Data Center White Papers

Data Center White Papers

• Guidelines for Energy Efficient Data Centers- Data center cooling requirements for high-heat density servers are driving power demand and taxing the normal data center operational procedures. The good news is there are solutions to this growing problem and IT managers are able to kill two birds with one stone. By fine-tuning data center energy architecture, corporations can reduce their energy consumption while achieving their green data
  center goals.

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• Four Metrics Define Data Center "Greenness"- Corporations and business leaders are feeling economic pressures as the cost of energy rises. This not only impacts their data center operation costs, but also their plans
  for supporting new pieces of IT equipment. They, along with public policy makers, also realize that energy consumption as a whole is a critical issue. This, combined with the move towards reduced carbon emissions has
  all involved looking for ways to move towards defining the metrics of a "green data center".

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• Managing Extreme Heat - Strategies for High Density - Data center technology has arrived at the point of no return. Servers and communication switches continue to evolve, decreasing in size while increasing in performance. At the same time, their power consumption and heat densities have also increased, generating ten times the heat
  per square foot compared to systems manufactured just ten years ago. The result is...

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• Close Coupled Cooling - Traditional computer room cooling systems have become overloaded, as the trend towards high heat density IT hardware increases. This has the IT community looking for strategies and solutions to provide enough power to ensure network availability while configuring a rack level cooling system that
  supports current and next generation technologies.

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• Reducing Bypass Airflow Is Essential for Eliminating Computer Room Hot Spots-
  In data centers across the country, consistent and reliable data center operations is
  continually being compromised by data center hot spots. As manufacturers continue to introduce high-heat density equipment and computer room capacity requirements grow,
  data center hot spots will get worse.

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• Server Virtualization: Managing the Virtual Data Center: Avocent’s Role in VMWare-Enabled Environments - The benefits of sever virtualization include reduced capital spending on hardware, reduced demands on power and cooling capacity and more flexible allocation of processing capacity. However, server virtualization also has several unique challenges

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• Remote Management: Improving Business Continuity for the Remote Office - This white paper outlines the suite of tools that leverage out-of-band technology to enable access to business critical hardware, even in the absence of network connectivity.

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• Data Center Transformations: Simplify Data Center Build-outs, Consolidations, and Acquisitions - This white paper presents how remote access tools and the use of a five stage BOCA process supports these goals. By implementing robust out-of-band KVM switches, KVM over IP switches, and serial console servers early in the process, you can enable server monitoring while effectively managing the project.

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• Data Center Control: Guidelines to Achieve Centralized Management - The new data center requires systems that provide more control, flexibility and scalability than ever before. You need more than server management. You need a system that reduces your Mean-Time-To-Repair (MTTR) while leveraging the existing resources you already have.

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• Determining the Power Efficiency of Your Data Center - IT environments have undergone significant changes as server densities have risen dramatically over the past
  decade. Servers require increasingly high levels of power and cooling resources, and IT managers and personnel need new metrics for measuring and improving data center
  efficiency.

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• Dispelling the Myths Behind Remote Power Management - Many organizations are turning to intelligent power technology to allow remote administrators to access and manage
  the power state of critical resources. These technologies provide the ability to remotely power
  cycle servers and devices, as well as troubleshoot problems, from any location in the world.
  In many environments, intelligent power solutions can provide numerous benefits, such as decreasing downtime, lowering operating costs, and centralizing datacenter control.

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