Reducing Storage Power Consumption

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Reducing Storage Power Consumption
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What Customers Are Facing

• Issues
• Power
• Space
• Heating/Cooling
• Longevity
• Reliability, Integrity

• Drivers
• Regulatory
• Multiple Copies
• Internet
• Source-points
• Data never goes away

Explosive Date Growth/RequirementsChallenging
The Infrastructure of All Industries
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Explosive Growth In Information
Growth in Data Stored 2006 2010, Exabytes

• Information Explosion
• Most of growth unstructured data
• Power becoming largest component of TCO
• Wont be able to build DCs fast enough

Source IDC, Digital Universe, 2007
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The Energy ChallengeA Balancing Act
Power

• Rack 2Kw to 30 Kw ( 18 months )
• 1Kw in 1Kw out
• Pushing datacenter limits

Heat Cooling

• Lower MTBF
• System instability
• Unhappy customers

Availability
Reliability
Cost

• 38 of total budget today
• Cost rising dramatically
• Will slow growth long term

Managing Growth
Social Responsibility

• Growing corp. imperative
• Social responsibility tangible bus. benefits
  (ie lower TCO)

Carbon Footprint
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The Data Proliferation Problem
Original Data
Copies
Backup
12-15 TB
Test Dev
ProductionData
10-15 TB
Application
DR
3-5 TB
1 TB
DecisionSupport
Archive/Compliance
1-2 TB
1-2 TB
1 TB original
25-40 TB copies
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Data Center Economics
Typical Data Center Power Usage
Additional Costs

• Building New DC (10Ms)
• Upgrading utility service (1Ms)
• Upgrading HVAC capacity (100Ks)
• And more

IT Load
HVAC
Servers
Storage
Other

• Power Bills
• Capital Costs
• Build Out Costs

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Economics - Continued
Worldwide IT Spending on Servers, Power and
Cooling, and Management/Administration
Typ. Storage Electricity Costs
Source IDC, Workloads 2006 (2007)
Power Adds Up 10 PB 1.1M/yr in Power!
Power will soon rival Server acq.
330 W/shelf, 8736 hours/year, 0.13/KWh, 2x
for HVAC, 500 GB SATA
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What Can You Do Today?8-Step Storage Power Diet

• Consolidate servers and storage
• Use higher capacity drives
• Protect against disk failures using fewer drives
• Migrate data to more efficient storage
• Increase utilization
• A-SIS De-duplication
• Backups do more with less
• Eliminate storage overhead for test and dev
• Measure your power efficiency

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Potential Savings From Key LeversIllustrative
Your Mileage May Vary
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Power Consumption Per Usable GBTypical
Enterprise Archival Solutions
Measure Watts per Useable TB!
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Summary

• Runaway Data ? Runaway power and space issues
• Lots you can do TODAY
• Critical issue for NetApp/ Our Customers

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Back Up
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Case Study NetApp IT

• Goals
• Avoid 5M datacenter expansion,
• Increase storage utilization
• Lower TCO
• Improve reliability

• Solution
• Leverage Data ONTAP 7G, FlexVol, and FAS 980
  systems to consolidate storage and increase
  utilization
• Benefits
• 60 improvement in storage utilization
• Reduced storage systems from 50 to10
• Deleted gt27TB of data
• 80 power reduction
• Storage footprint from 25 to 6 racks
• Decrease heat load of 93 tons of A/C
• 59,305 annual power cost reduction