The Green Grid Energy Efficient, Environment Friendly Data Centers

IT data centers today Lots of servers Lots of cables/switches Lots of coolers/Aircos Lots of UPS/Battery packs Lots of floor space Lots of energy usage

Lots of servers

Lots of cables/switches

Lots of coolers/Aircos

Lots of UPS/Battery packs

Lots of floor space

Lots of energy usage

Critical questions asked when building data centers Where should we place it? India, China, Kampala, Amsterdam or San Francisco? What will it cost? How large will/can it be? Critical reasoning driven by “traditional IT mentality”

Where should we place it? India, China, Kampala, Amsterdam or San Francisco?

What will it cost?

How large will/can it be?

Critical reasoning driven by “traditional IT mentality”

Challenges faced by the IT Management Scalability: Be able to add new services as needed Expandability: Floor space for more racks, cabling, cooling, switches, UPS/battery packs etc Redundancy: Backup (hardware, software and extra staffing), cooling, Try achieving this with lower operational costs!!!

Scalability: Be able to add new services as needed

Expandability: Floor space for more racks, cabling, cooling, switches, UPS/battery packs etc

Redundancy: Backup (hardware, software and extra staffing), cooling,

Try achieving this with lower operational costs!!!

Data Center Today Power wastage

Power wastage

So what are we doing wrong in our data centers? Nothing actually*, but we ARE spending more money on energy than on our IT services.

Nothing actually*, but we ARE spending more money on energy than on our IT services.

Data Center Efficiency Intro PUE = Power Usage Effectiveness = (total power) / (IT equipment power) DCE = Data Center Efficiency = (IT equipment power) / (total power)

PUE = Power Usage Effectiveness = (total power) / (IT equipment power)

DCE = Data Center Efficiency = (IT equipment power) / (total power)

Our (environmental) goal To grow bigger without getting fatter! Use less hardware: Use blade servers, use servers with multiple sockets, multi-core processors Virtualization: Pack many virtual machines in a single server/desktop (both server and desktops), OS partioning, storage & network virtualization

To grow bigger without getting fatter!

Use less hardware: Use blade servers, use servers with multiple sockets, multi-core processors

Virtualization: Pack many virtual machines in a single server/desktop (both server and desktops), OS partioning, storage & network virtualization

Virtualization: what is it? This is what it is!

This is what it is!

How can Virtualization help? It helps you to add many virtual servers in one “physical” server You save investment costs (up to 70% in some cases: no need to buy servers as applications grow) You save on operational costs: energy, power, cooling, electricity bills, server support contracts etc You lay a foundation for an “fully automated, self managing” IT infrastructure

It helps you to add many virtual servers in one “physical” server

You save investment costs (up to 70% in some cases: no need to buy servers as applications grow)

You save on operational costs: energy, power, cooling, electricity bills, server support contracts etc

You lay a foundation for an “fully automated, self managing” IT infrastructure

Data Center: Before (virtualization) One-to-one ratio of function to device Support from multiple sources Inefficient utilization of hardware

One-to-one ratio of function to device

Support from multiple sources

Inefficient utilization of hardware

Data Center: After (virtual infrastructure) Pools of computing resources Standardize on preferred hardware Simplify operational support Decrease footprint of each solution Hardware support from preferred vendor Efficient utilization of hardware

Pools of computing resources

Standardize on preferred hardware

Simplify operational support

Decrease footprint of each solution

Hardware support from preferred vendor

Efficient utilization of hardware

Before/After… (an example from a “lean” IT department) 1,000 servers with DASD 200 racks 3000 network cables 400 power whips

1,000 servers with DASD

200 racks

3000 network cables

400 power whips

After… 50 servers with SAN and NAS 10 racks 300 network cables 20 power whips

50 servers with SAN and NAS

10 racks

300 network cables

20 power whips

Most data centers by 2010

Why should we go for “Green Grid” anyways? (Corporate & State) Environmental Responsibility : Ethical today, compliance tomorrow US and Europe will soon enforce regulatory compliances, but it won’t stop there… Green Grid organizations are eligible for Govt subsidies as they move on to demonstrate energy savings

(Corporate & State) Environmental Responsibility : Ethical today, compliance tomorrow

US and Europe will soon enforce regulatory compliances, but it won’t stop there…

Green Grid organizations are eligible for Govt subsidies as they move on to demonstrate energy savings

Lets compact the earth’s life in a film lasting one year! Humans have seriously altered the biosphere in the last 2 seconds!

Humans have seriously altered the biosphere in the last 2 seconds!

CO2 Emissions explode

We have protected our environment in the past…

And with virtualization we can do that again!

Questions? Presenter: Tarry Singh References: “Paths to a Green world” - Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne http://www.greengrid.org/ , www.vmware.com , www.amd.com , www.intel.com

Presenter: Tarry Singh

References: “Paths to a Green world” - Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne

http://www.greengrid.org/ , www.vmware.com , www.amd.com , www.intel.com