Make the right connections for maximum efficiency & availability

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Make the right connections for

maximum efficiency & availability

Sim Chia Wei

Schneider Electric ITB

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A Renaissance

● Goal: Solve the same problems at the

building level, independent of domain

●Efficiency

●Availability

●Performance

●Safety and Security

Building comfort White space Integrated BUILDING MANAGEMENT system

Moving Toward “Solution Excellence”

At Schneider Electric, we are At Schneider Electric, we are working HERE

working HERE

Domain excellence + collaboration

evolves toward “

evolves toward “solution excellence”

solution excellence”

● How: High-level dashboards, mashups,

metrics – easily understood by humans

●Energy management requires collaboration

between domains

●Collaboration opens new capabilities for building-level solutions

●Cannot “evolve backwards” – deep domain

expertise still required

Security

Power Process

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Data Centers Have Complex Management

Issues

Energy management Building Automation IT Infrastructure Management Lighting controls Video surveillance Security Servers Network

APC by Schneider Electric – December 2009

UPS UPS

Power Metering Data center power

distribution

Data center power & cooling capacity

management Computer room air conditioners Applications Access control Environmenta l Conditions SLA Measurement Storage Rack level surveillance Available space in racks

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Market Trends

● Power usage #1 issue for most large-company IT execs

over the next 2-4 years

● Physical infrastructure (power, cooling) costs will equal,

and then surpass, IT equipment costs

● Physical infrastructure is becoming more intelligent and

living on networks

● Existing NMS, EMS and BMS packages don’t address the

supporting physical infrastructure

Market conditions are perfect for introducing

management tools to effectively manage the

physical environment.

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Overarching Customer Challenges

Operations

• Delayed server deployment

• Downtime

• Multiple systems and log-ins

• High energy use and costs

Efficiencies

• High energy use and costs

• Oversized power and cooling

• Wasted man hours

Planning

• Stranded capacity

• Pressures to reduce capital and operating

expenses

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WHERE TO PUT WHERE TO PUT

NEW SERVER? NEW SERVER?

Single server

Insufficient rack space?

Insufficient data ports?

Insufficient power?

Insufficient cooling?

Circuit breaker trip?

Plug into existing power supply?

Reduced backup time UPS overloaded

Management challenge:

SYSTEM COMPLEXITY

Add a server:

More complex than it seems

Single server availability Servers overheat Reduced cooling redundancy Reduced power redundancy Service level agreements

Insufficient cooling? Reduced backup time

Availability of many servers

Software

Software is more effective than manual

is more effective than manual

methods for managing SYSTEM COMPLEXITY

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People

The business

Business processes

IT software platforms

Integrations Up & Down the Stack

Application Management

Layers of management

IT Room Physical Infrastructure Power | Cooling | Racks | Security | Environment

IT software platforms

OS | Apps | Security

IT hardware platforms

Servers | Storage | Networking

Building Infrastructure

HVAC | Lighting | Transport | Security | Fire

Network Management

Building Management

IT Room Management

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Data Centre Infrastructure Management

(DCIM)

Monitoring, Measuring and Alerting

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Centralised monitoring

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Customisable alerting

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Reporting and trending

Management and Control

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Automated management and control

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Fault-tolerant (fail-over)

Our market is defined as Products and Services focused on data

centre management, including:

Decision Support and Information

Management

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Asset management

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Inventory

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Planning

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Scenario Analysis, Master plans

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Change and Configuration management

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Execution of plans

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Capacity and Energy management

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Maximising capacity and energy optimisation

Software Services

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Installation, Commissioning, Educational, Entitlement etc.

