Welcome IT TAG members IT TAG Agenda December 5, 2013 Present - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Welcome IT TAG members

IT TAG Agenda – December 5, 2013 • Present scoring results • Discussion, comments • Discussion - Incentives and training discussion E3 E3T Energy Efficiency Emerging Technologies

Total Scores 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0

IT Equipment and Power Management Storage Area High Efficency UPS Power Network (SAN) and Server Solid State Drives Equipment for a Management for IT Network Core SCORES Virtualization (Flash Memory) Data Center Equipment Consolidation Legend ENERGY SAVINGS 4.1 3.0 2.9 3.2 1.9 1st place NON-ENERGY 4.1 4.2 2.4 2.0 2.1 2nd place READINESS 4.3 3.6 3.9 3.3 1.9 3rd place ADOPTION EASE 4.3 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.1 VALUE 3.9 3.1 3.0 3.2 1.7 TOTAL 4.1 3.4 3.0 2.9 2.1 Storage Area High Efficency UPS Power Network (SAN) and Server Solid State Drives Equipment for a Management for IT Network Core SCORES Virtualization (Flash Memory) Data Center Equipment Consolidation ENERGY SAVINGS 1 3 4 2 5 NON-ENERGY 2 1 3 5 4 READINESS 1 3 2 4 5 ADOPTION EASE 1 4 5 3 2 VALUE 1 3 4 2 5 TOTAL 1 2 3 4 5

E3T 2013 IT TAG: IT Equipment and Power Management Server Virtualization Solid State Drives (Flash Memory) High Efficency UPS Equipment for a Data Center Power Management for IT Equipment Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Core Consolidation 5 4 3 2 1 0

HVAC Ongoing Commissoining of Airflow Air-Side Economizers in a Management for Economizers for Direct Server SCORES Data Center Data Centers Data Centers Cabinet Cooling Legend ENERGY SAVINGS 2.9 3.3 2.4 3.0 1st place NON-ENERGY 2.8 2.5 2.4 2.6 2nd place 3.5 3.8 4.1 3.1 READINESS 3rd place ADOPTION EASE 3.7 3.1 2.3 2.1 VALUE 3.5 3.6 3.1 2.3 TOTAL 3.3 3.3 3.2 2.6 Ongoing Commissioning of Airflow Air-Side Economizers in a Management for Economizers for Direct Server SCORES Data Center Data Centers Data Centers Cabinet Cooling ENERGY SAVINGS 3 1 4 2 1 3 4 2 NON-ENERGY READINESS 3 2 1 4 ADOPTION EASE 1 2 3 4 VALUE 2 1 3 4 TOTAL 1 2 3 4

E3T 2013 IT TAG: HVAC Scoring Ongoing Commissoining of Economizers in a Data Center Airflow Management for Data Centers Direct Server Cabinet Cooling Air-Side Economizers for Data Centers 5 4 3 2 1 0

Top 9 ETs Storage Area Ongoing Airflow Air-Side Power Network (SAN) Solid State Commissoining Management Economizers High Efficency Management Direct Server and Network Server Drives (Flash of Economizers for Data for Data UPS Equipment for IT Cabinet Core SCORES Virtualization Memory) in a Data Center Centers Centers for a Data Center Equipment Cooling Consolidation ENERGY SAVINGS 4.1 3.0 2.9 3.3 4.2 2.9 3.2 3.0 1.9 NON-ENERGY 4.1 4.2 2.8 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.0 2.6 2.1 READINESS 4.3 3.6 3.5 3.8 4.1 3.9 3.3 3.1 1.9 ADOPTION EASE 4.3 2.9 3.7 3.1 2.3 2.9 2.9 2.1 3.1 VALUE 3.9 3.1 3.5 3.6 3.1 3.0 3.2 2.3 1.7 TOTAL 4.1 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.6 2.1

Ongoing Commissioning of Economizers in a Data Center Energy Savings Readiness Benefits Benefits • Plenty of vendors and service providers probably • Allows persistent economizer savings can do this Barriers Barriers • Highly variable • Unknown if providers are ready and offering • Dependent on each site service in NW • Depends on existing status of economizer • Not easy measure for utility incentives operation. • difficult to verify • Most small server rooms and localized data centers • data center economizers and FDD likely required don't feature economizers... in 90.1-2013 Non-Energy Benefits • Longer useful life of cooling equipment E3 E3T Energy Efficiency Emerging Technologies 9

