One look at the statistics tells you why data center energy efficiency has become a top-of-mind issue:
- Power and cooling costs now equal half of each dollar spent on new servers(1)
- Cooling accounts for 50 percent of power costs — which means it costs the same to cool as to compute(2)
- Server density has increased 10X over the past decade(3); the average server’s power consumption has quadrupled(4)
- Higher density and the resultant higher operating temperatures spawn increased administration costs and premature systems failure(5)
- Upwards of 60 percent of data center capacity can be wasted due to poorly designed layouts and airflow(6)
- The EPA estimates that energy-management best practices combined with IT consolidation could reduce data center power consumption by as much as 45 percent(7)
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Today your IT organization faces a two-pronged challenge. You need to deliver superior service quality and reliability to meet expanding business needs. And you need to do so within an efficient, cost-effective power and cooling envelope.
But energy consumption, thermal conditions and cooling requirements are fast becoming the limiting factors in data center environments. Factors that can constrain your ability to take advantage of continuing improvements in processor performance and system density.
The ramifications extend beyond power and cooling to system availability and business continuity. With server proliferation, the growing popularity of high-density form factors such as blade servers and the need to run ever more complex workloads, uptime maximization is an increasingly urgent issue. |
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By proactively managing power and cooling issues, you can improve reliability in mission-critical environments, reduce energy costs and make the most of your existing facility and infrastructure.
HP Services is well equipped to deliver all the assistance you need. We leverage innovative technologies and methodologies for understanding your unique thermal capacities and requirements today — and for anticipating how they are likely to evolve over time.
HP Data Center Thermal Assessment Services can help you:
- Optimize equipment placement across your room
- Cut power consumption, costs and environmental impacts by identifying over-cooled areas
- Increase capacity without facility expansion — optimize space utilization and power and cooling efficiency, postpone or eliminate costly mechanical upgrades or facilities buildouts
- Isolate, and obtain expert recommendations for addressing, failure-prone hot spots
- Improve reliability in mission-critical environments by identifying areas of highest — and lowest — redundancy
- Obtain data for analyzing the impact of prospective changes in layout, infrastructure equipment or cooling capacity
- Assess the potential impact of various contingencies or failure scenarios to help maximize availability and sustain business continuity
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HP Thermal Assessment Services address the concerns of organizations of every size and description — from businesses with smaller data centers or limited power and cooling challenges to large facilities with thousands of servers and extremely complex power and cooling challenges.
Sophisticated modeling tools and techniques determine the unique thermal conditions within your data center. Then HP Services professionals offer practical, results-focused recommendations for immediate and ongoing improvements. |
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First analyze. Then optimize.
Choose the service level that accommodates your specific needs and budget:
Thermal Quick Assessment – An entry-level assessment based on interviews with your staff and HP observations. Gap analysis highlights improvements required for thermal management best practices.
Quick Assessment for HP BladeSystem Environments –Assessment of space, power and cooling requirements for data center infrastructures with high-density blade server deployments.
Thermal Intermediate Assessment – A broader, custom service that includes the Quick Assessment features plus two-dimensional thermal modeling of below-floor thermal conditions.
Thermal Comprehensive Assessment – A highly customized offering that expands on the Intermediate Assessment with air conditioner-specific 3D thermodynamic modeling using HP Thermal Zone Mapping. This assessment also includes an analysis of the impact of room and rack configuration, management practices and failure scenarios, as well as providing detailed energy-optimization recommendations.
HP Thermal Assessment Services are components of HP’s comprehensive Data Center Services portfolio. |
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(1)“Service-Based Approaches to Improving Data Center Thermal and Power Efficiencies,” IDC White Paper, May 2007.
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(3)“Datacom Equipment and Power Trends and Cooling Applications,” American Society for Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2005.
(4)“Service-Based Approaches to Improving Data Center Thermal and Power Efficiencies.”
(5)“Powering the Data Center: Doing More with Less,” Verari Systems, 2005.
(6)“Data Center Efficiency and Productivity,” Uptime Institute White Paper, 2006.
(7)“Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, August 2007. |
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