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InfraStruxure Management Software

Value

● Highest quality service

● Maximum energy efficiency

● Streamlined day to day operations

● End-to-end visibility of all vendor equipment

● Detailed reports, trends and analysis

● Short- and long-term planning and budgeting

● Lowered capital and operating expenses

APC’s InfraStruxure Management Software allows you to

run your data center

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Single View of Data Center Environment

Green Management

Data Warehouse Energy cost modeling IT Assets Energy

Manager _{Additional ITM Agents}

Application Response Time Management IT Asset Lifecycle Management Business Service Management Energy Usage and Accounting IT Server Provisioning and Facility Design, Maintenance and Remediation Provisioning and Load Balancing IT Assets (Servers, storage) Building Systems (HVAC, power, lighting, security) Data Center Infrastructure

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Elements of Comprehensive Monitoring

Security & Environmental

•NetBotz •Pelco

Energy Management

Enterprise Management Systems

•Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) •Microsoft System Center Essentials

•IBM Tivoli

InfraStruXure Central

•Centralized & real-time monitoring

Data Center Physical Infrastructure Energy Management •PowerLogic IONE •PowerLogic Meters •Cisco Energywise •IBM Active Energy Manager

Building Management Systems

•Schneider TAC Product Line, including Andover Continuum, Vista •All major brands

•Centralized & real-time monitoring •Fault notification & graphical trending

•Thresholds & alarm settings •Auto-discovery •Mass configuration •Multi-vendor device support

InfraStruXure

Operations

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Elements of Comprehensive Operations

InfraStruXure Capacity •Capacity analysis & planning •Equipment InfraStruXure Energy Cost •Energy usage •Charge back InfraStruXure Energy Efficiency •PUE analytics •Subsystem analysis InfraStruXure Change •Automated workflow management •Scheduling of InfraStruXure Mobile •Real-time status and changes on-the-go Enterprise Management Systems

•BMC Remedy

•Others through InfraStruXure Central

InfraStruXure Operations

•Inventory management

•Real-time device failures shown in physical layout •Location-based drill-down •PUE calculator •Equipment placement analysis •Scheduling of changes the-go •Barcode scan

InfraStruXure

Central

Building Management Systems

•Schneider - TAC Vista & TAC Andover Continuum •Others through InfraStruXure Central

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Management Systems Product Offering

InfraStruXure Central Management NetBotz 420 Camera Pod Sensor Pod NetBotz 500 Sensor Pod Temp Sensor Fluid Sensor Environmental Manager Private or Public Network

UPS and PDU

Row & Room Cooling

Rack PDU Distribution_Panel Electronic Access Control

Battery Management

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●Multi-vendor monitoring

●Monitor any device on the network from any manufacturer

●Real-time device monitoring

●Immediate fault notification and real-time data for modelling, reporting and analysis

InfraStruxure Central 6.2

Strategic Positioning

●Auto-discovery

●Reduce the time needed to install & deploy physical infrastructure devices by

automatically detecting manageable devices on your network

●Intelligent alerting

●Minimise response time with pre-set or

customisable alerts so the right alert goes to the right person

●Copy and paste alerting preferences from one set of devices to another

●Centralised view

●Centralised data repository and unified view from anywhere on the network

●Mass configuration

●Create, save & push configurations & device settings to APC devices with a NMC

●Graphical trending analysis

●Access current, historic and future trends for any device or group of devices. Plot and graph multiple data points in a logical

correlation to visualise potential hazardous trends

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Snapshot Reports

(formerly named Summary Reports)

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Consolidated Reporting

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InfraStruxure Central: Future Trending

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InfraStruxure Central integration with Schneider’s TAC

Continuum building management system

InfraStruXure Central Modbus TCP Continuum CyberStation SNMP _192.9.2.253 192.9.2.220 InfraStruXure Central Client Switched PDU Smart-UPS with

Network Management Card

Continuum bCX1 Controller Public Ethernet IP Network With Fixed IP addresses 192.9.2.253 192.9.2.9 192.9.2.220

Communication with critical power and building infrastructure for holistic management of the data

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Power Management in InfraStruxure Central through

Schneider’s PowerLogic ION-E

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●Inventory management

●Shows device data within the physical layout for instant access to device details and asset attributes, and overview of data center operations

●Alarms within physical layout

●Provides real-time device failures within floor layout and rack front view for status of

InfraStruxure Operations 6.2

●PUE calculator

●Provides current Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) value for information on present utilization of energy.

●Mobile data center operations

●Integrates with InfraStruXure Mobile for rack status with real-time alarm notifications and data center operations

●Customizable view

●Provides location-based drill-down for a logical model of the data center, where data center rooms can be organized under countries, sites, buildings and rooms

status with real-time alarm notifications and instant access to sensor data.

