Improving Data Center Efficiency with Intelligent PDUs

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Improving Data Center Efficiency with Intelligent
PDUs

• Ray DSouza

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• Data center efficiency has gained its rightful
  recognition in the past few years. Every now and
  then a new technology rises to the challenge of
  improving the data center efficiency. Let us get
  this cleared before we go ahead what is an
  efficient Data Center? An efficient Data Center
  is one which not only complies with all the
  industry standards, but also it is modular,
  scalable, energy efficient and can work across
  multiple vendors seamlessly.
• A very important feature of an efficient data
  center is its Power Management System. And this
  is where Intelligent PDUs come into picture. The
  increasing need for faster computing, larger data
  storage needs and mission-critical reliability
  has caused priority level of data center power
  efficiency to shoot up to number 1. Not to
  forget, the additional challenges of budget
  constraints. Some of the leading suppliers of
  Intelligent PDUs in India are Netrackindia,
  Numericups, and Raritan.

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• Let me show how Intelligent PDUs help with
  improving Data Center efficiency

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Remote Current Monitoring

• A vital step towards increasing data center
  efficiency is keeping track of the power used by
  every component of the data center. This helps
  the data center manage the power so that a
  component using lesser power is not supplied with
  too much power thus causing it to trip and
  vice versa. This reduces the guesswork that goes
  into estimating which part uses more power and
  which less, thus reducing the chances of damage
  of equipment.

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Scalability

• The traditional data centers used the basic PDUs
  which supply power to the racks. However, with
  the development of efficient equipment, the
  traditional PDUs are no longer applicable because
  they cannot control the power they transmit and
  are not scalable. Plus they are also too
  expensive to change every time, the data center
  expands. Intelligent PDUs are scalable in the
  sense that they are easily adaptable to an
  addition or a removal from the system and can be
  adjusted to supply power accordingly.

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Performance Monitoring

• ?An efficient data center is one which protects
  the equipment it contains by avoiding damage. By
  using Intelligent PDUs, a data center not only
  tracks the power usage of the equipment, it also
  tracks the lack of power supply or usage by the
  equipment. Thus, it can be programmed to alert
  the authorities in case of snags in the power
  supply, thus avoiding damage or reducing it to
  minimum. In case of a power outage, an
  Intelligent PDU can be used to free up power
  resources by maintaining a list of prioritised
  equipment. This optimizes the overall performance
  of the data center.

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Eco-friendly Data Center

• It is common knowledge that equipment within the
  data center tends to heat up, which affects its
  performance. Thus, it is necessary to maintain an
  optimum temperature of the equipment for best
  performance. However, a commonly noted issue with
  data centers is overcooling of the equipment. Too
  much cooling of the equipment causes it to work
  harder than usual to maintain a temperature and
  can drastically reduce the life of the equipment.
  An Intelligent PDU helps track and maintain the
  pre-set optimum temperature of the equipment thus
  improving the overall efficiency of the
  equipment.

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Improved Staff Productivity

• As opposed to the traditional PDU which only
  well distributed power, the Intelligent PDU is
  programmed to monitor power at device level with
  the user-defined threshold values, and alert the
  authorities via email/SMS/SNMP. This helps the
  administrators tackles any issues before they
  become potential hazards causing serious loss of
  revenue, data and reliability to the company.

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• The leading manufacturers and suppliers of PDUs
  in India like Netrackindia have been known to
  produce Intelligent PDUs meeting the industry
  requirements with utmost reliability.