critical systems monitoring

Critical Systems Monitoring: Innovative Strategies for Effective

Infrastructure Management

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Thom: Hello, everyone and welcome to our Emerson Network Power 2010 Business Innovators Series: “Critical Systems Monitoring: Innovative Strategies for Effective Infrastructure Management.” I’m Thom Gall, and I’ll be your host. As you know, our Web cast program is certified by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training. So attending a 1-hour Web cast qualifies you to earn one-tenth of a CEU training credit. Just check the box in your survey following the Web cast, and you’ll receive your certificate by mail within 2-3 weeks. Today, we’ll examine strategies for gaining enhanced visibility into your data center infrastructure to improve performance, efficiency and availability. This presentation deck will be available to download after the Web cast – check the link in your thank-you e-mail. I’ll give a brief introduction of Emerson Network Power and its Liebert products and services, then we will move on to our presenter.

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Emerson Network Power: The global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity

Emerson Technologies

Uninterruptible Power Power Distribution Surge Protection Transfer Switching DC Power Precision Cooling High Density Cooling Racks Rack Monitoring Sensors and Controls KVM Real-Time Monitoring Data Center Software

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Emerson Network Power is an Emerson business and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity. That means they provide the technology that powers and protects the critical systems business depends on, like servers and communications equipment. Through its Liebert AC power, precision cooling and monitoring products and services, Emerson Network Power delivers *Efficiency Without Compromise* by helping customers to optimize their data center infrastructures so as to reduce costs and deliver high availability.


Emerson Network Power –An organization with established customers

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Through their solutions and their service organization, Emerson Network Power helps every company in the Fortune 500 keep its systems running. Here is just a sampling of some of the recognizable organizations that rely on Emerson Network Power to keep their business in business. Emerson Network Power has customers in virtually every industry, including telecommunications, computing, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, web-hosting, and banking and finance.

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• Emerson Network Power overview• “Improving Availability, Capacity Management and Energy

Efficiency Through Integrated Monitoring and Management,” Matt Zieg, Manager, Product Marketing, Liebert Monitoring , Emerson Network Power

• Question and Answer session

Presentation topics

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Now a little bit about how our Web cast will run. In just a minute, I’ll introduce Matt Zieg, who will discuss opportunities to improve availability, capacity management and energy efficiency through integrated monitoring. You can ask questions through the console throughout the Web cast, and we’ll select several to be answered by Matt during our closing Q&A. To ask a question, click the questions tab on the bottom of your screen. Type your question in the box along with your company name and submit it.

Matt ZiegManager, Product MarketingLiebert MonitoringEmerson Network Power


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Thom: Joining us today is Matt Zieg, Director of Product Marketing for the Liebert Monitoring business of Emerson Network Power. Matt leads product management efforts to help data center and IT managers centralize their monitoring efforts to assure maximum visibility and availability of critical operations. Welcome, Matt. Matt: Thanks for having me, Thom. (ad lib) Thom: Matt, Matt: Thanks Thom… (begin presentation)

Agenda

• The growing importance of monitoring and management• Improving availability by increasing MTBF and decreasing

MTTR• Enabling effective capacity management• Enhancing efficiency to reduce costs

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…going to help reduce overall cost.


Top data center issues

Source: Data Center Users’ Group

Spring 2010

ranking

Spring 2009

ranking

Spring 2008

ranking

Spring 2007

ranking

Spring 2006

rankingAdequate monitoring / data center management capabilities

1 3 4 6 4

Heat density (cooling) 2 1 1 1 1

Availability (uptime) 3 4 3 4 5

Energy efficiency 4 2 5 3 7

Power density 5 5 2 2 3

Space 6 6 6 5 2

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…within my critical infrastructure.


Today’s data center

• Businesses use IT as a source of competitive advantage

• IT demand outpacing supply• High density zones of 10 kW or

more per rack• “Right sized” spaces• Higher turns of technology• Need for higher IT utilization leading to virtualization and cloud

computing initiatives• Higher consideration for efficiency• Pressure to react to business and IT needs while maintaining

availability

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…help you get tighter management and control of it.


