Defer Capital Expenditures for Expansions
Data centers consume huge amounts of electricity every year. The power constraint is key factor for data center operators to increase rack server density, meanwhile a lot of provisioned power is reserved as the safe margin to handle the rarely peak power demand or power source failure, leading to considerable power under-utilization as well as implicated performance loss comparing to design target.
There are several ways to increase data center rack power utilization. One way is to monitor the environment and collect information about power usage at the cabinet, rack and device level. You can also implement intelligent rack PDUs and DCIM software to provide information about reducing energy consumption and the best locations to install new servers based on power, humidity or temperature considerations.
Stranded power capacity is a waste of resources and money. It reduces the overall efficiency of your data center and leads to higher operating costs and unnecessary expansions of new cabinets and even new sites.
Since deploying server-ready cabinets is expensive, there are significant cost savings to be had by recovering and using stranded power capacity for new deployments instead of provisioning new resources.
Modern DCIM software with an “Auto Power Budget” feature automates server power budgeting so you can safely deploy more servers in your existing cabinet resources. It leverages data from outlet-metered intelligent rack PDUs to calculate a power budget number for each server instance based on its actual load in your environment.
Built-in algorithms and user configurable policies ensure that the budget numbers are compliant with your predetermined risk factor, and budget numbers are automatically updated every week based on the latest readings. Using this feature, Comcast was able to get 40% more utilization out of their existing resources.
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Sunbird’s DCIM software provides the data and capabilities you need for a complete, accurate view of capacity. It simplifies how you find and reserve capacity, including physical space, power, and network connections, to optimize utilization. You can leverage the capacity report to clearly demonstrate your need to purchase more capacity.
Sunbird DCIM Monitoring provides an intuitive configurable dashboard, locates stranded power, and improves data center uptime. Stranded capacity refers to data center resources that are not known to be available for use.
Most of the time, you don’t even know if you have stranded capacity and how much there is. Power, space, cooling, and data/power ports are the main capacity parameters in the data center.
Stranded capacity refers to installed capacity (cooling, power, space) that cannot be used to support the critical load. It occurs when an imbalance occurs between these three parameters that restrict the overall power efficiency of the data center. Power and cooling capacity become stranded when predicted IT power densities never materialize.
COMCAST RESULTS using SUNBIRD DCIM
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