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1. A Customer Success
from the Experts in
Business-Critical ContinuityTM
.
Background
The Clark School of Engineering, situated on the rolling,
1,500-acre University of Maryland campus in College Park, Md.,
is one of the premier engineering schools in the U.S., with graduate
and undergraduate education programs ranked in or near the Top 20.
The Clark School garnered research awards of $171 million in the last
year. With emphasis in key areas such as energy, nanotechnology and
materials, bioengineering, robotics, communications and networking,
life cycle and reliability engineering, project management, intelligent
transportation systems and aerospace, the Clark School is leading the
way toward the next generations of engineering advances.
Results
Doubled cooling capacity and physical capacity of data center
Optimized server configuration and airflow for maximum efficiency
and IT availability
Improved Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) by 5.5 percent
A. James Clark School
of Engineering at the
University of Maryland
Comprised of more than 4,500 students
and nearly 200 faculty members, the
A. James Clark School of Engineering
at the University of Maryland’s College
Park campus consistently ranks among
the Top 20 engineering programs in the
United States. The school, which offers 13
graduate programs and 12 undergraduate
programs, also is home to one of the most
robust and thriving research programs in
the country.
Case Summary
Location: College Park, Maryland, USA
Products/Services:
Comprehensive Thermal Assessment with Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling
SmartAisleTM
technologies, including Liebert CRV Row-Based
Precision Cooling Solution with Liebert iCOM Controls and
remote monitoring facilitated by Liebert’s Virtual Ntegrity
Gateway (VNG)
Critical Need: Optimize an existing data center infrastructure
for efficiency, availability and space-utilization to promote
availability and accommodate future IT growth
2. The Situation
Managing a data center designed to support the needs
of more than 4,500 students and staff, the IT staff at
the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of
Engineering is charged with integrating the university’s
enterprise IT infrastructure with the school’s unique,
engineering-focused IT needs. The 25-year-old data center
also is used to provide redundant web service for university
websites and back-up services for several departmental
groups, making IT system availability critical to these
applications.
In recent years the data center had been tasked with
accommodating a number of resource-intensive IT
applications, including media streaming, advanced life-
cycle engineering and mobile Web. As these IT needs
increased, the college added servers for greater capacity.
“As new needs came, those needs were met in an
incremental way,” said Jim Zahniser, executive director of
information technology for the A. James Clark School of
Engineering. “We did not have a master plan for laying out
the data center; it just evolved over time. When we needed to
put up a new rack, we found a space and put up a new rack.”
By 2009, the college had begun to surpass the compute
capacity of its servers and had run out of space to expand,
making it difficult to accommodate growing computing
needs.
“We have a very diverse data center, backed primarily by Dell
IT equipment, with web servers, login servers, DNS, domain
controllers, file storage, backend networks, video recording
gear—every sort of server that the University has—and
the data center was close to physical capacity,” said Omar
Siddique, technology officer for the A. James Clark School
of Engineering. “We had run out of space to place another
physical rack. There were wires and cables everywhere, and it
had become nearly impossible to add or remove machines.”
The Solution
When the team realized they lacked the time or budget for a
costly facility build-out, they turned to experts from Emerson
Network Power for a data center assessment. To begin the
process, Emerson first conducted an advanced airflow and
cooling assessment that identified hot spots within the racks
that were adversely impacting IT availability.
The assessment also uncovered a number of additional
design considerations that would enable the school
to increase efficiency and availability. These actions
included isolating the room above the ceiling and below
the floor, installing block-out panels in partially full racks,
repositioning perforated floor tiles into the cold aisle,
removing obstructions from beneath the raised floor space
and streamlining the cabling of IT equipment for increased
airflow and easier maintenance.
“The assessments provided us with detailed modeling that
showed us exactly where the hot and cold air were flowing
in the room, essentially enabling us to capture the potential
efficiencies we weren’t taking advantage of,” Siddique said.
