Green Exam Flashcards
What is DCIM?
Data Center Infrastructure Monitoring
Statistics on ICT impacts - global, local, data center operations, PC devices, etc.
2011 US data centre energy bill
= $7.4 billion equivalent to 9.5 million households.
Statistics on ICT impacts
In 2011 the electricity consumption of all European data centres was equivalent to that of Portugal. By 2020 approx 25% of Europe’s electricity will be supplying I.T.
Statistics on ICT impacts
In 2012 $36 Billion was spent on powering and cooling the global installed server base.
Statistics on ICT impacts
Worldwide Energy consumption in data centres is growing at 12% CAGR.
Statistics on ICT impacts
A 1 MW data centre has a hydro-footprint of 66 million litres of water/annum
Statistic on ICT impacts
- 82.5% of data centre failures caused by power outages
- 48% of the major data centre problems are due to power
What is a primary function of any DCIM?
<strong>Data Center Management & Control</strong>
<ul>
<li>Advanced Asset Information</li>
<li>Granular energy analysis at CRAC, PDU, Rack and server level.</li>
<li>Detailed reporting – Dashboards should be capable of providing different views for different stakeholders.</li>
<li>Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) – Today’s data centres are prone to overheating, and CFD enables analysis of air flows to be made and for this analysis to show where hotspots are likely to occur. </li>
<li>2D and 3D data centre schematics –These schematics show floor plans and the 3-D architectural structure of the data centre. </li>
<li>Structured cabling management Information – many data centres, particularly those with raised floors, rapidly lose any structure to their cabling, as long cables are used where shorter ones would do, and any extra length is either looped or just pushed out of the way. Such lack of structure is not just messy, but it also impedes air flow.</li>
<li>Environmental sensor management.</li>
<li>Event management – A DCIM system in response to anomalous or threatening events such as excessive rack power demand can alarm the event and notify staff and possibly trigger a corrective response.</li>
</ul>
What are the components of a DCIM?
<ol> <li>Planning</li> <li>Design</li> <li>Operations</li> <li>Monitoring</li> <li>Predictive Analysis</li> </ol>
<ol>
<li>Planning: Translate business needs into requirements</li>
<li>Design: Design infrastructure to meet data centre requirements</li>
<li>Operations: Enforce standard procedures
and processes</li>
<li>Monitoring: Real-time and historic data
to alert management of potential failures or risks</li>
<li>Predictive Analysis: Analyse key performance indicators (KPI’s) and future trends</li>
</ol>
How can you assess/justify the commercial value of a DCIM?
Quocirca have devised a 4-part methodology that produces a Total Value Proposition (TVP), a concept for establishing a business case and value proposition.
<ul>
<li>Stakeholders/Users:</li>
<li>Organisation:</li>
<li>Competitive Advantage:</li>
<li>Return on Investment/ Scorecards</li>
</ul>
Uptime Institute Survey in 2012, interviewed senior management in several hundred data centres to ascertain the main motives behind their initiatives to install DCIM platforms.What were the biggest reasons in order of biggest?
1) Power, Cooling and Capacity Issues.
2) Data centre consolidation:
3) Provisioning for new data centres:
4) Technical and architectural changes:
5) Environment and sustainability agenda:
The Uptime Institute survey investigated the reasons and perceived obstacles by the data centre community for their reluctance to adopt DCIM systems. What was mentioned?
Too expensive Too difficult to integrate Too complex Difficult populating assets database Existing tools seen as sufficient
In 2012, the Data Centre Journal investigated a number of “failed” DCIM systems and found that there were five main reasons for the failures and gave the following recommendations to avoid them:
Lack of Planning
Misrepresentation by the Vendor
Ownership of the Process
Misconceptions of Upkeep Costs
What is the Data Center Maturity Model? (dcmm)
The Green Grid has developed the Data Centre Maturity Model (DCMM), which provides a road-map through incremental steps for improving energy efficiency and sustainability across all aspects of the data centre.DCIM tools are used in implementing and monitoring the various actions for each step.
Level 0: Minimal/No progress. Level 1: Partial Best Practice. Level 2: Best Practice. Level 3 & 4: Trending toward Visionary. Level 5: Visionary
There are three categories of real-time monitoring systems that have particular importance for DCIM platforms. They are:
Building Management System (BMS)
Network Management System (NMS)
Data Centre Monitoring System (DCMS)
DCIM tools and platforms available today(2013) can be classified into categories according to their level of maturity expressed in terms of their functionality.
Level 1 Basic: Basic monitoring mainly supplied with equipment. Some rudimentary asset and energy analysis with point tools.
Level 2 Reactive: Some degree of integration between environmental monitoring and control of cooling.
Level 3 Proactive: Extensive asset tracking and change management systems. More advanced monitoring systems can identify areas for greater power and space efficiencies.
Level 4 Optimising: Extensive range of integrated IT and infrastructure tools leading to enhanced service management, predictive server workload analysis and elementary real-time optimisation of the servers.
Level 5 Automated, Self Optimising: The DCIM system automatically adjusts in real-time the operation of the data centre according to rules, data loading and SLAs in order to maintain optimal performance.
Google processes more than how many betabytes per year?
24
How many hours of video is uploaded every second to youtube.
The 800 million users of YouTube upload over 1 hour of video per second.
How much electricity do Server Farms consume in the US?
In 2005, 1.5% of the U.S electricity was consumed by server farms and data centres. This amounted to $4.5 billion worth of electricity, or roughly 61 billion kW hours, the
equivalent of 5.8 million US households. In 2011, the total U.S data centre energy bill
was $7.4 Billion.
Some Data Center facts?
Data centre energy consumption worldwide has doubled since 2000. There are now 35
million servers worldwide.
How much electricity do datacenters use in Europe?
The electricity consumption in 2011 of all European data centres was equivalent
to that of Portugal and is expected to double by 2020.
What will be the carbon footprint of datacenters be in 2020?
By 2020, it is predicted that the Carbon footprint of the EU data centre
community will constitute 15-20% of Europe’s total CO2 emissions.
Discuss theThe Ponemon Institute study of 400 U.S data centres
The typical U.S data centre on average had 2 downtime events over a 2 year period
due mainly to power and cooling problems, and that the average cost to the centre
was $505,000 and the recovery time was 134 minutes.
62% of senior management believed such events only happened rarely [3].
Discuss the 2012 survey of 2000 data centres conducted by the Uptime Institute,
32% of data centre 2012 budgets are at least 10% greater than 2011. Data centres are still
spending despite the global recession.
30% of data centre facilities will run out of power, cooling and/or space in 2012. This has
been a recurrent trend.
Reducing data centre energy consumption is very important in 71% of data centres.
The top driver for pursuing energy efficiency is financial.
The average PUE (Power Utilisation Efficiency) metric, a measure of the efficient use in data
centres is 1.8 to 1.89. This implies that energy overheads are still very high, 90% relative to
the direct energy consumed. There is plenty of scope for energy reductions