how data center infrastructure management software improves planning and cuts operational costs
DESCRIPTION
Business executives are challenging their IT staffs to convert data centers from cost centers into producers of business value. Data centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by enabling the business to respond more quickly to market demands. This presentation demonstrates, through a series of examples, how data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software tools can simplify operational processes, cut costs, and speed up information delivery.TRANSCRIPT
How Data Center Infrastructure Management Software Improves Planning and Cuts Operational Costs
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Session Objectives
� Overview of DCIM� Challenges DCIM Addresses� How DCIM Works
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� How DCIM Works� Why It’s Important
Key Take Away
Do You Have The Right
Tools?
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Business Applications
IT Infrastructure
Overview Of DCIM
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Data Center / Facilities InfrastructurePower | Cooling | Racks | Security | Environment
IT InfrastructureServers | Storage | Networking
Challenges DCIM Addresses
Respond Faster to the Business
Maintain Availability Lower Costs
DC Consolidation
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Capacity Planning
Business
Need to dramatically simplify planning, designing, deploying & operating data centers
Cloud Computing
DC Consolidation
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
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My CIO said “There’s some white space – put the servers there!”
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!
Planning
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Common Planning Questions Answered By DCIM Tools
How does my trending look for
How will a new server impact the existing branch circuit? Where do I place my next server?
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How does my trending look for 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 ?
Provisioning New Systems
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Overlay server level CPU utilization data on the rack layout.
Color-coded bars show the avg. CPU utilization.
CPU Utilization – Individual Servers
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Server CPU %
Server tooltips include detailed utilizaton data.
CPU Utilization – Trending for Entire DC
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Operations
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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?
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One of my racks has an exceeded power capacity - what can I do?
data center?
What’s the overall health of my data center? IT & Facility
Managers
What do I have in my data center?
Auto Discover IT Assets
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Automatically discover network enabled data
center assets.
Discovered assets can be placed directly into the data
center model.
Provision Discovered Assets
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The model is populated based on the data retrieved during discovery.
Capacity & Alarms in One View
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●Highlighting entire rack where alarm is present
Alarm View
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Measure Real-Time Power●Real-time Power Consumption > Power Details Overlay
Real-time power consumption displayed as an overlay on floor and rack layout
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Lower Safety Margins Save Money
SafetyMargin
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Power &Cooling
IT Demand
Power &Cooling
Facilities Supply
Power &Cooling
IT Demand
Power &Cooling
Facilities Supply
Air Temperature & Velocity
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Why move a VM?
Not enough PROCESSOR
Not enough COMPUTE resources... There is physical infrastructure DANGER ...ORThe virtual machine manager
watches this sideDCIM
watches this side
Power Cooling
Reasons on both sides...
Communication Between Virtual & Physical Worlds
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● Not enough PROCESSOR
● Not enough MEMORY
● Not enough STORAGE
● Power outage – on battery, low battery
● Cooling trouble – failure of a cooling device
● Loss of redundancy in power or cooling
PowerCooling
Analytics
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Analytics
Common Analytical Questions Answered By DCIM Tools
How can I reduce my operational How do I know if our energy
What’s the cost of running my data center?
When will I need to build another data center?
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How can I reduce my operational expenses?
How do I know if our energyefficiency initiative succeeded?
When will my data center run out of power and cooling capacity?
CIO
Have we met our regulatory requirements?
Capacity Dashboard
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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
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Why It’s Important?
Automate Manual Processes � Reporting, inventory, moves/adds/changes, capacity planning, outage
impact analysis, energy measurementsRespond faster to business initiatives by as much as 50%
Financial Benefits� Improve OpEx and CapEx� Reduce costs by 10-30% annually � 3 -18 month ROI is typical
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� 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!
Key Take Away
Do you have the right tools
and processes?
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Resources
Classification of Data Center Management Software ToolsWhite Paper 104
Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Optimized Power, Cooling and Management Maximizes Benefits
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Cooling and Management Maximizes BenefitsWhite Paper 118
Power and Cooling Capacity Management For Data CentersWhite Paper 150
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Resources
Power Sizing CalculatorTradeOff Tool 1
Energy Allocation CalculatorTradeOff Tool 2
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TradeOff Tool 2
Energy Efficiency CalculatorTradeOff Tool 6
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