Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:15 AM
jhinkle
MMS 2008: Green IT
- Why does energy matter?
- Gartner estimates that energy is 4%-7% of IT budget
- Energy costs continue to increase
- 60 billion KWh went to commercial datacenters in US, 1.5% of total, more than all color TVs
- Consumption up 12% annually in datacenter environments
- Optimized datacenter
- Floor layout - hot aisle/cold aisle
- clean up areas - get rid of debris that is blocking ventilation
- Get rid of sleepers - 10-30% of server do "nothing" - find by looking at average utilization
- Consolidate servers as much as possible
- Combine older servers
- Single or clustered file servers
- Virtualization
- Use the right hardware
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