Abstract
The increasing trends of electrical consumption within data centres are a growing concern for business owners as they are quickly becoming a large fraction of the total cost of ownership. Ultra small sensors could be deployed within a data centre to monitor environmental factors to lower the electrical costs and improve the energy efficiency. Since servers and air conditioners represent the top users of electrical power in the data centre, this research sets out to explore methods from each subsystem of the data centre as part of an overall energy efficient solution. In this paper, we investigate the current trends of Green IT awareness and how the deployment of small environmental sensors and Site Infrastructure equipment optimization techniques which can offer a solution to a global issue by reducing carbon emissions.
Highlights
Recent years have witnessed the continuing development of the Internet from its original communication purpose and content provision (e.g., Web) to an application deployment platform, where increased computing and storage capabilities are constantly being made available to end users
The results of the power consumption were split into two sections; cool air temperature data and warm air temperature data
As a result of the increasing trends in power consumption and discussed a number of measures for efficiency improvements. With these measures divided to either the IT equipment or Site infrastructure subsystem of the DC, it was decided that one of each will be examined for efficiency improvements through direct experimentation
Summary
Recent years have witnessed the continuing development of the Internet from its original communication purpose (e.g., email) and content provision (e.g., Web) to an application deployment platform, where increased computing and storage capabilities are constantly being made available to end users. Sensors 2012, 12 according to a recent Gartner report, as worldwide PC shipments have reached 82.9 million units just in the second quarter of 2010, representing a 20.7% increase from the second quarter of 2009. A recent report from the NRDC [1] confirmed that most idle servers consume approximately 69–97% of the total power consumption when they are fully loaded, and often when power management function is enabled. With energy costs increasing as the size of IT infrastructures continue to grow, it is apparent that keeping the running costs down is quickly becoming a top priority for many IT centric organisations. We will address how to integrate environmental monitoring sensors and the cutting-edge virtualisation technologies to cut power consumption of IT infrastructure
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