External forces changing the

business climate

Regulatory

Economic

Competitive

Geographic

New technologies: virtualization, cloud

Efficiency andgreen initiatives

Higher end-user demand

Convergence

Higher densities

Reduced costs and staff

Interdependent applications and functions

Consolidation

Pressures driving the need for improvedplanning and decision-making

Business and technology forces pressing on the

data center

Business and technology forces pressing on the

data center

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…difficult to juggle, as I’m sure you’re all aware.


What is infrastructure management?

An integrated set of tools, products and services that help data center managers manage change and complexity while controlling cost and

optimizing performance.

CriticalInfrastructure

Sensors

Data acquisition, trending,and alarm management

ITInfrastructure

Assessment Services Remote Management

System management,planning, process

Communication and Sensor

Devices

Data Center Infrastructure

Monitoring Software

ManagementSoftware

Data Center Services

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….because every data center is gonna be unique.


Data collection is critical to infrastructure management

• UPS • Battery system• Cooling • Leak detection • Backup generator • Surge protection• Switchgear • Pumps and chillers• Power distribution / branch

circuit

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… in real time, how my data center is performing.


Assessments provide a baseline andidentify areas for improvement

• Identifies site-specific requirements• Identifies unwanted hot spots which

degrade equipment and data• Reduces operating costs and the

likelihood of equipment failure and downtime

• Facilitates data center capacity planning

• Provides actionable information

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… necessary task to get real control of your data center.


Before:

After:

High-DensityZone

Under-floorPartition

Assessment case study

• Computer networking organization• Data center

– 9,300 sq. ft.– More than 3 MVA power– Mixed-use building

• 73% space savings– Added new high density cooling

zone– Added variable speed fans in air

handlers• 18% energy savings

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… we’ll talk more about that in a little bit here.


Improving Availability by Increasing Mean Time Between Failure and

Decreasing Mean Time To Repair

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… help improve availability of our data center.


Proactive monitoring

TimeUp Down DownUp

React! Repair

TimeUp Down DownUp

Proactive Action Planned Repair

React! Repair

Break-fix, non-performance-based monitoring

Decreasing mean time to repair and increasing mean time between failure

Performance Degradation and Repair

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… what we’d like to get to, is an always-on data center.


Generator Operation

UPS System

Power Distribution

Alarm and event management

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… contribute to the infrastructure management message.

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Trending to protect availability

• Detect changes in systems performance

• Data on pre-alarm conditions help identify the cause of the problem, not just the symptom

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… to see how your data center is performing over time.


• Reduce hot spots• Branch circuit protection• Staff efficiency• Proactive vs. reactive• Failure prediction• Planned work vs. rapid

response• All resulting in: increased uptime

Monitoring to document ROI and increase uptime

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…direct impact on your organization’s profitability.


Langan Engineering and Environmental Services

• Environmental engineering firm Elmwood Park, NJ

• Area susceptible to sags and brownouts

• Remote monitoring alerts IT staff to disruptions 24/7/365

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… toward the ultimate goal of eliminating failures all together.


Enabling Effective Capacity Management

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… touch on this now in the next few slides.


• Server procurement takes only a few weeks

• UPS and precision cooling procurement and deployment can take six months or more

• Trending helps to predict capacity needs and prevents infrastructure from inhibiting growth

Anticipating capacity needs

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… help you predict for those needs.


Trending to anticipate growth

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… trend information to help anticipate for growth needs.


Thoughtful power design

• Strategic deployment of power system• Prevent stranded capacity

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… available, and that we’re paying for within this data center.


Benefits of improved capacity management

• Improve resource utilization• Extend the life of existing

resources• Delay capital expenditure• Shut down unnecessary units• Deploy additional servers

within a rack, taking advantage of the efficiencies of high density

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… help me manage those capacity needs.


