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Allen Yang
October 22, 2010
In late August 2010, I wrote on this blog last time that Raritan IT will use Power IQ and PX to monitor the incremental power consumption of the Cisco UCS, while we gradually migrate some physical rack-mount physical servers as VM onto UCS blades. The following results reflect our P2V migration activities between 2010-08-05 and 2010-10-20. We have 2 UCS chassis that we call UCS1 and UCS2, and both of them are installed on our Cisco Rack 4. During the time period from 08/05 to 10/20, we had the following physical activities:
From Power IQ data reading we have the following observations:
In summary, between 08/05 and 10/20, Raritan IT measured power saving of 20KWh a day with the activities of migrating 5 physical servers as VMs onto Cisco UCS blades and remove these physical servers from the racks. The daily power consumption of these observed systems combined dropped from slightly over 330KWh a day on 08/05 to slightly under 310 KWh a day on 10/20. The Power IQ trend diagram also portrays such gradual reduction, which very accurately reflects the activities conducted and the resulting effects on power consumption over the observed time period.
Power Consumption from Aug 5, 2010 to Oct 20, 2010
Raritan IT will continue its physical server migration activities in the next few months, there may be more interesting findings we can gather in the future; stay tuned.
(part of this blog entry is also posted in response to a comment for my late August blog post)
Dorothy Ochs
October 11, 2010
Raritan will be at the Green Data Center Conference on Oct. 20-21, 2010 at the Embassy Suites New York (102 North End Avenue, New York, NY). Come check us out to learn about the latest in power management solutions.
Susana Thompson
September 30, 2010
Data center infrastructures have grown and evolved in step with technology advancements. In amassing the most-advanced technologies and powerful IT equipment to process the ever-growing data spawned by the Internet era, data centers today are sprawling information fortresses —reaching over one million square feet and processing terabytes and petabytes of information daily. The creation of the modern data center focused on uptime and availability, and without much thought to energy— so it is no surprise that today’s data centers are not energy efficient. With their insatiable appetite for energy and skyrocketing energy costs, data centers face a number of power-related problems.
Dorothy Ochs
September 15, 2010
We will be displaying our intelligent PDU’s, KVM-over-IP switch, and DCIM solutions in our booth. Stop by and visit us - you’ll be entered into our drawing for a Canon digital camcorder. For more information and to register: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/conferences/.
James Cerwinski
September 14, 2010
You should consider the following steps if think you are over-cooling your data center or lab — this will likely result in significant energy savings.
1. Start monitoring — Deploy temperature and humidity sensors according to industry recommendations(the top, middle and bottom of the server inlet side of the rack). You can conveniently connect sensors to rack PDUs.
2. Determine if you are over-cooling — Deploy a system to chart your readings to indicate if you are operating within the ASHRAE 2008 recommended range. In 2008, ASHRAE increased their recommended upper temperature limit to 80.6F.
3. If you are over-cooling consider gradually increasing your temperature.
4. Monitor for hot spots — Use a system that will generate events and notifications when non-critical and critical temperature and humidity thresholds are violated.
5. Be aware of long term trends — Chart maximum and minimum environmental readings for long term trend analysis.
James Cerwinski