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Planning & Optimising the Green IT Datacentre:
Design, Operation & Management Best Practices, Technologies & Challenges
Pierre Ketteridge, IP Performance Ltd
Green IT Business Transformation Seminar
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Yes! Of course…
…but only with careful planning, design and management!
Introduction
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• The direct carbon impact (ie Carbon Footprint) of Data Centres on the environment is almost exclusively related to power consumption
• Data Centres do not (when properly designed and managed) vent hot air or polluting gases into the atmosphere – cooling should be a ‘closed system’
• There may be indirect carbon impacts through staffing levels, travel to and from site, operational maintenace and housekeeping
Introduction
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PowerDistribution
ITComponents
Cooling 50%
40%
10%…Lighting accounts for 1-3%, dependent on whether LO operation is implemented or not
Introduction
15% of business power consumption is accounted for by Data Centres & ICT…
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Cooling falls into two categories:
• Air Cooling
• Liquid (water) Cooling
Cooling
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Air Cooling
The traditional way of cooling a Data Centre Computer Room:
• CRAC (Computer Room Air Conditioner)• Water Chiller• Cold Aisle/Hot Aisle Configuration
Cooling> Air Cooling
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Inherent limitations of CRAC-based Air Cooling Systems:
• CRAC capacity needs to be 30% greater than the actual demand• Limitations in cooling (5kW – 7kW per rack)• N+1 active equipment resilience/redundancy drives efficiency of cooling system down further
Cooling> Air Cooling
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Some Easy-to-Implement Air Cooling Optimisation Suggestions:
• Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle Arrangement• Cold Aisle Containment• Blanking Panels• Raised Floor Brush Strips• Underfloor, Inter- and Intra-rack Cable Management• Free Air Cooling
Cooling> Air Cooling
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Cooling> Air Cooling> Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle
• With no hot aisle/cold aisle arrangement, returning heated air mixes with the CRAC-cooled air and cooling to the DC CR equipment is impaired. There is also the issue of bypass cold airflow, which can impact chiller operation.
• With a hot aisle/cold aisle arrangement, chilled air is forced out into the front-of-cabinet facing cold aisles, across the equipment surface, and warm air is channeled out into the rear-of-cabinet facing hot aisle for return to the chiller/CRAC.
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Cooling> Air Cooling> Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle
• Ineffective positioning of CRACs impair the airflow around the DC CR.
• CRACs along the side walls are too close to the equipment racks, and will cause the airflow to bypass the floor vents in those cold aisles.
• Place cooling units at the end of the equipment rows, not mid-row.
• CRACs should be aligned with the hot aisles to prevent hot/cold aisle airflow crossover, which apart from increasing the temperature of air supply to the rack fronts but also can trigger the cooling unit to throttle back, reducing cooling overall.• Limit maximum cooling unit throw distance to 50'
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Separation of High-density Racks
Cooling> Air Cooling> Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle
• Air cooling systems become ineffective when high-density racks are co-located
• “Borrowing” of adjacent rack cooling capacity is not possible in this configuration
• An alternative (other than self-contained cooling) is to spread out high-density racks to maintain the cooling averages
• Obviously this is not always practical – witness the prevalance of blade server and virtualisation technologies – two to five times the per rack power draw of traditional servers
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Cooling> Air Cooling> Cold Aisle Containment
Cold Aisle Containment• Very simple to deploy / Retrofit
• Hot and cold aisles physically separated
• Greater watts per rack approx 10kW
• Over sizing of the CRAC is reduced
• CRAC efficiency is increased due to a higher delta T
• CRAC fan speed can be reduced which provides:
- Reduced running costs - Increased MTBF
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Cooling> Air Cooling> Blanking Panels
• Reduction and stabilization of equipment air-intake temperatures• Elimination or reduction of the number and severity of hotspots • Increased availability, performance, and reliability of IT equipment, especially in the top one-third of the equipment cabinet
• Elimination of exhaust air recirculation within the cabinet, optimising cooling and reducing energy consumption and OpEx• Deferral of CapEx (additional cooling capacity)• The potential of greening the data center by reducing its carbon footprint
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Raised Floor Brush Grommets
Cooling> Air Cooling> Raised Floor Brush Strips
• Self-sealing and interwoven closure system • Brush grommets can be installed as DC is commissioned, or retro-fitted • No changes to existing wiring configuration • Fits into the raised floor tiles prior to cabinet installation • Simple• Inexpensive
• Cable openings allow approx. 60% of conditioned air to escape • Use brush grommets to seal every cabling entry point • Increases static pressure in the under-floor plenum - ensures that the DC airflow remains at a pressure above atmospheric • Extend reach of Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle system
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Cable Management – Intra-rack, Inter-rack and underfloor
• Airflow within racks is also affected by unstructured cabling arrangements
• Deployment of high-density servers creates new problems in cable management
• Cut data cables and power cords to the correct length – use patch panels where appropriate
• Equipment power should be fed from rack-mounted PDUs
• Raised floor/subfloor plenum ducting carries other services apart from airflow:– Data cabling, power cabling, water pipes/fire detection & extinguishing systems
• Remove unnecessary or unused cabling - old cabling is often abandoned beneath the floor – particularly in high churn/turnover Co-Lo facilities
• Spread power cables out on the subfloor - under the cold aisle to minimize airflow restrictions
• Run subfloor data cabling trays at the stringer level in the hot aisle - or at an “upper level” in the cold aisle, to keep the lower space free to act as the cooling plenum
Cooling> Air Cooling> Cable Management
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What is Free Cooling?