Enhancing Efficiency to Reduce Costs

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… help me reduce costs for our data center organization.


Data center energy consumption model5,000 sq. ft. data center

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… big portion of the overall cost of running it.


Measuring PUE

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… points within your data center, to be able to calculate the PUE.


• Cooling– Share data to team

multiple units– Manage compressor load,

humidification, dehumidification and cycling

• Power– UPS and PDU

optimization, management and control

Using monitoring tools to improve efficiency

CR

AC

CR

ACC

RA

C

CR

AC

Fan Speed Control Sensors

Unit Control Sensor

Integrated Control Solution

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… in a few minutes, how we can effect that


• Fan speed follows return air temperature• Energy savings based on a single 10HP motor• Savings based on a 10 cent cost per KWh

Controlling cooling infrastructure to match room conditions

80% 80%70%70%<60%60%

4.2KWh

2.8KWh

1.8KWh

90% 90% 5.9KWh

100% 100% 8.1KWh

48% ($3,477 / yr)66% ($4,682 / yr)78% ($5,587 / yr)

27% ($1,931/ yr)0% ($0 / yr)

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… save money and be more efficient with my system.


A

B

C

Variable Fan Speed

Too Much Flow = Waste of EnergyVariable Fan Speed

A

B

C

Not Enough Flow = Hotspots

Too much / not enough air flow

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… because they’re not operating in an optimal environment


Temperature Control Sensor

Variable Fan Speed

Fan Speed Control Sensor

75-80 F

72-75 F

70-72 F

Even distribution of air flow

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… that we’re not over- or under-cooling a space.


Server Utilization in Virtualized Environment

0 12 24h

0

100

Source: McKinsey & Company “Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency,” 2008

Fluctuating loads requires constant management of data center capacities

• Even in a virtualized environment, data center utilization remains below 25% for large parts of a day

• Leveraging UPS intelligence can increase efficiency while maintaining availability

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… both of these tasks.


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3 Units @ 25% Load Each = 90% Efficiency

% L

oad

2 Units @ 38% Load = 92% Efficiency

Intelligent paralleling allows for “automatic phase in” of capacity

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… infrastructure.


• Monitoring and infrastructure management tools and strategies enable organizations to achieve key business objectives:– Improving availability– Improving capacity management– Improving energy efficiency

Summary

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… and turn it back over to Thom.


Q & A

Matt Zieg,Manager, Product MarketingLiebert Infrastructure Management and MonitoringEmerson Network Power

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Thom: Thanks Matt. At this time, Matt will be happy to take your questions. We can still accept your questions, which you can submit by clicking on the questions tab and typing your question in the box. I’d also like to remind everyone that the first 50 people to register and fill out the brief survey at the end of our Web cast will receive a two-in-one laser pointer integrated with a 1-gigabyte USB drive, so be sure to look for the survey in a few minutes. Our first question comes from … (wrap up on next slide)


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We’ll need to wrap up the questions now, but Matt will be answering all the questions we didn’t have time for today in a special video that will be posted to YouTube and the Emerson Network Power Multimedia Portal. You can download these slides now by clicking on the Download Slides button, on the bottom right-hand side of your console. And, your colleagues can view today’s session on demand beginning Thursday at www.liebert.com. Don't forget to look for information on our next Business Innovators Webcast on August 18: “To 30 kilo-watts and Beyond: High-Density Infrastructure Strategies that Improve Efficiencies and Cut Costs.” You can register for the webcast by going to the Emerson Network Power Events page on Liebert.com under “Information.” In the meantime, I encourage you to connect with Emerson Network Power on Twitter by following “at-E-M-R-S-N-N-P-DATA-C-N-T-R” for breaking news and information including webcasts, case studies and white papers. One final note: the survey will be presented as a "pop up." To make sure your pop-up blocker if off for this effort, you’ll want to press and hold the "control" key. Go ahead and press that now. On behalf of Emerson Network Power. I’d like to thank you all for your time and attention today, we hope to see you again in August. Sign Off

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