3 ways to run your infrastructure on cleaner clouds

LDNdevops Jan 2013

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Who am I

• Chris Adams

• Working as a Product Manager at AMEE

• Background in devops/ruby mainly

• @mrchrisadams everywhere online

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http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2012/09/arctic-sea-ice-extent-settles-at-record-seasonal-minimum/

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How it affects you

https://twitter.com/shloky/status/262948315119886336/photo/1

See the red circle? That’s Sandy flooding your servers

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How it affects Joel

https://twitter.com/spolsky/statuses/263288111692382208

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I do ops, what can I do?

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Ouch.

“Data centers are power-hungry, and Facebook's Oregon center in Crook County is no exception, using 28MW. While that's fairly standard, it has doubled the power use of the county...The entirety of Crook County uses just under 30MW...[Data Center Knowledge via SlashDot; Image: Tom Raftery]”

Jan 31, 2012 via Gizmodo

http://gizmodo.com/5880804/facebooks-oregon-data-center-uses-as-much-power-as-the-entire-county

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DCD Industry Census 2011: Market Growth

MARKET GROWTH

59%

Russia

About the sample?

» Sample size operates almost 100,000 FACILITIES – projected increase of 7% into 2012

» Sample operates 7.7 MILLION RACKS – projected increase of 15% into 2012

» Sample consumes 31 GW OF ENERGY – projected increase of 19% into 2012 (where 1 GW is

power used by 750,000 to 1 million homes)

» 2010-11 investment about US$30 BN – expected to rise to US$35 BN in next 12 months (i.e.

equivalent to nominal GDP of Kenya, Costa Rica or Lithuania)

Growth in the data center sector is common to

all markets covered by the Census, although

the extent of growth varies according to the

urgency of the market’s IT requirements, already

established facility base and the capability of its

resource base to fund, develop and maintain

new facilities.

‘Growth’ in the context of data center markets

can take a number of forms to meet increased

IT demand:

» The construction of new facilities.

» The extension or upgrading of existing

facilities to cope with increased IT demand.

» Increased use of outsourcing.

This map overlays census data on data center investment 2011-2012 with GDP data from the World Bank

Key

z Growth GDP 4% Investment 2011-12

z Growth GDP 2.5%

- 4%

z Growth GDP <2.5%

(% growth in GDP 2011-12

Source: World Bank and

central banks)

50%

Central USA23%

West USA

23%

East USA

19%

Colombia

11%

Mexico

74%

Turkey

35%

Italy

31%

Nordics

26%

Argentina

47%

MENA

44%

China

43%

India

43%

Brazil

59%

Russia

54%

Australia

118%

SE Asia

25%

UK26%

Germany

8%

Canada

16%

Benelux

10%

France

9%

Spain

26%

Argentina

50+

0

© DatacenterDynamics, London 2011.

http://www.dcd-intelligence.com/Industry-Census/Data-centre-Market-Growth-2011-2012

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© 2006 Bruno & Lígia RodriguesSunday, 20 January 13

Dirty cloud:

High CO2

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Clean cloud:

Low/no Co2

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How to measure it

•CO2 / Kwh

•CO2 / compute hour

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PUE?

•efficient != green

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PUE?Data Centre Supply Carbon Intensity PUE IT Carbon Intensity

Typical 0.5kg CO2/kWh 1.5 0.75kg CO2/kWh

Good PUE mostly coal-fired power 0.8kg CO2/kWh 1.2 0.96kg CO2/kWh

Poor PUE but mostly renewables 0.2kg CO2/kWh 3.0 0.6kg CO2/kWh

http://www.romonet.com/blog/coal-fired-clouds

In US - most Cloud Dc’s are coal powered as it is lowest cost elecDC with good PUE run on coal-fired power emits 50% more CO2/kWh than DC with poor PUE run on mostly renewablesElec supply is more impt than PUE is assessing how Green a DC isThere is a CUE metric but is poorly adopted atm

http://www.slideshare.net/TomRaftery/open-source-cloud-platforms-cloudstack-collab - slide 18

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CO2 / compute hour

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Electricity sourceEmissions factor

HardwareStandard power

consumption

Data centrePower Usage

Effectiveness (PUE)

Physical building and layoutOccupancy levelExternal temperature & humidity

http://www.slideshare.net/francinebennett/strata-london-slide-deck-14558889

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What if I did want to switch?

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•switch region

•switch supplier

•offset

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Dashboard

http://,mastodonc.com/dashboard

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Switch region

• If AWS, switch from us-east (coal) to us-west (hydro). Same toys, same price, 66% CO2 saving

• If on Rackspace, a switch to London gives certified green power

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Switch supplier

• How well are you already doing?

• Do you need API compatibiilty?

• Are you really scaling up and down that much?

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Source: Defra via Amee

http://www.slideshare.net/francinebennett/strata-london-slide-deck-14558889

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RARR MY INFRA RUNS ON MAGMA

• EC2 compatible providers - Greenqloud

cc michi_s - http://www.flickr.com/photos/32864130@N08/4542203306/

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greenqloud

http://greenqloud.com/trulygreen/

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Other providers

• France - Full of nukes (low CO2/kwH)

• Germany - full of solar

• Swiss - Full of extremely organised and punctual people

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In the UK?

Infinity Martlesham

Super efficient (PUE 1.2) DCRuns on biofuelHAS ITS OWN FARM2ms ping from London

The bulk of the electricity produced from the biomass plant is utilised for IT, not cooling

http://infinitysdc.net/locations/martlesham/

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Offset

• (Or choose supplier that offset their power)

• Least attractive option, but better than nothing.

• Good example would be Memset in UK, but others exist

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Interested?

• http://cleanweb.org.uk

• @cleanwebuk / #cleanweb

• ##cleanweb on freenode

• Cleanweb UK on meetup.com

• That guy down there

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Thanks!

• @mrchrisadams

• http://cleanweb.org.uk

• http:// chrisadams.me.uk

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Credits• Various slides and content borrowed from:

• Francine Bennet, MastodonC

• http://www.slideshare.net/francinebennett/strata-london-slide-deck-14558889

• Andy Piper, VMware

• http://www.slideshare.net/andypiper/making-a-cleaner-cloud

• Tom Raftery, Greenmonk

• http://www.slideshare.net/TomRaftery/open-source-cloud-platforms-cloudstack-collab

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