime?


CIOIT CapacityManager Data Center

DirectorIT

Operations Director

ChiefTechnology

Officer

IT OperationsEngineer

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And in speaking with our customers, the challenges with datacenter power impacts stakeholders across many functions. For those joining us today, keep in mind that our solution can address the needs of various stakeholders. Requirements for each are a bit different (IT versus facilities). The presenter does not need to comment on all of them.

Introducing Nimsoft DCIM

› Extends Nimsoft IT Management As A Service to provide a unified view of power, cooling and infrastructure performance.

› As a new piece of


› As a new piece of Nimsoft Monitor, offers fast time to value, simplifies management, increases usability

› Built on industry leading CA technology

Source: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Datacenter Infrastructure Management (DCIM) 2011 Vendor Analysis, Katherine Broderick, IDC #232449, January 2012

What does Nimsoft DCIM deliver?

› Graphical representation of power usage effectiveness (PUE), DCiE, total IT load, total non IT load and many more key performance indicators.

› Real time alerting + performance monitoring for common device types (PDUs, CRAC, etc.)

› Insights into energy optimization within


› Insights into energy optimization within the data center

› Chargeback/Showback reporting for cost analysis

› Packaged as a single Nimsoft probe – easy to download and go!

CRAC CRAC

SNMPBACnetModbus

Nimsoft ecoMeter

Cloud

Database

User Experience

Application

DCIM

Nimsoft DCIM – the missing linkCalculation

Templates (PUE, DCiE, IT Load, etc.)


PDU PDU PDU

CRAC CRAC

Data Center

Generator

Generator

UPS

UPS

Database

Network

Nimsoft Service Desk

Server

Virtualization

Storage

Rack Rack

5 Best Practices for ensuring uptime with Nimsoft DCIM

1. Know your energy costs and identify power hogs

2. Keep IT "cool" and humidity low to reduce risk of failure

3. Reduce waste and over-provisioning

4. Harness alerts and real-time dashboards to fuel actionable insights

5. Deliver client or group-based reports on power usage


5. Deliver client or group-based reports on power usage and cost

Nimsoft ecoMeter


Dashboards and performance reporting


Real life success

• Selected CA ecoMeter to consolidate energy & power information

§ Selected CA ecoMeter to improve energy management within their data centers.

§ Monitor CRAC/CRAH units.

§ Immediate savings in Y1 and up to 40% reduction in cooling costs


information• Integrated ecoMeter with their Service Desk solution

§ Leverage CA ecoMeter to monitor energy efficiency and consumption

§ Chargeback based on power

§ Differentiator for provision of IT services

Thank you – any questions?

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