“We reorganized our IT equipment to increase the efficiency
of our data center, and at the same time consolidated
equipment to make the best use of our space and our new
cooling capacity.”
Based on data uncovered by the thermal assessment,
Emerson recommended a higher density configuration of
the existing Dell equipment. This would enable the school
to free up substantial space for future growth—enough to
accommodate up to six additional racks of IT equipment—
and to optimize for capacity, cost and availability.
“Emerson Network Power was able to help the
University of Maryland achieve Efficiency Without
Compromise in revamping a 25-year-old data center
into a modern infrastructure that is very efficient and
will meet our growing capacity needs for the future.”
Jim Zahniser, Executive Director of Information
Technology, A. James Clark School of Engineering at the
University of Maryland
3. The data center was reconfigured into a single row of
high-density server racks housing a total of 18.6 kW of IT
equipment in a hot-aisle/cold-aisle configuration. These
were supported by a new Liebert CRV row-based precision
cooling system with Liebert iCOM controls. The Liebert CRV
uses energy-efficient variable-speed fans and variable-speed
compressors, while Liebert iCOM controls continuously
match cooling and airflow to changing rack loads. The
Liebert CRV also provides cooling redundancy, in addition
to increasing the data center’s capacity, availability and
efficiency.
“Adding redundancy to our cooling infrastructure means
that our operations continue unaffected, even if there is a
hardware failure,” Siddique explained. “We previously did
not have any sort of redundancy and when there was an
HVAC issue, we essentially had to shut our servers down—
interrupting service and access to critical systems—or
damage them by running them out of spec with essentially
superheated air cooling them, putting our systems
at increased risk of catastrophic failure and extended
downtime.”
Because the Liebert CRV is row-based, cooling is delivered
closer to the heat load, increasing efficiency. The Liebert
CRV’s digital scroll compressor and variable-speed EC fans—
which consume up to 50 percent less power compared to
traditional perimeter cooling technologies—also provide
higher efficiency.
“Our department is very interested in power saving and
various green technologies,” Siddique said. “This is an
appealing way to advance both our tech and our green
credentials.”
Equipped with Liebert iCOM controls, the Liebert CRV also
gave the school’s IT staff the ability to leverage a solution
capable of precisely adapting to changing room and rack
conditions – granting a level of cooling agility and scalability
previously unseen. Sensors installed within the racks enable
cooling to be continuously scaled to rack loads.
“The University of Maryland chose the Liebert CRV because
of its efficiency, flexibility and adaptability,” Zahniser said.
“We never know when we are going to get a large research
grant to do something where we’re going to have to quickly
ramp-up what we need to do in our servers, and the Liebert
CRV allows us to dynamically and efficiently scale as-needed.”
The Liebert iCOM controls also provided the school’s IT
staff with enhanced visibility into the cooling infrastructure,
with the addition of remote monitoring capabilities made
possible by the Liebert Virtual Ntegrity Gateway (VNG).
“Historically we only had a single control point on our
cooling system that allowed us to just know when we hit
a threshold and sent out alerts that way,” Zahniser said.
“The Liebert CRV provides a great deal more in terms of
monitoring for the room, real-time reporting as well as
multiple points of input.
“The university is becoming a 24/7 operation, but we’re
not staffed to be here 24/7,” Zahniser continued. “The
automatic alerts and remote monitoring capabilities
available with the Liebert CRV’s intelligent controls enable
us to monitor the status of our data center 24/7 and
provide support without any dependencies on the local
infrastructure.“
“The Liebert CRV is a major leap forward from our
original cooling solution. It’s smaller, it’s quieter, it’s
much more energy efficient. It’s also easier for us to
work with. With the digital controls and web interface,
we’re able to monitor it without having to go inspect it
personally. Essentially it’s a huge leap forward in this
very basic but essential part of data center operations.”
Omar Siddique, Technology Officer, A. James Clark School
of Engineering at the University of Maryland