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Network management

Graphical overview of the data center network paths and their interconnections.

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Blade servers

Mirror the exact data center setup, by modeling blades within their blade enclosures.

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Network Management

Patch Panel Mapping

Easy mapping of back to back connections between patch

panels.

editor supports incomplete

guidance for port selection.

Ease-of-use

Improved network route editor supports incomplete

routes and provides guidance for port selection.

Adding servers

When adding servers, the rack placement advisor

takes network port availability into account.

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Network Report

utilisation per rack split on patch panels, switches and connector

Network Overview

Quick overview of network port utilisation per rack split on patch

panels, switches and connector types.

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●Moved from Change Manager

application only to an InfraStruXure

InfraStruxure Mobile 6.2

Work online or offline to access work orders and asset data while

on the move in the data center.

(Previously: Mobile Data Center Assistant)

●Users can:

●View active alarms, alarm descriptions and

Operations application

Handheld, wireless bar-code scanner for InfraStruXure Operations application for creating changes on the go

●View active alarms, alarm descriptions and recommended actions

●View all physical infrastructure assets

●Balance power phases

●Carry out rack audit

●Based on Motorola (Symbol) MC70 hardware, includes cradle for charging and synchronization

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● Physical equipment planning

●Quickly locate the optimum spot for that next server based on physical

infrastructure needs.

●Virtualisation capabilities

●Integrations with VMware vSphere and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine

InfraStruxure Capacity 6.2

●Available capacity

●Understand available capacity by calculating actual space, power and cooling consumption, power and network port availability and floor and rack weight limits against data centre

architecture constraints.

●Business impact Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine

Manager

●Enables monitoring of the entire IT environment, including power, cooling, security, and environmental data from either VMware vSphere or Microsoft PRO Pack, and receive notice of physical infrastructure events and their impact on the IT infrastructure.

Planning and optimising utilisation of actual power, cooling and rack capacities via shared data centre model, enabling efficient

equipment provisioning and right-sizing of your data centre.

●Business impact

●Shows the consequence of device failure on rack-based equipment for instant identification of critical business application impacts

●Airflow analysis

●Simulate any cooling scenario in your data centre, instantly visualising the cooling effect on your infrastructure.

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Expanding integrations

InfraStruxure ™ Operations Management Pack

for VMware vSphere™

• Provides an automated response to physical infrastructure events, moving virtual machines from impacted host servers running on faulty infrastructure to constant healthy host servers for uninterrupted uptime and availability.

• From power or cooling failure to IT impact

• Problem:

•The impact of critical power events are not effectively propagated to Virtual

Machines (VMs)

• Solution:

•The critical events are translated into server impact analysis •VMs at risk are automatically migrated to healthy hosts

• APC Solution requirements

• InfraStruxure Operations & InfraStruxure Capacity v6.2

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VMware Monitoring software (ISX Central) ISX Operations VMware vMotion VMware vCenter web services = impact analyzer

Location + power path

Integration Overview

UPS a UPS b

Rack 1

Server

Virtual job Monitoring software detects anomalityMonitoring software detects anomalityUPS on batteryUPS on battery ISX Operations registers alarm and

calculates an impact analysis.

ISX Operations registers alarm and

calculates an impact analysis.

ISX Operations communicates with Virtual

Machine Manager through VMware vCenter

ISX Operations communicates with Virtual

Machine Manager through VMware vCenter

Based on the impact analysis from ISX

Operations, the relevant virtual jobs are

moved to healthy hosts.

Based on the impact analysis from ISX

Operations, the relevant virtual jobs are

moved to healthy hosts.

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Enterprise Management integration with

InfraStruxure Central

New: HP Operations Manager

Applications

Windows Applications Business Apps • Exchange Citrix • SharePoint Oracle • SQL SAP

•BizTalk Custom Line of Bus Apps Server OS •Windows •Linux •Unix Server Platforms •Dell •HP •IBM Network/Storage •F5 •Cisco • Brocade • EMC

APC Operations Manager Management Pack Physical Infrastructure •Power •Cooling •Security •Environment HP Operations Manager

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InfraStruxure Energy Efficiency 1.1

●Energy efficiency analysis

●Provides current and historical PUE values based on the current IT-load for a fact-based understanding of energy efficiency at the facility level.

