A first step in your green agenda

Data center energy assessment services

Your Data Center is ripe with opportunities to scale back the energy it uses and reduce your capital expenditure. Power grid limitations, outdated Data Centers, the proliferation of volume servers, high density, and inefficient technologies and practices are all adding critical risks... and wasting energy. Together, Bull and Schneider Electric (with APC) have the solutions you need, and can carry out energy and thermal audits to advise you on the most effective improvements you can make.

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Assess your energy use, and save

ur approach involves assessing your Data Center energy efficiency in a holistic way, and developing an end-to-end strategic plan to reduce your energy bill while guaranteeing service quality and SLA commitments. Our IT Energy Audit involves evaluating you Data Center energy efficiency by comparing the total energy consumption for the center with that of the IT hardware on its own. Originally developed in 2003 by the LBN Lab in California, typically PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) ratios range from 3.5 to 1.5. For some years now, the overall ratio has been around 3, with total energy consumption for the Data Center divided almost equally between cooling, auxiliary and power supply infrastructures, and the IT hardware itself. It is estimated that we should be able to achieve a ratio of 2, or even 1.6 for highly optimized solutions.

PUE : Power Usage Effectiveness 3.4

3.0

To deliver 500W to a server, 1500W is needed from the power grid

2.0

Objective Achievable with proper design

1.6

1.0

100% Efficiency

The customer benefits

Cost savings through reduced energy bills Increasing Corporate Social Responsibility and image For local authorities and other public sector organizations, demonstrating an attitude that involves doing something to help the environment Effective contribution to reduce CO2 emissions Increase environmental awareness among all Data Center stakeholders Better understanding of energy usage patterns for data center components overall, and more effective forecasting of new demand for computing capacity Better ability to manage energy, and optimization of energy and production costs More efficient systems, prolonging the lifecycle of facilities and reducing the need for investment.

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Beyond the hype: a pressing need

Threats According to AFCOM in 2006, power failures and limits on power availability will interrupt data-center operations for 90% of all companies over the next five years.
Source : Intel Corp.

Waste In a typical server, 30%-40 % of the input power nearly half the power coming from the outlet never reaches the processor, memory, disks or any other computing components. Opportunities Measure, evaluate, plan and act to save money and reduce CO2: Measure your Data Center Power Usage Efficiency (Green grid PUE) Reduce energy waste in your Data Center infrastructure Reduce the number of your servers through virtualization Measure potential efficient technology upgrades Implement energy efficiency best practices for the Data Center. Green solutions Outstanding performance/watt servers and storage Virtualization and consolidation Efficient machine room architecture and Data Center infrastructures including cooling and power distribution Policy-based power management Sustain Service Level Agreements.

36.4%

CPU, Memory, Drives, I/O

63.4%

Cooling & power infrastructure

Data Center

Efficient
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Index
A A

PUE
1.8 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5

Non-efficient

Data Center

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How we carry out the Data Center audit

We deliver a step-by-step methodology to analyze the efficiency of your Data Center, to understand your current position and how to reap the benefits of energy efficiency: cutting your energy bill, and giving you more space and more control

Qualification meeting with the Data Center stakeholders and site visit, to understand Customer awareness and strategies towards green Data Centers Using a qualification questionnaire, identify the key areas of the energy assessment program Short- and long-term customer expectations and objectives Energy management policies Assess opportunities for quick wins.

Deliver a report detailing PUE profile The overall picture of Data Center power management Energy consumption profile analysis Gaps in practices and technology advances Potential levers and recommendations for improving PUE. Develop solutions and follow up performance Technology upgrades Virtualization and consolidation Power management solutions and processes Data Center infrastructure improvements (automatic control systems, heat, ventilation and air-conditioning controls...).

Carry out a Data Center diagnosis in order to Develop and measure the PUE (Power Usage Efficiency) metric Measure and develop energy efficiency profiles for Data Center elements (servers, storage, cooling, UPS) Identify critical and main energy consuming IT systems and infrastructure equipment Identify a gap between current practices and state-of-the-art best practices for the next generation of Data Center operations Identify potential energy saving opportunities and areas for cost optimization.

