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This presentation shows that Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Software to a Data Center Manager is what ERP software is to a VP - Manufacturing. This is the 2nd presentation from a series of 3-part series from GreenField Software on the subject: DCIM for High Availability. DCIM Software charts out the relationship maps for assets by identifying various dependencies among them. Threshold-based alerts on critical parameters, combined with impact analysis of Move-Add-Change, mitigates risks of DC failures. GreenField Software’s Mission is to help Data Centers control capital expenditures reduce operating expenses and mitigate the risks of Data Center failures. Besides DCIM Software, GFS offers Data Center Advisory Services in the areas of best practices, capacity planning, energy efficiency and business continuity of data centers.
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Data Center Infrastructure
Management: ERP for the Data Center Manager
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Topics
• What’s DCIM & the ERP Analogy
• Why DCIM
• How DCIM Works
• How DCIM Helps
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DCIM – by Definition
“DCIM is a system that collects and manages information about a datacenter’s assets, resource use and operational status. This information is then analyzed and delivered in ways that help managers meet business
objectives, service goals and optimize the datacenter’s performance”.
- Andrew Donoghue (Analyst, Eco-Efficient IT), 451 Research
Simpler Definition from GFS: DCIM is the ERP for a Data Center, helping to allocate and optimize key Data Center resources
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DCIM & the ERP Analogy
• Manages plant assets
• Bridges gap between Distributed Control and Manufacturing Execution Systems.
• Enables production planning and inventory management.
• Tracks orders, work-in-process, optimizes resources subject to supply chain constraints.
• Provides visibility for KPIs like Inventory Turns, Inventory Accuracy.
• Enables lean manufacturing through best practices like Kanban, APICS frameworks.
• Manages plant assets
• Bridges gap between Distributed Control and Manufacturing Execution Systems.
• Enables production planning and inventory management.
• Tracks orders, work-in-process, optimizes resources subject to supply chain constraints.
• Provides visibility for KPIs like Inventory Turns, Inventory Accuracy.
• Enables lean manufacturing through best practices like Kanban, APICS frameworks.
• Manages Data Center Assets
• Bridges gap between Facilities and IT Management Systems.
• Enables capacity planning for power, space ; avoids stranded capacities
• Tracks power usage, Move-Add-Changes and optimizes asset utilization subject to high availability constraints.
• Provides visibility for KPIs like PUE, watt per rack, watt per sq ft.
• Enables lean & green IT with best practices frameworks like ITIL, EU Code of Conduct & Green Grid.
• Manages Data Center Assets
• Bridges gap between Facilities and IT Management Systems.
• Enables capacity planning for power, space ; avoids stranded capacities
• Tracks power usage, Move-Add-Changes and optimizes asset utilization subject to high availability constraints.
• Provides visibility for KPIs like PUE, watt per rack, watt per sq ft.
• Enables lean & green IT with best practices frameworks like ITIL, EU Code of Conduct & Green Grid.
ERP DCIM
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DCIM: Manages Data Center Assets DCIM: Manages Data Center Assets
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DCIM: Bridges Gap Between Facilities & IT Management
DCIM: Single solution for end-to-end data center monitoring & data center operations
DCIM: Single solution for end-to-end data center monitoring & data center operations
Facilities IT
IT System
Performance
Management
IT System
Performance
Management
Building
Management
System
Building
Management
System
Data Center
Infrastructure
Management
Data Center
Infrastructure
Management
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DCIM: Enables Capacity Planning
Capacity planning on power and space Capacity planning based on real-time and historical data Capacity planning based on ‘What-if’ analysis
Intelligent Capacity Planning
Identifying best rack for device provisioning and best row for rack provisioning Based on power & space availability, best racks identified for new device provisioning Based on PDU load, best rows identified for rack provisioning
Auto-provisioning based on available capacity
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DCIM Monitors, Manages & Optimizes
Monitoring Managing & Optimizing
Identifies underutilized resources
Helps to Predict Failures
Becomes a system of controls against unauthorized changes
Optimizes floor & rack space utilization
Optimizes Power & Cooling
Enables accurate capacity planning on fact-based analysis.
Identifies underutilized resources
Helps to Predict Failures
Becomes a system of controls against unauthorized changes
Optimizes floor & rack space utilization
Optimizes Power & Cooling
Enables accurate capacity planning on fact-based analysis.
Monitors asset base across their lifecycle
Monitors power use and environmental parameters
Monitors provisioning and Changes through Work Flow Management
Monitors & records Move-Add-Change (MAC) of assets
Monitors available redundancy paths & identifies Points of Failures across the power chain
Monitors asset base across their lifecycle
Monitors power use and environmental parameters
Monitors provisioning and Changes through Work Flow Management
Monitors & records Move-Add-Change (MAC) of assets
Monitors available redundancy paths & identifies Points of Failures across the power chain
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DCIM: Provides 360°View of DC Operations
How Does My Data Center Measure Up to Global Standards How Does My Data Center Measure Up to Global Standards
Are the Data Centre Infrastructure & Capital Costs aligned to process
improvements?
Have we been able to reduce Infrastructure
OpEx?
Are we maintaining a Risk-free Data Centre
Infrastructure?
Is the infrastructure delivering on the
technology innovation?
