does data center wiring impact power usage effectiveness (pue)? (slideshare)

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Does Data Center Wiring Impact Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)?

Does the electricity usage reading on your data center

utility meter accurately reflect the power which is flowing to your network infrastructure

and related equipment?

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Are you trending near to what the Uptime Institute says is the industry average PUE level of

about 1.7? Are you even tracking PUE in

your facilities?



There are several factors which influence Power Usage Effectiveness and one of the primary ones is the

quality of the data center wiring which your facility is equipped with.

Getting all the wattage from the street to your building, and to the equipment within, takes modern, reliable wiring.



Here’s why you should care about PUE and how wiring

plays a pivotal role in attaining optimal PUE

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PUE is the ratio of Total Facility Energy compared to IT equipment

energy.For many companies, monthly

electricity costs don’t come out of their IT budget, they come out of the overall Operations or Facilities

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IT managers may not have visibility into their energy

consumption, relative to how much is being delivered to

their servers, cooling equipment, network hubs,

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To set the bar for efficient energy best practices, Google manages PUE

frequently. It rates power distribution as one of the five critical factors in optimizing PUE.

With effective wiring, cooling, and airflow, Google saves $30 per server

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The best data center wiring emits minimal heat, delivers the

most power to the target appliances, and isn’t connected to “comatose servers” which are

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Effective placement of Uninterruptible Power Supply and

breaker panel units relative to wiring, and keeping wiring and

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If your data center facility was built in an older, repurposed building, ensuring the wiring can meet the necessary load demands of your technology infrastructure is key.



Though the investment of rewiring may seem costly at the outset of

building your data center, in the long term, the investment will pay for

itself a number of times over.



Here are some great data center wiring tips from TechRepublic:•Keep power and Cat5 cabling separate, as they may leach signal•Test cabling repeatedly with installation•Measure wiring twice and cut once while installing it. Having too much or too little wiring for the space needed is wasteful•Plan wire routing carefully



Your data center can have high-performance utility providers, yet if your power wiring doesn’t have enough throughput capacity to

deliver it where needed, you will be wasting a great deal of capacity

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Also investigate the efficiency of the transformers and/or Power Delivery Units (PDUs) which are installed in or around

your facility. You might upgrade your data center

wiring, but still not achieve the data center PUE goals you establish for your company

if transformers or PDUs aren’t efficient.

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Have you been testing your data center wiring quality to ensure the

ideal PUE? What steps have you taken based on

the results you’ve seen?



Tell us about it in the Comments section.



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