Data Center & IT Infrastructure
Optimization
Trends & Best Practices
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Trends & Best Practices
IT Organizations are Challenged by a Set of Operational
Issues
Challenges
Rising costs of systems and networking
operations
Explosion in volume of data and information
Difficulty in deploying new applications and
services
Security of your assets & your clients’
information
Costs &
Service
Delivery
“
Enterprises report that IT
operational overhead = up to 70%
of IT budget and growing . . .
information
Landslide of compliance requirements
Systems and applications need to be
available
Rising energy costs & rising energy demand
Power & thermal issues inhibit operations
Environmental compliance & governance
mandates
Business
Resiliency
& Security
Energy
Requirements
of IT budget and growing . . .
Project ‘Big Green’
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IBM to reallocate $1 billion
each year:
– To accelerate “green” technologies and services
– To offer a roadmap for clients to address the IT energy crisis while leveraging IBM hardware, software, services, research, and financing teams
– To create a global “green” team of almost 1,000 energy efficiency specialists from across IBM
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Re-affirming a long standing commitment at IBM:
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Re-affirming a long standing commitment at IBM:
– Energy conservation efforts from 1990 – 2005 have resulted in a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions and a quarter billion dollars of energy savings
– Annually invest $100M in infrastructure to support remanufacturing and recycling best practices
– Invest in data centers we own or manage for clients to double compute capacity by 2010
without increasing power consumption or carbon footprint saving 5 billion kilowatt hours per year . . . equals energy consumed by Paris –“the City of Lights”
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What “green” solutions can mean for clients:
– For the typical 25,000 square foot data center that spends $2.6 million in power annually, energy costs can be cut in half
Addressing Energy Challenges in Data Centers
Face similar issues to clients in supporting 8 million square feet of data center space
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Increasing computing demand
– Need to respond to new business growth
– Long lead times ranging from 12-18 months for major data center electrical and mechanical components to support IT growth
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Changing cost dynamics
– Latest generations of data processing equipment drive
Changing Cost Dynamics Increase in Electricity Prices
IBM Data Centers (2005-06)
14 18 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 P e rce n ta g e I n cr e a se
– Latest generations of data processing equipment drive increased power and cooling demands
– Increased use of blade servers driving higher power and cooling requirements
– Clients experiencing similar utility infrastructure constraints, facing multi-million dollar upgrades
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Aging data center infrastructure
– Building equipment reaching end of life
– Several sites converted from manufacturing to data centre
– Some locations unable to handle growth requirements due to physical constraints
IBM Data Centers
Comparison of Space to Energy Use
IBM’s Data Center
s
IT Infrastructure Energy Efficiency Strategy
Virtualization
Application Integration
State-of-the-Art
Consolidate many centers into fewer
Reduce infrastructure complexity
Improve facilities
Consolidate many servers into fewer on physical resource boundaries
Reduce system management complexity
Remove physical resource boundaries
Increased hardware utilization
Allocate less than physical boundary
Reduce software licensing
costs
Migrate many applications into fewer images
Simplify IT environment
Reduction of operations resources
Improve application specific monitoring and tuning
Facility Infrastructure Energy Efficiency Strategy
Centralization Physical Consolidation Improved Operations Best Practices the-Art Improve facilities management Reduce staffing requirements Improve business resilience (manage fewer things better)
Improve operational costs
Reduce physical footprints
Conservation techniques
Infrastructure energy efficiency
Improved airflow management
Hot and cold aisles
IBM’s Data Center Energy Efficiency History
A decade of improvement
IBM Strategic Delivery Model
IBM Metrics
1997
Today
CIOs 128 1
Host data centers 155 7
T E C H N O L O G Y
Web hosting centers 80 5
Network 31 1
Applications 15,000 4,700
Global
Resources Strategic IGA
Location Strategic Web Location for IGA Ethernet & Power9 Networks T E C H N O L O G Y
Tactical and operational
efficiencies
Consolidation of infrastructure
Application consolidation/reduction
Global resource deployment
Five Areas for an Energy Efficient Data Center
● Mobile Measurement
Technology (MMT)
IBM Energy Management
● Data Centre Energy
Efficiency Assessment
Diagnose
Get the facts to understand your energy use and opportunities for
improvement
Build
Plan, build, and upgrade to energy
Manage &
Measure
Seize control with power
IBM Project
● Data Centre Upgrade Management Solution ● Distributed Systems Virtualization - Advanced Power Virtualization (APV) and VMWareefficient data centers
Cool
Virtualize
Implement virtualization and other innovative
technologies power management software
IBM Project
Big Green
Use innovative cooling solutions ● Scalable Modular Data Centre Upgrade ● Linux on z● Data Centre Stored
Cooling
● Rear Door Heat
Where does the energy go? The data center energy challenge affects both
the physical data center & the IT infrastructure.
