2. Optimaliseer de complete infrastructuur binnen uw datacenter met DCIM
Raymond Steenvoorden
Sales Operations Manager Europe

3. Agenda Typical Data Center Management Problems
Determine Capacity: Power, Space, Network and Environmentals
The Solution: Data Center Infrastructure Management

4. Typical Problems in Today’s Data Centers

5. What Does an Enterprise Data Center Look Like?
Facilities
Networking
Systems
Domains
Raised Floor,
UPS, PDU/RPP, Rack PDUs
CRACs, Probes
Structured Cabling,
LAN, SAN, WAN
Mainframe,
Servers, VMs,
Storage,
Apps
Asset Tracking: Spreadsheets, Homegrown DBs
Floor Plan: AutoCAD, Visio
Monitoring: Sitescan, Foreseer, Raritan, etc.
Cable/Net Tracking: Spreadsheets, Homegrown DBs
Configuration: CiscoWorks, etc.
Monitoring:
HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli
Asset Tracking: Spreadsheets, Homegrown DBs
CMDB:
HP OpenView, BMC BladeLogic, etc.
Monitoring:
HP Insight Manager, IBM Director
Tools

6. Common Pain Points in Data Center Management
Unable to manage relationships and dependencies among silos or even within silos
Unable to get accurate views of current resources
Unable to do accurate capacity planning
Unable to enforce best practices and processes (EU code of conduct)
Unable to comply or it is too costly to comply with internal and external regulatory audits

7. Manual Processes Labor-intensive processes Slow, time-consuming
Add New
Device
Dispatch
Personnel
to DC
Rack
Space
Cabling
Patch
Panels
Network or
SAN
Switches
Power
Sockets
+ Capacity
Query
Available
Resources
IP Address
Labor-intensive processes
Slow, time-consuming
Unreliable
Prone to conflict and errors
Costly
Unable to meet SLAs
Problematic
Power
Sockets
+ Capacity

8. Determining Power Capacity
Why determining power capacity is problematic (not so simple)?
Need to understand power chain distribution
Need to understand power chain diversity
Having real-time load monitoring with intelligent rack PDUs help, but they don’t provide the complete picture

9. Power Capacity Example 1 – Normal Conditions
Normal Conditions Facts
Redundant power distribution to cabinet (rack PDU A and B)
Servers with dual load-sharing power supplies
Each power supply max real-time load (load-sharing) is 3 Amps
Total max real-time load on rack PDU A and rack PDU B are 12 Amps each
What is the Available Power?
Is there Enough Information to Determine Power Capacity?
Server Cabinet
Rack PDU A
Rated at 240 Volts,
32 Amps
Electrical Outlet
Rated at 240 Volts, 32 Amps
PS1
Server 1
PS2
PS1
Server 2
PS2
Server 3
Server 4
Max Real-time
Power Load 3 12

10. Power Capacity Example 2 – Power Chain B Failure
Failure Condition Facts
Servers fail over to PS1s
Server max real-time load is now 6 Amps
Rack PDU A real-time max is now 24 Amps
What is the Available Power?
Appears that we have 8 Amps available
Is there Enough Information to Determine Power Capacity? No
We need to view the complete power chain
Server Cabinet
Rack PDU A
Rated at 240 Volts,
32 Amps
Electrical Outlet
Rated at 240 Volts, 32 Amps
PS1
Server 1
Server 2
Server 3
Server 4
PS1
Max Real-time
Power Load 24

11. Power Chain Diversity Explained
Rack PDU B
Panel B1
Panel A2
Source B: 300 KW UPS
Source A: 300 KW UPS
PDU Breaker Panel A1
- Main Breaker = 250 Amps
Total 1-Pole 32 Amps Breakers = 48
Panel A1
Panel A2
To Cabinets 49 thru 96
Electrical Outlet
32 Amp, 240 Volts
Cabinet 2
Cabinet 48
Cabinet 1
Rack PDU A
Input: 32 Amps
Fuse: 4 x 16 Amps
Sockets: 6 x 16 Amps/Fuse

