Optimize Your Data Center

Gary Hill

VP, Business Development

DVL Group, Inc.

Data Center Age Profile

Gartner Group Survey

Legacy Data Centers Challenges

Under Powered - Room or Racks

Inadequate Air Delivery

Inadequate Monitoring Capabilities

Inefficient Cooling

Cabling Challenges

Budget

3

Choices in Handling Change

4

Build Cloud Colocation

The Best Choice May Be To Extend the Life of Your Existing Data Center

Extend the Life of the Data Center

5

FACT: Pressures on cost will increase

Step 1: Unlock hidden or stranded capacity

Assessments & Audits

Under-utilized servers

Virtualization

Decommission servers

Redeploy power & cooling

Step 2: Improve Measuring & Monitoring

Define, Measure, Analyze, Control

Step 3: Densify Your Data Center

Visualize the data center floor

Avocent Data Center Planner

– Inventory Mapping and Planning Tool for Physical Devices in Data Center

– Visualize infrastructure down to the rack

– Model current and future rack capacities

– Track equipment throughout its lifecycle

– Perform “what if scenarios”

Reduce time to provision equipment

Avocent Data Center Planner

– Less time required to plan equipment installs

– Optimize installation based on available space, power & air

Track Rack Capacity - Power, Cooling, Space

Avocent Data Center Planner

– Effectively Manage The Data Center as a System

Extending The Life of Your Data Center

Applications

• Capacity: 20kW • Racks: 3-6 • Key Applications: Small data centers; remote sites

Needs Addressed

• Integrated design • Standardization • Low 1st cost & operating cost • Availability • Speed of deployment

Intelligent, integrated infrastructure in a self contained line-up

Single line of racks

Complete and integrated data center infrastructure

3-6 racks (up to 20kW)

Integrated Cooling

Airflow Management

Fire Suppression

UPS

Power Distribution

Monitoring

SmartRowTM – Airflow Management

SmartRowTM Benefits

• Monitors temperature and controls precision cooling operating levels accordingly

• Monitors equipment for quicker response & resolution Control

• Can be deployed in just weeks: simple in design & deployment

• Local data center experts and service teams for configuration, installation, maintenance, repair

Interoperable

• Room neutral: No effect on existing space

• Reduce cost of installation: no need to undertake expensive upgrades to fire suppression, cooling capacity or flooring

Economical

• Significant energy savings from enclosed precision cooling system, variable capacity and intelligent controls

• Optimizes space efficiency through integrated system Efficient

SmartRowTM Design & Cost Example

Conventional Design 18 kW, 288 sq ft 1 rows, 6 racks Ceiling mounted ducted cooling (6) 5 kVA UPS Room renovation, fire suppression

Situation: deploy 18 kW of IT to a non-IT ready room

SmartRow 18 kW, 288 sq ft 1 row, 6 racks 1 Liebert Challenger 6 Liebert GXT 5 kVA Room neutral

Conventional SmartRow Cost Savings % Savings

Room Costs contractor, installation, engineering services

$60,000 $43,000 $17,000 28%

Infrastructure Equipment UPS, distribution, cooling, racks, fire suppression

$105,000 $109,000 -$4,000 -3%

Total CapEx $165,000 $152,000 $13,000 8%

Annual Energy Consumption power & cooling equipment energy use

$8,800 $6,400 $2,400 27%

5 Year OpEx $44,000 $32,000 $12,000 27%

5 Year TCO $209,000 $184,000 $25,000 12%

SmartRowTM Cost Comparison

Room Savings

Equipment Savings

Energy Savings

Room neutral, fewer services to retrofit room into an IT space

Pre-engineered, integrated precision cooling, ducting, distribution and fire suppression

Airflow management, variable capacity, intelligent controls

Applications

• Capacity: Most cost effective up to 400kW

• Floor: Raised, non-raised • Applications: Small and medium

data centers; high-density zones

Needs Addressed

• Efficiency: OPEX & CAPEX • Flexibility • Availability • Standardization • Interoperability

Intelligent, integrated infrastructure using row-based building blocks

Leveraging Avocent firmware expertise

Mission: Continue to Connect to Everything Regardless of Vendor

Digital Rack Interface Pod • Provides Digital KVM access

• Powered directly from server

• Backup power provided by

Universal Management Gateway

• Based on Avocent ASIC

technology

Universal Management Gateway

Trellis Universal Management Gateway

• Provides KVM and Serial Access

• Integrated or stand-alone

• Connects directly to Service Processors

• Supports Environmental Sensors

• Collects data from connected devices

and feeds data to the Trellis software

Trellis Platform 1.0 Facilities Capabilities

Site Management

• Alarm/event management and notifications

• Device operating status and data trends

• Environment and site conditions

Energy Management

• Data center efficiency metrics including PUE

• Energy consumption (kW/hours) and costs

• Sub-system efficiency losses

Power Systems Management

• Dependencies of the complete power system

• Power system resource utilization and capacity

• Active power path status

Cooling Systems Management

• Dependencies of the complete cooling system

• Cooling system resource utilization and capacity

• Cooling target zone management

Capabilities Will Be Bundled Into Value-Driven Offerings

EMERSON NETWORK POWER’S DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION OFFERINGS NOTIONAL OFFERINGS TO BE OFFERED

• Minimize energy

• Identify energy

inefficiencies

• Understand IT

services TCO

• Optimize resource

utilization

• Improve process

efficiency

• Centralize IT

equipment access

• Understand data

center asset

inventory

• Plan future IT

services

• Optimize IT

resource

deployment

• Model deployment

scenarios

• Reduce vendors

• Control / log IT

systems access

• Control physical

access to data

center

• Meet

government /

industry energy

efficiency

standards

• Predict outage risks

• Monitor facilities / IT

dependencies

• Automate impact

analyses

• Reduce MTTR

• Eliminate risk with

root cause

analyses

• Identify redundancy

gaps

Efficiency &

Cost Availability Capacity

Planning &

Agility Compliance

Customer Benefits

Simplify complex eco-system management

SmartAisle at the DVL Efficiency Lab

115 Sinclair Road Bristol, PA 19007

SmartAisle at Microsoft Technology Center

45 Liberty Blvd. Malvern, PA 19355

Key Takeaways

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1. Pressures on data centers will continue to accelerate.

2. Address your data center as a System.

3. Implement DCIM to make informed decisions

4. Improve efficiency across the entire operation

5. Evaluate SmartSolutions™

Questions ??

115 Sinclair Road

Bristol, PA 19007

www.dvlnet.com

(215) 785-5950