EAUCImproved Sustainability Across Estates Through The Use of ICT

Greening Leeds Met Estate

Roland Cross Technology Project Consultant, Leeds Metropolitan University

Data Centre Efficiency

• 9 month project• Funded by Joint Information Systems Committee

(JISC)• Sponsored and led by IT Director• Mixed project team – Professor of Mobile & Converging Technologies– Senior Infrastructure Consultant– Engineering Systems Engineer– Technology Project Consultant

What is Data centre Efficiency?

Survey

Data Centre Power Metering

Before

After

Power Metering Employed

EGX300 – acts as web server for metering information Power Meter Series 700

What are we going to measure?

Changes to Power Usage Effectiveness caused by:

• Data centre temperature rises

• Virtualisation

• Installation of ‘hot aisle – cold aisle’ regime

Questions?