Opis: Grow a Greener Data Center - Douglas Alger, D Alger

Grow a Greener Data Center A guide to building and operating energy-efficient, ecologically sensitive IT and Facilities infrastructure Conventional Data Centers can have a huge impact upon the environment, using massive amounts of energy and water, emitting pollutants, and discarding huge quantities of machine waste. Their insatiable demand for energy and often inefficient designs make Data Centers expensive to operate and prime targets for future environmental regulation. Fortunately, it's now possible to design a Data Center that consumes fewer resources, costs less money to run, has a longer usable lifespan, and can even highlight a company's social responsibility. Grow a Greener Data Center shows how. Douglas Alger makes the business case for greening Data Centers and presents technologies, design strategies, and operational approaches to help any company improve the energy efficiency and "eco-friendliness" of their IT hosting environments. He provides multiple strategies for "greening" each phase of a new Data Center project--selecting a site, designing and building the facility, and choosing hardware--as well as tips for retrofitting an existing server environment. Alger explores IT and facilities technology areas as well as broader green building practices, including building material selection, electrical system design, use of alternative energy, cooling system design, cabling media choices, fire suppression options, water conservation practices, landscaping strategies, recycling programs, e-waste management, and more. * Explores how to green each phase of your Data Center project including site selection, physical design, construction, and hardware selection * Offers green strategies for all Data Center technologies including power, cooling, cabling, fire suppression, and virtualization * Presents IT and facilities design (and retrofitting) strategies that can save hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in energy costs * Reveals financial incentive programs to help pay for green Data Center initiatives * Outlines Data Center efficiency metrics and environmental building assessment systems used worldwide to rate how green a facility is * Highlights the lessons of dozens of case studies and real-world installations pertaining to energy efficiency, green building projects, and Data Center technologies * Addresses broader green business practices including proper e-waste disposal, water conservation, and fostering alternative transportation Related Title: Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business ISBN-10: 1-58705-182-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-182-1 Category: Data Center Covers: Green ITIntroduction xvii Chapter 1 Going Green in the Data Center 1 Defining Green 1 The Reasons to Go Green 2 Growing Power Demand, Shrinking Availability 2 Monetary Benefits 5 Capacity Gains 9 Increasing Regulation 10 Recent Government Green Commitments 10 Multicountry Green Commitments 11 Technology Advances 14 Public Perception 15 If You Don't Own Your Data Centers 18 Resistance to Green 20 Green Incentive Programs 22 Utility Companies 22 Government Programs 24 Who Is Going Green 25 Green from the Start 26 Greenest Company in the World 26 Most Socially Responsible 26 Financial Institutions 27 Citigroup 28 HSBC Group 29 Technology Companies 29 Cisco 29 Hewlett-Packard Company 30 IBM 31 Retailers 31 The Home Depot 32 Wal-Mart 32 Chapter 2 Measuring Green Data Centers 35 Why Measure in the Data Center 35 What to Measure in the Data Center 36 Energy Usage 36 Carbon Footprint 37 Other Data Center Elements 39 Environmental Building Assessment Systems 39 Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) 41 Green Globes 42 Haute Qualite Environmentale (HQE) 43 Hong Kong Building Environmental Assessment Method (HK-BEAM) 44 Ecology, Energy Saving, Waste Reduction, and Health (EEWH) 45 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) 46 National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) 48 Comprehensive Assessment System for Building Environmental Efficiency (CASBEE) 49 Green Star 50 Green Mark 51 Comprehensive Environmental Performance Assessment Scheme (CEPAS) 51 German Sustainable Building Certificate 52 Summary of Environmental Building Assessment Systems 53 Organizations Influencing Green Data Center Metrics 56 The European Commission 56 The Green Grid 57 Uptime Institute 57 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 58 Data Center