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Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency

This document discusses revolutionizing data center efficiency through the McKinsey report and Uptime Institute initiatives. It proposes doubling data center efficiency by 2012 through measures like killing unused servers, virtualizing applications, improving hardware efficiency, and optimizing facility operations. Implementing these "CADE/Energy Czar" initiatives over four years could save $144 million in capital and operating expenses compared to current trends with lower server costs, energy usage, and carbon emissions. The Uptime Institute also outlines calculating and improving the Corporate Average Datacenter Efficiency metric to benchmark efficiency industry-wide.

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Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency

This document discusses revolutionizing data center efficiency through the McKinsey report and Uptime Institute initiatives. It proposes doubling data center efficiency by 2012 through measures like killing unused servers, virtualizing applications, improving hardware efficiency, and optimizing facility operations. Implementing these "CADE/Energy Czar" initiatives over four years could save $144 million in capital and operating expenses compared to current trends with lower server costs, energy usage, and carbon emissions. The Uptime Institute also outlines calculating and improving the Corporate Average Datacenter Efficiency metric to benchmark efficiency industry-wide.

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Revolutionizing Data Center

Efficiency (Update)
Presented by Kenneth G. Brill,
Executive Director, Uptime Institute
[email protected]

2008 Uptime Institute

Uptime Institute
Our Mission Is to Continuously Increase
Uptime and Global IT Productivity
Through
Benchmarking and Collaborative Learning

2008 Uptime Institute

McKinsey Report: Revolutionizing


Data Center Efficiency
Double data center efficiency by 2012 as
measured by CADE (Corporate Average
Datacenter Efficiency

2008 Uptime Institute

Four Year Financial Outcome


Current Trends vs. CADE/Energy Czar
2008 - 2012
No Chg
Czar
IT server CapEx expenditures
Site asset CapEx expenditures
4 Year IT + Site OpEx expenses
Total CapEx + OpEx
Four Year Savings

$31
112
54
$197

$20
0
33
$53
$144

All numbers in millions of dollars

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CADE/Energy Czar
IT Initiatives
Kill comatose servers
100% kill of accumulated comatose servers
Implement formal de-commissioning program
using ITIL to document, bill back, and audit

Virtualize
40% of applications
5 to 1 collapse

Buy 20% more energy efficient hardware


More efficient power supplies and better fans
Rightsize memory
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CADE/Energy Czar
Facilities Initiatives
12% improvement in site energy efficiency
Measure site infrastructure energy overhead
(Green Grid 1/DCiE or PUE if all forms of
energy are included over a 12 month period)
and correct any surprises
Correctly set cooling unit setpoints
Truly implement hot/cold aisle concepts
Eliminate humidification/de-humidification
Turn off unneeded cooling units
If available, increase waterside free-cooling
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Apps, Servers, IT and Utility kW, & CO2


Baseline and Fourth Year
Baseline
2012
Year
No Chg Czar
One App/One Server
Virtualized Apps
Active Applications

6,200
0
6,200

10,900
0
10,900

6,500
4,400
10,900

Comatose Servers

1,100

3,000

IT Plug Load kW
Utility Load kW

2,200
4,800

6,000
11,800

3,100
5,300

242*

130*

4 Year CO2 emissions

* Cumulative over 4 years in thousands of tons

2008 Uptime Institute

Corporate Average Datacenter Efficiency


(CADE)

CADE

IT
Efficiency

IT Asset
IT Energy
x
Utilization
Efficiency

Facility
Efficiency

Site Asset
Site Energy
x
Utilization
Efficiency

2008 Uptime Institute

Current Trends vs. CADE/Energy Czar


Baseline and Fourth Year
Baseline
2012
Year
No Chg Czar
IT asset utilization
IT energy efficiency
Site asset utilization
Site energy efficiency
CADE

9%
5%
55%
46%
11

8%
5%
75%
51%
15

15%
76%
77%
58%
500

Processing increase
Utility load (megawatts)

4.8

75%*
11.8

75%*
5.3

* Not including Moores Law increase from buying new equipment

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CADE ver 1.0 Servers Only


Baseline Year Calculations
IT Efficiency
IT asset utilization* (10% on active apps, 8.5%
overall due to comatose servers)
IT energy efficiency (assume 5% for base year)

Facility Efficiency
Site asset utilization* (55%)
Site energy efficiency** (46%) (use a 12 month
moving average)

CADE = 8.5% x5% x55% x46% x100 = 11

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* Asset utilization = IT Plug load/site asset capacity


** Same as The Green Grids DCiE if all forms of energy
in a running average over 12 months are included
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CADE ver 2.0


Include all product classes: servers,
mainframes, midrange, storage, tape,
network
IT energy efficiency factor will be further
elaborated
EPA EnergyStar products
Include saving from implementing power saver
option

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Site Costs per $2,500 Server (assumes low


cost location and Institute best practices)
Site Concurrent Maint./Fault Tolerance
Tier II
Tier III
Tier IV
CapEx per Server* $8,300 % $14,000 % $15,400 %
Site Costs (USA)

Annual Expense
Site Deprn
Electricity
Site Operations
Total per Server

550
420
350
$1,320

CO2 per server

4 tons

42
950 50 1,000
32
420 23
470
26
500 27
550
100 $1,870 100 $2,020
4 tons

44
33
23
100

4 tons

* 55% site asset utilization


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Additional Information
McKinsey: Revolutionizing Data Center
Efficiency
Uptime: Revolutionizing Data Center
Efficiency - Updated
Symposium 09
www.uptimeinstitute.org

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