Lisa RiCharde asked:
Data center cooling requirements for high-heat density servers are driving power demand and taxing the normal data center operational procedures. The good news is there are solutions to this growing problem and IT managers are able to kill two birds with one stone. By fine-tuning data center energy architecture, corporations can reduce their energy consumption while achieving their green data center goals.
This white paper, by The Green Grid, provides guidelines to migrate existing, traditional energy consuming data centers into green, energy efficient data centers that deliver the required data center cooling. It presents how data center energy savings can be accomplished, sometimes by a 90% energy reduction, by making improvements from both an equipment-planning perspective and an operational-practices perspective.
This white paper’s guidelines include:
Engineering for Efficiency
Data center system design
Floor layout
Proper configuration of server software
Location of vented floor tiles
Right sized Physical Infrastructure components
Deploying Efficiency
Installing energy efficient power equipment
The trend towards closed-coupled cooling
Using virtualization to consolidate existing and future workload
Installing energy efficient lighting
Installing blanking panels in racks
Plumbing for rack level cooling
Development of new server replacement policies
Operating for Efficiency
Utilization of air conditioning economizer modes
Coordination of air conditioners
Organizing for Efficiency
Alignment of staff
Migration from a traditional energy consuming data center to a modern
energy efficient data center
Conclusion
Check list
Strategies can be used immediate or over time
Systematic changes can result in up to 90% reduction in data center electric
bill
To download the complete white paper, please visit: http://www.42u.com/energy-efficient-datacenter.htm.
Data center cooling requirements for high-heat density servers are driving power demand and taxing the normal data center operational procedures. The good news is there are solutions to this growing problem and IT managers are able to kill two birds with one stone. By fine-tuning data center energy architecture, corporations can reduce their energy consumption while achieving their green data center goals.
This white paper, by The Green Grid, provides guidelines to migrate existing, traditional energy consuming data centers into green, energy efficient data centers that deliver the required data center cooling. It presents how data center energy savings can be accomplished, sometimes by a 90% energy reduction, by making improvements from both an equipment-planning perspective and an operational-practices perspective.
This white paper’s guidelines include:
Engineering for Efficiency
Data center system design
Floor layout
Proper configuration of server software
Location of vented floor tiles
Right sized Physical Infrastructure components
Deploying Efficiency
Installing energy efficient power equipment
The trend towards closed-coupled cooling
Using virtualization to consolidate existing and future workload
Installing energy efficient lighting
Installing blanking panels in racks
Plumbing for rack level cooling
Development of new server replacement policies
Operating for Efficiency
Utilization of air conditioning economizer modes
Coordination of air conditioners
Organizing for Efficiency
Alignment of staff
Migration from a traditional energy consuming data center to a modern
energy efficient data center
Conclusion
Check list
Strategies can be used immediate or over time
Systematic changes can result in up to 90% reduction in data center electric
bill
To download the complete white paper, please visit: http://www.42u.com/energy-efficient-datacenter.htm.