Green Metrics 59 Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) 59 Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIE) 60 Compute Power Efficiency (CPE) 63 Technology Carbon Efficiency (TCE) 64 Corporate Average Data Center Efficiency (CADE) 65 Data Center Productivity (DCP) 68 Usage of Metrics 68 Chapter 3 Green Design and Build Strategies 71 Siting the Data Center 71 Building Design and Material Selection 73 Avoiding the Landfill 73 Embodied Energy and Emissions 76 Maintaining Air Quality 78 Choosing Efficient Fixtures and Appliances 80 Data Center Configuration 82 Building Exterior 82 Landscaping 85 Strategies for a Greener Construction Site 89 Building Commissioning 90 Retrofitting an Existing Data Center 91 Chapter 4 Powering Your Way to a Greener Data Center 93 How a Data Center Consumes Energy 93 The Carbon Factor 95 Alternative Energy Sources 101 Biofuels 102 Fuel Cells 102 Hydropower 105 Hydroelectric Dams 105 Tidal Power 106 Wave Power 107 Solar 107 Wind 108 Designing a Data Center Power System for Maximum Efficiency 109 Direct Current Versus Alternating Current 109 Power Distribution Units 112 Uninterruptible Power Sources 114 Generators 116 Lighting 118 Power Monitoring 119 Overhead Versus Under-Floor Distribution 119 Chapter 5 Cooling Your Way to a Greener Data Center 123 Setting Data Center Temperatures 123 Heat Recovery and Reuse 127 Using Waste Heat from the Data Center 127 Using Waste Heat for the Data Center 129 Mechanical System Opportunities for Efficiency 129 Economizers 130 Heat Wheel 132 Geothermal Cooling 132 Minimizing Partial Loads 133 Variable Frequency Drives 135 Cooling Tower Water 137 Hosting Environment Opportunities for Efficiency 138 Air- Versus Liquid-Based Cooling 139 Optimizing Airflow 141 Isolating Hot and Cold Airflow 141 Plenum 143 Sealing Unwanted Gaps 145 Cabinet Solutions 146 Mapping and Managing Hot Spots 146 Equipment Choices and Distribution 147 Cooling Distribution 148 Chapter 6 Cabling Your Way to a Greener Data Center 151 Cabling Choices 151 Manufacturing Considerations 152 Form Factor 153 Usable Lifespan 153 Power Consumption 154 Streamlining Cabling 157 Structured Cabling 157 Patch Cords 164 Chapter 7 Refrigerants and Fire Suppressants 169 Data Centers and the Ozone Layer 169 Evolution of Refrigerants 170 Evolution of Fire Suppressants 171 Greener Approaches to Refrigerants 175 Greener Fire Suppression Options 176 Changing Environmental Regulations 177 Fire in the Data Center 178 Chapter 8 Choosing Greener Gear 183 Environmental Impact of IT Hardware 183 Hardware Energy Efficiency Targets 185 Energy Star Specifications 185 Climate Savers Computing Initiative 187 Efficiency Metrics for Hardware 189 Energy Consumption Rating (ECR) 189 Energy Efficiency Rating (EER) 190 Space, Watts, and Performance (SWaP) 190 Hardware Utilization 191 Beyond Energy Consumption and Utilization 192 How Budget Process Impacts Hardware Choices 194 Idling Servers 196 Eliminating Less Efficient Hardware 197 Chapter 9 Greening Your Data Center Through Consolidation, Virtualization, and Automation 201 Vision: The Service-Oriented Data Center 201 From Dedicated to Service-Oriented: a Paradigm Shift 203 Optimization Opportunities 208 Consolidation and Standardization 210 Less Is More 211 Consolidation Areas 214 Network 214 Compute Resources 218 Storage 220 Application and Database 224 Facilities 225 Additional Benefits and Challenges 226 Virtualization 227 Abstraction Layer 228 Virtualization Areas 229 Network Virtualization 229 Compute Resource Virtualization 231 Storage Virtualization 234 Application and Database Virtualization 238 Facilities Virtualization 239 Additional Benefits and Challenges 240 Integrated Automation 241 Dynamic Cooling 242 Idling Servers 242 Follow-the-Moon 243 Alternative Data Center Operating Models 243 Content and Application Delivery Networks 243 Everything-as-a-Service 244 Cloud Computing 244 Chapter 10 Greening Other Business Practices 247 Data-Center Consumables 247 E-Waste 248 Non-Data Center Consumables 249 Power Efficiency Outside the Data Center 250 Alternative Transportation 252 Appendix Sources of Data Center Green Information 255 Glossary 263 TOC, 9781587058134, 7.24.09

Szczegóły: Grow a Greener Data Center - Douglas Alger, D Alger

Tytuł: Grow a Greener Data Center
Autor: Douglas Alger, D Alger
Producent: Cisco Press
ISBN: 9781587058134
Rok produkcji: 2009
Ilość stron: 336
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.55 kg

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