DCIM
Dashboard
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Like ERP, DCIM is a Constraint-Based
Planning Software.
Data Center Operations can no longer be
managed by spreadsheets & Visio tools
Like ERP, DCIM is a Constraint-Based
Planning Software.
Data Center Operations can no longer be
managed by spreadsheets & Visio tools
DCIM – The ERP for Data Center Operations
Maximizing Asset Utilization and Optimizing Power, Space & Cooling subject to High Availability and Physical Constraints
Maximizing Asset Utilization and Optimizing Power, Space & Cooling subject to High Availability and Physical Constraints
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Why DCIM? The Data Center Challenge
Keeping Up With High Availability Keeping Up With High Availability
Extreme Redundancies for 99.99% Uptime -> Too many assets & complex to manage Extreme Redundancies for 99.99% Uptime -> Too many assets & complex to manage
Huge Population of N+1/N+2 Equipment -> High Capital Costs & Asset Under utilization Huge Population of N+1/N+2 Equipment -> High Capital Costs & Asset Under utilization
Chain of inter-dependent equipment -> Multiple points of failures Chain of inter-dependent equipment -> Multiple points of failures
Growing Heat Loads, Carbon Emissions & e-waste -> Sustainability Issues Growing Heat Loads, Carbon Emissions & e-waste -> Sustainability Issues
KW per Rack increases as more processing capacity is added -> Trade-offs: need to support more per rack versus extra space & heat loads. KW per Rack increases as more processing capacity is added -> Trade-offs: need to support more per rack versus extra space & heat loads.
High Availability is Inversely Proportional to Asset Utilization & Energy Efficiency High Availability is Inversely Proportional to Asset Utilization & Energy Efficiency
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Role of DCIM
DCIM functions: • Data collection • Environmental monitoring and reporting • Asset, configuration and change management • Power management • Data reporting • Capacity planning, forecasting, simulation and analytics • Optimization, operational BI, load management DCIM benefits: • By delivering right information at the right time DCIM ensures highest level
of availability • Allows optimized efficiencies by integrating information from IT and facility
assets • Future-proof architecture based on Capacity Planning and BMS data that
supports design changes
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Servers Network Devices Storages
IT Infrastructure
Enterprise LAN
Building Management Network
UPS PDU DG set Rack Sensors
Facility Infrastructure
Gateway Device/Protocol Converter
Aggregator Switch
AHU
Transformer
DC Monitoring
How DCIM Works: Single Console for Facilities & IT
DCIM
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Power Systems Monitoring and Management
Monitors real-time power at different levels of the power chain HT/LT Transformer Switch Gears Diesel GenSets UPS Row and rack PDUs IT Devices Cooling & Lighting infrastructure
Reports power consumption for Entire data center Facility infrastructure like cooling and lighting IT infrastructure For individual devices/device groups/device classes/SBUs or customers
Sends threshold based email and SMS alerts on power consumption
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Data Center Environment Monitoring
Monitors critical environmental parameters of the data center such as Temperature (Room and rack level) Return air and supply air temperature Humidity (Room and rack level) Hot spots in the data center and temperature profiling of racks
The captured environmental statistics is analyzed and viewed through dashboards and different reports and can also be sent as threshold based alerts on email or SMS.
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Data Center IT Monitoring
Apart from monitoring power consumption and environmental operating conditions of servers, DCIM can actively monitor health, performance, resource utilization and availability of servers.
Based on utilization pattern, age and application type, DCIM helps to identify retirement, replacement and virtualization candidates which can be repurposed to reduce server footprint of the data center. Helps in avoiding IT downtime by sending proactive alerts on resource utilization of IT devices to designated IT staffs.
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DCIM: Managing & Optimizing
Base-lining : DCIM, through real-time monitoring of critical parameters, finds out how data center resources are being utilized and how much capacity is remaining. Freeing up stranded capacity: DCIM provides visibility of rack space and power use, thus minimizing stranded capacities to accommodate new IT devices. Projecting future capacity requirement: DCIM helps to accurately forecast rise in energy consumption, cooling and space requirements due to computing growth Auto-Provisioning: DCIM enables ‘auto-provisioning’ of new customers/new IT infrastructure based on objectives and operating constraints of the data center.
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DCIM Provides Data Center Manager KPIs
Reports & Analytics on - Uptime and availability - Energy efficiency and health - Data center costs and savings - Capacity/Resource utilization and availability - Operational efficiency and SLA Compliance
Reports & Analytics on - Uptime and availability - Energy efficiency and health - Data center costs and savings - Capacity/Resource utilization and availability - Operational efficiency and SLA Compliance
KRA: Reports & Analytics
KRA: Reports & Analytics
DC
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DC
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How DCIM Helps
Since DCIM Software dynamically captures information related to asset utilization, power consumption, environmental conditions and other parameters, it • Helps Data Center Manager avoid unnecessary over-provisioning • Helps plan investments and new capacity • Helps reduce the capital costs • Helps reduce power use and other operating costs • Helps reduce risk of failures through critical alerts • Helps adapting to technical and business change more easily • Helps improvement plans through real-time metrics & dashboard
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Thank You
http://www.greenfieldsoft.com Email: [email protected]
See Also on slideshare: The High Availability Mantra:
How DCIM Can Help
