Oct 5, 2012 ... Blade Servers Are A Prime Swap Candidate. Front View Of 2 HP c7000
BladeSystems Rear View Of 2 HP c7000 BladeSystems ...
Swap Those Old Power Supplies!
Dennis P. Symanski EPRI - Senior Project Manager
SVLG Data Center Efficiency Summit 24OCT2012 – AMD Sunnyvale, CA
Best Candidates For Power Supply Swap-Out
•Any “Long-Life” IT Product –Products that are “upgraded” in the field • Mainframe computers • Blade Servers • Storage Arrays
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Combination Of High Efficiency Power Supplies & Power Management Software
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Snohomish Data Center – Everett, WA
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Blade Servers Are A Prime Swap Candidate
Rear View Of 2 HP c7000 BladeSystems
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HP c7000 BladeSystem Details
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Happy Recipient Of 50 80PLUS “Gold” PSs Power Supplies Were Happy
“Hot-Swappable”
Recipient
It Took 2 Minutes 80PLUS
To Swap Out All
Power
6 Power Supplies
Supplies
Per Blade Server
($293 each) No Server Downtime During Swap-out
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Power Supply Efficiency – Snohomish Data Center Old Power Supplies
New Power Supplies
EE-01 to EE-12
PSU-1 to PSU-2
(80PLUS Bronze)
Efficiency Graph
(80PLUS Gold)
100%
EE-01 EE-02 EE-03 EE-04 EE-05 EE-06 EE-07 EE-08 EE-09 EE-10 EE-11 EE-12 PSU-1 PSU-2
Efficiency
95%
90%
85%
Efficiency Gain 10% 11.79% 20% 7.02% 50% 3.47% 100% 2.78%
80%
75% 10% Loading
20% Loading
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100% Loading
EPRI Data Collection – Snohomish Data Center
Timestamp
Test Setup Configuration
DP
Dynamic Power Status
PSU
PSU Unit Status
CPU
CPU Utilization
VM
Virtualization (Which servers/ applications virtualized)
kWh
All Meter Data
Timestamp
Test Configuration
Energy
EPRI Data Management
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EPRI Data Acquisition System
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Metering Installation - Snohomish Data Center Local LAN
PDU SOURCE 1SOURCE 2 AVAILABLE AVAILABLE ALARM S1 IN SYNC S2 INPUT INPUT S1 S2 BYPASS BYPASS LOAD LOAD A B OUTPUT EVENTS LOGIN HELP
MENU ACK CANCEL
Gateway kWh
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Twisted Pair CB100A CB100A
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CB 15,17 CB 14,16 CB 18,20 CB 7,9 CB 13,15 CB 8,10 CB 17,19 CB 33,35 CB 12,14 CB 28,30
Rack 1 Blade Enclosures 1,2
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Rack 2 Blade Enclosures 3,4
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Test Plan – Snohomish Data Center
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Blade Enclosure Servers
Blade Enclosure Servers
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Test 4
Dynamic Power Regulation - OFF
Dynamic Power Regulation - ON
Blade Enclosure Servers
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Non 80-Plus DC Power Supplies
HP ILO Dynamic Power Management Application Active and Inactive
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80-Plus DC Power Supplies
Test Results – Snohomish Data Center
Power Supplies
Dynamic Power Mgmt (DPM)
kW
ΔkW
%ΔkW
Original
Off
6.3
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Original
On
5
1.3
-21
80PLUS Gold
Off
5.9
-0.4
-6
80PLUS Gold
On
4.7
-1.6
-25
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Test Results – Snohomish Data Center
DPM – OFF Old PSs
DPM – OFF New PSs
DPM – ON Old PSs
DPM – ON New PSs
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Power Supplies Keep Getting More Efficient
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Are We Finished With Data Center Energy Efficiency? Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
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New York Times & U.S. Congress & WNYC/NPR
23SEP2012 Sunday New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
27SEP2012 U.S. Congress letter to the Dept of Energy & the EPA http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Chu.Jackson.DataCenterEnergyEfficiency.2012.9.27.pdf
05OCT2012 live interview by Leonard Lopate on WNYC/NPR http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2012/oct/05/please-explain-cloud-computing-and-data-barns/
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Together…Shaping the Future of Electricity
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