How Data Center Infrastructure Management Software Improves Planning and Cuts Operational Costs
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This document discusses how data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software can improve planning and reduce operational costs for data centers. It describes some of the key challenges DCIM addresses, such as faster response to business needs, higher availability, lower costs, and better capacity planning. It provides examples of how DCIM software can help with tasks like capacity planning, asset provisioning and monitoring, alarm handling, power and thermal monitoring, and analytics. The overall message is that DCIM gives organizations better control and visibility of their data center infrastructure.
How Data Center Infrastructure Management Software Improves Planning and Cuts Operational Costs
- 1. How Data Center Infrastructure Management Software Improves Planning and Cuts Operational Costs Schneider Electric Data Center Science Center White Paper 107 Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– FFeebbrruuaarryy 22001144
- 2. Session Objectives Overview of DCIM Challenges DCIM Addresses How DCIM Works Why It’s Important Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 3. Key Take Away Do You Have The Right Tools? Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 4. Overview Of DCIM Business Applications IT Infrastructure Servers | Storage | Networking Data Center / Facilities Infrastructure Power | Cooling | Racks | Security | Environment Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation Schneider –– February 2014
- 5. Challenges DCIM Addresses Respond Faster to the Business Maintain Availability Lower Costs DC Consolidation Capacity Planning Need to dramatically simplify planning, designing, deploying operating data centers Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation Schneider –– February 2014 Cloud Computing
- 6. Symptoms of Poor Data Center Operations I flew to London to put a Post-It note on a rack! It’s like the wild west! I use Excel (Access) to track what’s there I found some servers and I didn’t know where they came from or who installed them My CIO said “There’s some white space – put the servers there!” Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation Schneider –– February 2014 When I come in every morning, I can HEAR if everything is okay My hand at the back of the rack – THAT’s how I find hot spots I could fix this if we had a fire – a BAD fire!
- 7. Planning Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 8. Common Planning Questions Answered By DCIM Tools How will a new server impact the existing Where do I place my next server? branch circuit? How does my trending look for Schneider Electric –– Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014 server CPU utilization across the entire data center? Do I need to spread out my blade servers to get reliable operations? Does the existing power and cooling equipment have the capacity to accommodate new server technologies? IT Manager Do I have underutilized servers that could be consolidated ?
- 9. Provisioning New Systems Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 10. CPU Utilization – Individual Servers Overlay server level CPU utilization data on the rack layout. Color-coded bars show the avg. CPU utilization. Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014 Server CPU % Server tooltips include detailed utilizaton data.
- 11. CPU Utilization – Trending for Entire DC Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 12. Operations Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 13. Common Operational Questions Answered by DCIM Tools What projects are due tomorrow their current status? I lost a fan on my CRAC – what do I do now? How can I address hotspots in my data center? What’s my PUE? Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation Schneider –– February 2014 One of my racks has an exceeded power capacity - what can I do? What’s the overall health of my data center? IT Facility Managers What do I have in my data center?
- 14. Auto Discover IT Assets Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014 Automatically discover network enabled data center assets.
- 15. Provision Discovered Assets Discovered assets can be placed directly into the data center model. Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014 The model is populated based on the data retrieved during discovery.
- 16. Capacity Alarms in One View Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 17. Alarm View ●Highlighting entire rack where alarm is present Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 18. Measure Real-Time Power ●Real-time Power Consumption Power Details Overlay Real-time power consumption displayed as an overlay on floor and rack layout Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 19. Lower Safety Margins Save Money Safety Margin Power Cooling IT Demand Power Cooling Facilities Supply Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014 Power Cooling IT Demand Power Cooling Facilities Supply
- 20. Air Temperature Velocity Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 21. Communication Between Virtual Physical Worlds Why move a VM? Reasons on both sides... Not enough COMPUTE resources... There is physical infrastructure OR DANGER ... The virtual machine manager watches this side DCIM watches this side Power Cooling ● Not enough PROCESSOR ● Not enough MEMORY ● Not enough STORAGE Schneider Electric –– Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014 ● Power outage – on battery, low battery ● Cooling trouble – failure of a cooling device ● Loss of redundancy in power or cooling Cooling Power
- 22. Analytics Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 23. Common Analytical Questions Answered By DCIM Tools What’s the cost of running my data center? When will I need to build another data center? How can I reduce How do I know if our energy my operational Schneider Electric –– Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014 expenses? efficiency initiative succeeded? When will my data center run out of power and cooling capacity? CIO Have we met our regulatory requirements?
- 24. Capacity Dashboard Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 25. Control Energy Usage in Your Data Center “Energy use is a substantial cost of IT operations, in some cases exceeding the cost of the IT hardware itself!” Quote US Department of Energy, May 2007 Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 26. Why It’s Important? Financial Benefits Improve OpEx and CapEx Reduce costs by 10-30% annually 3 -18 month ROI is typical Automate Manual Processes Reporting, inventory, moves/adds/changes, capacity planning, outage impact analysis, energy measurements Respond faster to business initiatives by as much as 50% Dramatically improve productivity Improve Operational Intelligence Measure Data Center performance (Energy Efficiency, Resource Utilization, Process Efficiency) Link KPI’s to strategies actions that drive improvement Holistic view of Data Center for all roles Overall, DCIM helps you gain control of your infrastructure so that it doesn’t control your business! Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 27. Key Take Away Do you have the right tools and processes? Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 28. Resources Classification of Data Center Management Software Tools White Paper 104 Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Optimized Power, Cooling and Management Maximizes Benefits White Paper 118 Power and Cooling Capacity Management For Data Centers White Paper 150 Browse all White Papers whitepapers.apc.com Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014
- 29. Resources Power Sizing Calculator TradeOff Tool 1 Energy Allocation Calculator TradeOff Tool 2 Energy Efficiency Calculator TradeOff Tool 6 Browse all TradeOff Tools™ tools.apc.com Schneider Electric – Data Center Science Center WP 107 Presentation –– February 2014