12. Power Chain Diversity – Power Chain B Failure
Cabinet 1
Cabinet 2
Electrical Outlet
32 Amps, 240 Volts
Rack PDU A
Input: 32 Amps
Fuse: 4 x 16 Amps
Sockets: 6 x 16 Amps / Fuse
PDU Breaker Panel A1
- Main Breaker = 250 Amps
Total 1-Pole 32 Amps Breakers = 48
Panel A1
Source A: 300 KW UPS
In Example 2 – Chain B Failure
Rack PDU A rating is 32 Amps
8 Amps appears available
But when you sum up all 48 rack PDU A‘s, the total load in panel A1 is now 512 Amps (worst case phase)
Panel main breaker is only 250 Amps
Not enough capacity in panel A1
Panel A1 main breaker will trip

13. Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
So What is the Solution?
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
Systems

14. Making the Data Center Green
Part of the Green Data Center Initiative
Efficiency
Energy Efficiency
Layer 4: Automate
Informed Decision
Trending Analysis
Recommend
Predictive
Provisioning
Layer 3: Intelligent Management
Change Management
Provisioning
Processing and Visualization
Visualization of physical and logical configuration
Layer 2: Operational Management
Data Collection
Servers, Storage, & Network Devices
Power +
Environmental + Space
Layer 1: Tracking and Measurement 14

15. What is a DCIM System?
Beyond Asset Tracking: Enable visualization, tracking and management of all data center assets and their related physical and logical resources including structured cable plant, networks, power infrastructure, and cooling
A Holistic Approach: Bridge the organizational and functional gaps across all domains including facilities, networking, and systems domains
A Single Pane of Glass: Used by all data center domains and groups regardless of hierarchy including managers, system administrators, and technicians
A Single Repository: A single database to house all data from across all data centers and sites
Process Driven: A change management system by which you can provision new systems and all their related physical and logical resources
A DCIM system becomes the gate through which you will enter the data center to affect physical changes

16. A DCIM system bridges the gap between facilities and IT
What is a DCIM System?
A DCIM system bridges the gap between facilities and IT

17. Key Components of a DCIM System?
Visualization
Data center floor plan (bird’s eye view)
Racks
Servers and devices
Structured cabling and power infrastructure
Power and data ports
Power and data circuits
Asset Tracking
Capacity Planning
Provisioning
Assignment of new systems and their related resources
Moves, adds, and changes (MACs)
Change Management
Requests
Reviews and approvals
Work orders
Real-time SNMP Monitoring
Reporting and Dashboards

18. The Bird’s Eye View Dynamic Floor Map Capacity Planning
Ability to view data center floor map views dynamically
Enhancement: Real-time links to existing Visio and AutoCAD floor plan drawings
Capacity Planning
Dynamic color coded plans
Space planning
Environmental planning
Power planning
Granular Drill Down
Cascading drill down to granular details including devices, ports, and circuits

19. Real-time Thermal Mapping19

20. The Result – Single Version of the Truth
A centralized real-time views of floor plans, cabinets, ports and connections.
Automated change management; reduce costs; comply with audits
Cabling, IP subnets, VLANs, servers, rack PDUs, breaker panels, UPS, etc.
Visualize
Manage
Track

21. “The Ecosystem” - It all has to work together to realize economies
IT Admins
DC Operations
DC Manager/Facilities
Facilities
3rd Party Systems
Trouble Ticketing,
CMDB,
Network Mgmt,
Reporting,
Workflow, BMS, Billing
IT Equipment Lifecycle Management
Data Center Asset, Visualization, Change, Capacity, Operations Management
Data Center Energy Management
Building Management
SNMP, Web Services, ODBC
HTTPS, IPMI, RDP, SSH, SMASH CLP, SNMP, WMI, Modbus, BACNet
IT Equipment
Power Distribution, Cooling, and Environment/Building Controls