Lisa RiCharde asked:


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.

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



To download the complete white paper, please visit: http://www.42u.com/energy-efficient-datacenter.htm.



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