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Green Grid 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. |
42U is a member of
The Green Grid! |
This white paper, by The Green Grid, provides
guidelines to migrate existing, traditional
energy consuming data centers into green, energy
efficient data centers that deliver the required
data center cooling. It presents how data center
energy savings can be accomplished, sometimes by
a 90% energy reduction, by making improvements
from both an equipment-planning perspective and
an operational-practices perspective.
This white paper's guidelines include:
- Engineering for Efficiency
- Data center system design
- Floor layout
- Proper configuration of server
software
- Location of vented floor tiles
- Right sized Physical Infrastructure
components
- Deploying Efficiency
- Installing energy efficient power
equipment
- The trend towards closed-coupled
cooling
- Using virtualization to consolidate
existing and future workload
- Installing energy efficient lighting
- Installing blanking panels in racks
- Plumbing for rack level cooling
- Development of new server
replacement policies
- Operating for Efficiency
- Utilization of air conditioning
economizer modes
- Coordination of air conditioners
- Organizing for Efficiency
- Alignment of staff
- Migration from a traditional energy
consuming data center to a modern energy
efficient data center
- Conclusion
- Check list
- Strategies can be used immediate or
over time
- Systematic changes can result in up
to 90% reduction in data center electric
bill
Visit
The Green Grid website to download the entire white paper.
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