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
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Choices in Handling Change
Build
Cloud
Colocation
The Best Choice May Be To Extend the Life of Your Existing Data
Center
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Extend the Life of the Data Center
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:
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Densify Your Data Center
Visualize the data center floor
Avocent Data Center Planner
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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
Intelligent, integrated infrastructure in a self contained line-up
Needs Addressed
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Integrated design
Standardization
Low 1st cost & operating cost
Availability
Speed of deployment
Applications
• Capacity: 20kW
• Racks: 3-6
• Key Applications: Small data
centers; remote sites
 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
SmartRow – Airflow Management
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SmartRow Benefits
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Efficient
Economical
Interoperable
Control
• Significant energy savings from enclosed precision cooling
system, variable capacity and intelligent controls
• Optimizes space efficiency through integrated system
• Room neutral: No effect on existing space
• Reduce cost of installation: no need to undertake expensive
upgrades to fire suppression, cooling capacity or flooring
• Can be deployed in just weeks: simple in design &
deployment
• Local data center experts and service teams for configuration,
installation, maintenance, repair
• Monitors temperature and controls precision cooling
operating levels accordingly
• Monitors equipment for quicker response & resolution
SmartRow Design & Cost Example
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Situation: deploy 18 kW of IT to a non-IT ready room
Conventional Design
18 kW, 288 sq ft
1 rows, 6 racks
Ceiling mounted ducted cooling
(6) 5 kVA UPS
Room renovation, fire suppression
SmartRow
18 kW, 288 sq ft
1 row, 6 racks
1 Liebert Challenger
6 Liebert GXT 5 kVA
Room neutral
SmartRow Cost Comparison
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Conventional
SmartRow
Cost Savings
% Savings
$60,000
$43,000
$17,000
28%
$105,000
$109,000
-$4,000
-3%
$165,000
$152,000
$13,000
8%
$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%
Room Costs
contractor, installation, engineering services
Infrastructure Equipment
UPS, distribution, cooling, racks, fire suppression
Total CapEx
Annual Energy Consumption
power & cooling equipment energy use
Room Savings
Room neutral, fewer services to retrofit room
into an IT space
Equipment Savings
Pre-engineered, integrated precision cooling,
ducting, distribution and fire suppression
Energy Savings
Airflow management, variable capacity,
intelligent controls
Intelligent, integrated infrastructure using row-based building blocks
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
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Flexibility
Availability
Standardization
Interoperability
Mission: Continue to Connect to Everything
Regardless of Vendor
Leveraging Avocent firmware expertise
Trellis Universal Management Gateway
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
Digital Rack Interface Pod
• Provides Digital KVM access
• Powered directly from server
• Backup power provided by
Universal Management Gateway
• Based on Avocent ASIC
technology
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
Customer Benefits
Efficiency &
Cost
Availability
• Predict outage risks
• Monitor facilities / IT
dependencies
• Automate impact
analyses
• Reduce MTTR
• Eliminate risk with
root cause
analyses
• Identify redundancy
gaps
• Minimize energy
• Identify energy
inefficiencies
• Understand IT
services TCO
• Optimize resource
utilization
• Improve process
efficiency
• Centralize IT
equipment access
Capacity
Planning &
Agility
• Understand data
center asset
inventory
• Plan future IT
services
• Optimize IT
resource
deployment
• Model deployment
scenarios
• Reduce vendors
Simplify complex eco-system management
Compliance
• Control / log IT
systems access
• Control physical
access to data
center
• Meet
government /
industry energy
efficiency
standards
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
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™
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Bristol, PA 19007
www.dvlnet.com
(215) 785-5950