●Subsystem energy losses

●Provides insight into energy losses and cost of energy at subsystem level,

●Multi-vendor data integration

●Enables integration with 3rd party enterprise and building management systems, such as TAC Vista, for data gathering and customization, and

integration of PUE calculations.

●Web-enabled interface

●Created for easy integration with 3rd party web cost of energy at subsystem level,

providing details of which subsystem draws the most costs.

●No measured data required

●Utilizes measured or modeled data, allowing for usage with few or no power meters.

●Created for easy integration with 3rd party web page through application programming interface (API).

●PUE report

●Provides a report on current and historical PUE values, showing the effect of changing seasons and suitable for both internal and external display.

●Easy deployment

●Greatly reduced installation time and costs through few or no power meters required for deployment. Intelligent PUE analytics at subsystem level

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InfraStruxure Energy Efficiency 1.1

● Power dependency editor

● A hierarchical break-down of the power flow from the power enters the

building down to the main PDU, providing an overview of the power path

through the building.

Full insight into current and historical energy efficiency for facilities, identifying efficiency losses and enabling improved PUE values at subsystem level.

through the building.

● _{Carbon footprint}

● Shows the CO

₂

footprint for each energy sub-system, for instant

measurement of impact on the environment.

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InfraStruxure Energy Efficiency’s web-enabled

interface

Provides current and historical PUE values based on the current IT-load for

a fact-based understanding of energy efficiency at the facility level

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DCIM tools optimized for

● Minimize

downtime

● Streamlined Data Center day to day operations

● Enable fast

decision-making

● Manage inventory for

highest availability

● Manage inventory for

highest availability

● Manage Inventory for

highest efficiency

● Provide detailed reports, trends and analysis

● Predictive simulation and modeling

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InfraStruxure Management Software

Service Offers

Implementing the InfraStruxure Management Software Solution

Software Installation

Installation and registration of your newly purchased APC Management product in accordance to manufacturer specification fulfilled by highly

Software Maintenance

Make sure your investment says current. Our software support services provide in depth technical support and software updates making sure your products stay current.

specification fulfilled by highly skilled field service engineers

Software Configuration

Ensuring most value for your new investment in an APC Management product by quickly and precisely configuring the system to suit your specific business needs while utilizing the full capabilities of the product.

Software Enhancement

Not all computing environments are the same. Customize our products by working directly with ours senior software engineers turning products into "solutions" within your new or existing computing environment.

Software Integration

Provide planning, design and project management for the integration of an APC Management product into your existing software

Software Education

Get the most from your investment by learning .operational skills and best practices. Our professional trainers will teach your staff on location.

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What Differentiates Us?

Informed Decisions…

… Decisions are based on actual measured data, unlike static inventory management tools that are based solely on nameplate data only

Dynamic Model…

… Combines graphical data centre room and rack views, physical asset management, a work order system, and a handheld mobile device for making changes on the go

Intelligent Modeling…

… Provides the customer with the optimal location for new data centre equipment and details the impact of planned changes

Software Built on Shared Knowledge…

… APC designs and manufactures physical infrastructure equipment so all software is built on the shared knowledge within the organisation

APC Certified Engineer…

… APC Certified Engineers have completed a rigorous training program and extensive testing process to ensure your solution is configured according to

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“Smart” management system

Management software & services

Broad expertise:

● _{Full suite of management software & services for monitoring and control}

Schneider Electric is the only company offering total

comprehensive management – building automation, IT floor, power

quality

● Ability today to integrate management platforms

● A vision for tomorrow for simplified, integrated management

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Key Takeaways

● _{Comprehensive DCIM Software}

Runs your data center like a business

Design, Monitoring and Operations tools in one integrated package

● _{Major new features in v6.2 release}

First and broadest integrations in industry

Extensive multi-vendor capabilities

Energy Efficiency solutions

Easy and inexpensive to deploy

Software modules

Low-cost ‘basic’ version