Cooling> Air Cooling> Free Air Cooling
DC CRAC
Chiller Unit
Roof-Mounted Free Air Cooler
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Cooling> Air Cooling> Free Air Cooling
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Budgetary Example – Projected Cost of Running the System for a Year
Not using the Free Cooler• Chiller Capacity 150 kW• Energy needed to run the chiller 62 kW• Numbers of Hours running per year 8784• Cost per kWh £0.0784Total Cost of Running per Year £42,697.00
100% free cooling 70% of the year• Chiller capacity 150 kW• Energy needed to run the chiller 62 kW• Numbers of hours running per year 2580• Cost per kWh £0.0784• Cost of running the chiller £12,540.00• Cost of running Free Cooling (10.4kw) £ 5,058.00Total Cost of Running per Year £17,599.00
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Cooling> Air Cooling> Free Air Cooling
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• When going above 10kW per rack a new, more targeted/directed cooling method is required
• Most common methods is Water Cooling
Cooling> Liquid Cooling
High Density Data Centres and Liquid Cooling
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So What is Liquid – or Water – Cooling? Cooling> Liquid Cooling
• Delivery of chilled water to multiple heat exchange points from a central unit
• The central unit circulates water from the buildings existing chilled water loop
• Heat exchange units in rear doors (one per cabinet, capacity 30kW) or side doors (2 x dual cabinet resilience, 2 x 15kW)
• Heat is carried away in the water - air is ejected back out into the DC at the same temperature it entered the rack - zero thermal footprint
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Why Use Water Cooling?
Cooling> Liquid Cooling
• Water 3,500 times more thermally efficient than air
• Air cooling only delivers 5-7kW of cooling per rack (10kW with hot aisle/cold aisle arrangement)
• High Density DCs place increasing power and thermal control demands on the infrastructure
• Blade servers - up to 80 servers in a standard 42u cabinet – and anything from 80 to 800 virtual machines!
• Fully-loaded blade server rack can produce 25Kw of heat
• Water Cooling can deliver 30kW of cooling to a fully-loaded 42u rack
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Adding the benefits of Free Cooling, some CapEx/OpEx implications of Water Cooling:
• Water cooling has a slightly higher install cost (more terminations/ pipe work)…but greater kW per sq ft gives us…– 35-45% reduction in required real estate – 15-30% reduction lower in overall construction costs– 10-20% reduction on total annual fan power consumption– 12-14% reduction in power delivered to mechanical chilled
water plant
• For an average efficiency data centre, annual savings of £22,000 and £80,000 for small and large data centres respectively
• Significant when the design life of the data centre is 10 years
• Reduction in energy is a reduction in costs and also a reduction in your carbon footprint
Cooling> Liquid Cooling
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Active Equipment (Networking)
• Switches• Routers• Appliances
– Load balancers– Caching/Proxying – Bandwidth Management– Application Acceleration & Optimisation
Network Components
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Data Centre Switch Requirements
• Port density• Performance• Functionality• Feature set• Resilience/Redundancy• Security• Price• Power consumption/Heat output
Network Components> Ethernet LAN Switches
Feeds & Speeds
Capabilities
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Data Centre Switch Requirements
Network ComponentsNetwork Components> Ethernet LAN Switches
• High port density per chassis• Low power consumption
• Availability
• High performance• Low latency
Optimised for the environment
Optimised for the application
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Network ComponentsNetwork Components> Ethernet LAN Switches
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Ethernet Switch Power Consumption - A Comparative Example: 15,000 User Network
Network ComponentsNetwork Components> Ethernet LAN Switches
Solution ALU Configuration Cisco Configuration Delta Power Consumption Cisco/A-L
LAN edge 48 ports 216 x OS6850 216 x Catalyst 3750
LAN edge 24 ports 160 x OS6850 160 x Catalyst 3750
LAN aggregation 40 x OS9000 40 x Catalyst 4500 • LAN core 8 x OS9000 Chassis 8 x Catalyst 6500
Total 102 kW/h
54 kW/h
48kW/h
Across an installed network base of 15,000 ports, it was possible to save 102 kW/h, resulting in:
• Lower Power Consumption• Less Cooling Equipment• Smaller Batteries• Smaller Data Centers
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Routers
Network Components> WAN Routers
• Look at power consumption figures/thermal output• Deploy shared WAN architecture – MPLS, VPLS, IP VPNs• Investigate leveraging and integrating bandwidth optimisation and application acceleration technologies
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LAN/WAN Optimisation Appliances
Network Components> Appliances> Load Balancing
…an area where we can make a difference, in the way in which technologies are deployed to optimise LAN/WAN bandwidth usage and availability of back-end servers.