Solutions

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Cost saving assessment

Data Center IT assessment questionnaire
In order to assess potential savings, the first step is to carry out overall Data Center energy profiling and estimate energy use breakouts for the two major Data Center subsystems: IT hardware and Data Center auxiliaries (electric distribution, fans and cooling). The following questionnaires are used to qualify the scope of work.
Facilities and general information Has your company already carried out an energy efficiency audit? If so, what are the PUE/DCiE metrics? What does your company plan to do to improve your data center energy efficiency? Has your company documented all audit results and disseminated these results to management? Has your company already implemented virtualization or consolidation solutions with the aim of improving energy efficiency? Is your company a member of green IT initiatives or has it pledged to support green IT recommendation? Has your company implemented or does it operate any energy management systems? Has your company implemented policy-based energy management? If so, could you details these policies? Does your company own several Data Center facilities? If yes, how many should be covered by this audit? Does your company have an up-to-date system inventory? Please specific the number of IT hardware items in each facility Number of servers Number of storage systems Number of network devices Identify the systems that do not apply to the Data center, if any Does your company operate a system management solution, and track and report system workload profiles for the Data Center servers overall? If your company does not report system workload profiles, would you be happy to include workload profile services in this audit? If yes, please specify the number of servers that have to be profiled. Has your company implemented a server working plan and power-off/power-on schedule? On which basis: weekly, daily, other Do some servers run in continuous mode? If so, how many? What back-up plan have you implemented? Do back-up servers run in continuous mode too?

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Breakdown of IT equipment by facility Servers For each facility, identify the number of servers for which energy profiles have to be measured Identify the number of server-related measurement points For each server, define its server class specification (CPU, memory, disk, network drivers) For each measured server provide its daily workload profile. If such information is not available, would you be happy to create such a profile within the scope of this audit? If any, identify the servers that do not need to be measured and for which energy profiles should be projected from the servers actually being measured Storage For each facility, identify the number of storage systems (server disk, tape bay) for which energy profiles have to be measured Network For each facility, specify the number of network devices For each facility, identify the number of power measurement points related to the network infrastructure

Data Center Cooling and power infrastructure assessment

Here are the questions you need to consider for the Data Center infrastructure assessment.
Questions

Age of your Data Center Total level of all annual energy consumption (GWh) Cost of energy as a proportion of your production costs Are there different elements to your electricity tariff (peak and off-peak hours?) Do you pay penalties to your provider (reactive penalties, exceeding power subscription limits...) Is your electrical consumption curve flat or nearly flat (constant power consumed) Are variable speed drives installed on the pumps and fans Does the process consume heat Do you have a cogeneration system Do you have a power measurement system on your site Have you carried out an energy audit on this site in the last five years Do you have any programs running on site to educate your people about energy savings Have you taken any energy-saving actions in the last five years Is there one person dedicated to monitoring energy consumption and its cost in your organization

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To contact us: Jean-Jacques Merlet +33 1 69 93 95 85

jean-jacques.merlet@bull.net

Some references
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council Bull TCL Virtualization delivers economies of scale > Data Center running out of space to roll out new applications > 90 unreliable physical servers were replaced by five high-availability servers > 73% savings in annual power costs > The organization has reduced expenditure on additional hardware, software and administration costs

London-based retailer With 500 retail units. One-day site visit to carry out an energy survey and identify energy-saving opportunities. Followed up by implementing the recommended strategies and created a report outlining payback. 131,000 investment - annual savings of 750,000 and increased its plant life expectancy through reduced loading.

Conforama IT infrastructure rationalization project As a result of virtualization (ESX Server) reduced from 67 servers to four > Reduced amount of space required (1/6) > Reduced connectivity: sharing of SAN and Network (number of ports divided by 2.5) > Reduced costs due to server power supply (1/3) > Reduced costs associated with server cooling (1/2.5) > Server utilization rate: 80% > Fast server provisioning with Virtual Machines.

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