Ongoing Commissioning of Economizers in a Data Center Adoption Ease Value Benefits Barriers • No real barrier • No market • Can be done with data center dashboards, digital • Difficult to design prescriptive program economizers and FDD • assumes an economizer in place Other • Combine data center economizers and continuous commissioning into one measure • continuous commissioning must be done with economizer • ensures that economizer savings persist. E3 E3T Energy Efficiency Emerging Technologies 10

Airflow Management in Data Centers Energy Savings Non-Energy Benefits • Better performance and more uniform cooling by Benefits the HVAC system. • Savings from reduced airflow (through installation • Recaptures cooling capacity, allows higher or use of VFDs) utilization of facility • Mechanical cooling energy use can be reduced • Eliminates hot spots • Quite good • Additional cooling capacity Barriers • Difficult to measure, calculate, and capture as prescriptive measure • BC Hydro Power Smart has never claimed savings from ECM • Need to conduct full M&V to validate • Must be implemented with other measures – by itself does not save much E3 E3T Energy Efficiency Emerging Technologies 11

Airflow Management in Data Centers Readiness Adoption Ease Benefits Benefits • Products and individual ETs readily available and • Fairly easy to correct air management issues accepted in marketplace • Techniques well known Barriers • Only applicable to facilities with dedicated cooling Barriers systems – thus larger server rooms/localized data center sector • Few vendors specialize in airflow management. • Very site specific • Most efforts installed piecemeal or by a • very time-consuming to contain and balance knowledgeable vendor, not by an organization that specializes in a holistic approach to airflow airflow management. • IT staff managers not motivated to make necessary changes to facilities. • Very site specific solutions E3 E3T Energy Efficiency Emerging Technologies 12

Server Virtualization Energy Savings Barriers Benefits • Free ridership • For existing programs - good, tested savings • Market already moving this direction estimates • Smaller energy footprint • Market soon saturated • Savings per unit very good. • Already standard practice • Energy savings known and quantifiable • Savings not reliable • Can be generalized for a prescriptive rebate program • Savings lost if new servers not properly sized model. • Energy savings estimates based on 2005 - 2007 EPA • Very reliable. study data. • Opportunity for small in-building DCs. • Savings depend on server consolidation ratios E3T E3 Energy Efficiency Emerging Technologies 13

Server Virtualization Non-Energy Benefits Readiness • Driven by business needs beyond energy savings. Benefits • Performance, space and power constraints drive • Technology ready measure • Competitive OEM market and IT server provider • Centralized management. Reliability opportunities community supports utility incentive program delivery. • provisioning of new computer resources in minutes, • Already mature and widely used in most data avoids delays in procuring new physical assets centers • Increase processing capacity Barriers • Not really "emerging", but well proven – hasn't achieved market adoption for small in-building DCs • Saturation may be reached quickly. • Replacement efforts have existed a while E3T E3 Energy Efficiency Emerging Technologies 14

Server Virtualization Adoption Ease Value Benefits Benefits • Use of technology is easy • Performance, space and power constraints drive measure • Should be considered standard practice for new • Good value with significant long term benefits for server deployments. utilities. • Utility opportunity is to accelerate adoption in Barriers existing applications and equipment in smaller to • Needs a lot of IT upgrades mid-size data centers. • Lengthy implementation times and labor intensive. • Great return on investment, but requires up front • Convincing IT personnel to shift to a different data capital for new servers - reduce maintenance and center or remove back-up servers energy costs will quickly pay back though • Pushback from IT personnel based on actual or perceived reliability. • Difficulty migrating existing servers to virtual servers E3T E3 Energy Efficiency Emerging Technologies 15

Solid State Drives (Flash Memory) Energy Savings Non-Energy Benefits • May happen anyway as costs drop. Benefits • Savings significant (in right application) • Benefits may be great enough for it to happen for other reasons. • Lower energy use = more savings. • Faster transfer speeds and lower latencies. • SSD has significant energy savings potential for all • Can displace a lot of gear. storage tiers. • Can push up processing speeds and equipment accessibility. Barriers • Improved performance and limited short-stroke HDD • Reliability unclear applications may drive this measure • Flash drive storage is still expensive. • No moving parts, Little impact to shock, vibration • For most applications, non-existent savings • Lifetime based on write-endurance • No real savings compared to the same amount of • Increased response time but bandwidth into drive HDD may is the same – may not be a noticeable benefit to • Short-stroked HDD appears to have more energy end user. savings benefits than SSD. • Only special cases yield savings E3T E3 Energy Efficiency Emerging Technologies 16