% o f to ta l d a ta c e n te r e le c tr ic it y u s e
35 Cooling systems Electrical and building systems
Server and storage consolidation assessments
Data Center Energy Efficiency Assessment
30 25 20 15
Chart and data source: American Power Conversion Corporation (APC) white paper, Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers, #114, by Neil Rasmussen, 2006.
Power use % o f to ta l d a ta c e n te r e le c tr ic it y u s e Chiller/ cooling tower Information technology Switch/ gen Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) Power distribution unit Computer room air-conditioner Humidifier Optimize IT Infrastructure Energy Efficiency
Optimize Data Center Infrastructure Energy Efficiency
Active Energy Management
Lighting
Build - IBM’s Data Center Family
TM
Comprehensive Set of Custom and Standard Capabilities
Enterprise modular data center
●Turnkey data center for 500-2,500 sq ft ●Rapid deployment in 8-12 weeks
●20% less cost than traditional data centers ●15-30% improved energy efficiency
●Standardized design in 5K up to 20K sq feet ● Designed for high availability
● Leadership energy efficiency – 66% DCiE ● 25% faster deployment than custom approach Scalable modular data center Portable modular data center
data center ● 25% faster deployment than custom approach ● Open architecture involving leading vendors
●Fully functional data center; multi-vendor support ● Portable - temporary and remote data centers ● Rapidly deploy in 12-14 weeks
● Designed for high availability
● Leadership energy efficiency: 77% DCiE
●“Plug and play” infrastructure to support high density servers in existing data centers
● Non-disruptive implementation
● 35% lower cost than retrofitting existing data center High density
Tivoli Green Management
Facility
Infrastructure Assets Data Center
Infrastructure Assets
Measure and Manage
Seize control of every resource with energy management software
Trending consumption on individual or group level Establish baseline cost
Retrieve temperature and power information Better utilization of existing resources
Tivoli Green Management
(Monitor, Measure and Manage)
IT Assets
3rdParty Servers and Storage
Tivoli Software
IBM® Systems Director
Consolidation: four basic strategies
Chicago
London New York
Chicago
Centralization
Reducing the numberPhysical Consolidation
of data centers
Reducing older servers with fewer more powerful systems Windows ® NT® Servers UNIX® Servers Other Servers Windows ® NT® Servers UNIX® Servers Other Servers Billing System Server
Billing
Server
Order
Server
Web
Server
Order Server Web ServerData Integration
Centralizes data fromApplication Integration
different sources
Virtualization is central to data center transformation
Fragmented, inefficient islands
of computing
Efficient, dynamic and
responsive
of computing
responsive
What Can You Do?
The “payoff”
Support your company growth…
…with no increase in operational resources
Improve system performance & availability…
…with far less hardware
Reduce your power & cooling consumption…
…by 60% or more
Manage more servers…
…with a smaller staff
Enable application deployment…
…in days versus weeks or months
Free up money from operations…
…to fund IT projects that increase business
What happens when you virtualize?
However, new complexities can emerge
With the right tools, virtualized resources can be easier
to create, adjust, move, clone and checkpoint
Virtualization changes everything
Rapid growth of virtualized resources
Relationship of virtualized resources to underlying physical
Requires enhanced management framework
Reduce complexity with integration and service management
Deploy and manage virtual servers to control datacenter space
Manage energy helps meet “green” initiatives and cost objectives
Manage a mix of virtual and physical resources
Relationship of virtualized resources to underlying physical
infrastructure
Health monitoring and problem determination across a physical
Computing cloud - an emerging IT infrastructure
Delivers simplified services through innovative business models
INNOVATIVE BUSINESS MODELS
Clients and Customers
SIMPLIFIED SERVICES
• Cloud applicationsenable the simplification of complex services • New combinations of
services to form differentiating value propositions at lower costs in shorter time
Computing
Cloud
Network Cloud
• A high performance pool of virtualized computer resources of complex services • A cloud computing platform combines modular components on a service oriented architecture
Lessons Learned
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Plan for the long term knowing that your environment is
not homogeneous or static
– Significant data center changes take years (not months) to implement
– Plan modularity for unknown future requirements
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Leverage the base capability you have already paid for
– Tactical increases in power density
– Don’t underestimate the value of existing infrastructure
– Don’t underestimate the value of existing infrastructure
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Leverage new technology benefits in facilities and IT for
function and efficiency
– Examples of equipment installed
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Immediate opportunities exist to reduce data center
energy use
– Mobile Measurement Technology can show how to save 10% by simple actions
– Data Center Energy Efficiency Assessment allows you to do a before and after view