An excellent example would be application delivery, traffic management and web server load balancers:
• High Performance through acceleration techniques
• High Availability
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More LAN/WAN Optimisation Options…
DPI Bandwidth Management solutions:• Inspection, Classification, Policy Enforcement
and Reporting on all traffic:– Identification - application signature, TCP/UDP port,
protocol, source/destination IP addresses, URL– Classification – CoS/ToS (IP Prec/Diffserv
CodePoint/DSCP); user-defined QoS policy– Enforcement based on user-defined policy – Reporting – RT and long-term – extremely valuable
for SLAs/SLGs in DC environments
Network Components> Appliances> DPI Bandwidth Management
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LAN/WAN Optimisation Options (cont’d)
WAN optimisation and application acceleration:
• Usually deployed as a reverse proxy device
• Provides some form of bandwidth management
• Protocol optimisation – making LAN protocols more latency-tolerant
– eg. TCP handshake spoofing
• Object caching– Files, videos, web content, locally cached and served
• Byte caching– Repetitive traffic streams, hierarchically indexed and tagged (inline only)
• Compression– (inline only)
• Proxy support for common protocols
– HTTP, CIFS, SSL (HTTPS), FTP, MAPI, P2P, MMS, RTSP, QT, TCP-Tunnel, DNS etc
Network Components> Appliances> WAN Optimisation
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LAN/WAN Optimisation Options (cont’d)
WAN optimisation and application acceleration:• Reverse Proxy• Bandwidth Management• Protocol optimisation – for latency-intolerant
LAN protocols– eg. TCP handshake spoofing
• Object caching• Byte caching• Compression (inline only)• Proxy support for all/most common protocols
Network Components> Appliances> WAN Optimisation
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Managing the Data Centre Infrastructure
Infrastructure Management
“Lights Out” operation requires…• Little or no human intervention•Exceptions:
• Planned maintenance• Fault rectification/management (emergency maintenance/repair)• Physical installs/removals• Housekeeping (cable management, MAC)• Cleaning
• How are you going to control it? How are you going to manage it?
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Remote Control and Management
Infrastructure Management
• RDC, VNC – In Band Management
• Console Servers – Out of Band Management
• KVM switching (local/remote)
• KVM/IP switching & USB2 VM Remote Drive Mapping
• IPMI Service Processor OOB Management
• Intelligent Power Management (iPDUs)
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Infrastructure Management
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Intelligent Power Management
(iPDU)
Console Server Management
(Routers, Switches, Appliances)
VNC/RDC
KVM/KVM-over-IP(Servers, Blade Servers, Management PCs, Appliance Management Devices)
Service Processor Management
(Closed Loop InBand or Out-of-Band) –
IPMI, iLO, DRAC etcSMASH CLP
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Summary - Cooling
• Data Centre “Greening” is mainly down to managing power consumption
• Cooling is the biggest consumer of power (50%)• Optimise your air-cooled CRAC system:
– Cold Aisle/Hot Aisle arrangement– Cold Aisle containment– Blanking Panels– Raised floor/underfloor brush strips/grommets– Free air cooling system
Summary
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Summary
Summary – Cooling (Cont’d)
• If deploying high-density bladeservers/virtualisation, consider water-cooling (max kW/hr cooling rises from 5-10kW/hr to 30kW/hr)
• Targeted control• Even distribution of cooling• Full (42u) rack utilisation• Zero thermal footprint – design flexibility• Remember free air cooling reduces costs further• Real Estate savings
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Summary - Active Equipment (Networking)
Switches:• high port density, low power consumption, PSU disconnect/fanless
operation• Extrapolate power consumption over entire port count
Routers: • Modular architecture, high density, low power consumption• Make full use of available bandwidth
– Shared services: IP VPN, point-to-multipoint or meshed MPLS– Use/honour QoS marking– Deploy Bandwidth optimisation techniques
Summary
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Summary - Active Equipment (Networking) – Cont’d
Appliances:
• Load Balancing – Maximise performance, utilisation and availability of server resources
• DPI Bandwidth Management
• WAN Optimisation
Summary
Maximise performance,
utilisation and availability
of WAN resources
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Summary
Summary – Infrastructure Management
• Remote Infrastructure Control and Management enables “lights-out” operation
• Remote console management gives CLI access to network infrastructure – routers, switches, firewalls, other network optimisation appliances
• KVM-over-IP allows remote, distributed control of server and workstation systems
• Service Processor Management allows remote control and management of system processor and environmental monitors/controls
• Intelligent Power Management enables remote monitoring, control and management of PDUs, UPS and battery backup resources
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THANK YOU
Pierre Ketteridge, IP Performance Ltd
www.ip-performance.co.uk
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