Fujitsu siemens Data Center Efficiency Assessment User Manual

Data Center Efficiency Assessment
OPTIMIZATION Services

Issue

August 2009

Pages

2

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Introduction

OPTIMIZATION Services from Fujitsu offer efficient consultation packages for existing infrastructure environments at a fixed
price. This has been made possible by systematically analyzing a large number of successfully implemented consultation
projects. The solution methods used have been standardized and combined with the experience of the comprehensive product
and solution skills provided by the Fujitsu group.
The resulting first-class consultation and analysis packages quickly provide customers with specific information and suggested
improvements for the infrastructure involved.

Data Center Efficiency Assessment

Considerable investments are made in data centers but the
infrastructure frequently does not meet the demands of IT
operations. The Data Center Efficiency Assessment is used
to clearly assess all the factors which affect the security,
reliability and energy efficiency of your IT operations, and
to make qualified recommendations for optimization
measures which will increase the security and efficiency of
your data center. In addition, the service also takes into
account the economic viability of any recommendations
made, to ensure maximum cost-effectiveness for your
operations.

Customer Requirements

 Uncover and eliminate any unknown dangers in your

data center infrastructure and operations (security
gaps, safety hazards)

 Identify compliance issues with relevant corporate and

legal requirements

 Understand how your IT infrastructure reacts to

changes caused by external events and how your
personnel and processes are equipped to deal with
specific situations

 Requirement to develop Secure IT operations
 Requirement to optimize security, quality and energy

efficiency to meet current and future company needs

Customer Benefits

This service delivers information and recommendations in
the following areas:

 Energy usage information of the data center
 Power Usage effectiveness (PUE)
 Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE)
 Mechanical & Electrical redundancy
 Current risks and areas of low efficiency
 Audit of downtime risks and recommended measures to

reduce them

 Recommendations for coordinating and optimizing your

investments using state-of-the-art security standards

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Title

Data Center Efficiency Assessment

Order #

CPS:IT-ICN-11014F (20m² - 50m² floor space)
CPS:IT-ICN-11015F (51m² -120m² floor space)
CPS:IT-ICN-11016F (121m² - 250m² floor space)
>250m² floor space - on request

Contact

Email: [e-mail]

Figure 1: Energy Usage in the Data Center

Scope of Service

1. Preparation Workshop
There are many potential dangers which can affect IT
operations. In order to optimally align our Data Center

Assessments to your company’s specific needs, we

first clarify beforehand some fundamental questions:
how secure must your IT operations be? Or: how
quickly must your system be available again?
In a workshop with our consultants present the current
technical options for improving the physical security
and energy efficiency of the data center operations
and examples of identified best practices.

2. Analysis of Customer Environment
The next step is an inspection on-site. This is where
Fujitsu consultants identify and analyze possible weak
points in the individual infrastructure areas; the
following are decisive factors, such as

 location (environment, floor-space use)
 Air conditioning and refrigeration systems (air

conditioning, air distribution, air conditioning
supply, re-cooling)

 Fire and smoke protection (fire loads, fire areas,

fire alarm system, sensors, sealing, covers, doors,
extinguishers)

 Power Supply (transformer, cabling, UPS, power

backup equipment, lightning and overvoltage
protection, electromagnetic radiation

 and electromagnetic compatibility [EMC])
 Water supply (piping, drains, rain, surface and

ground water drainage)

 Burglary / theft / sabotage
 Safety devices (access control, threat detection

equipment, alarm, etc.)

 Physical network (server locations, cable routing,

etc.)

3. Customer Report Preparation

Further to the on-site inspection the risk status of your
IT operations are determined and assessed. Based on
your specifications and our assessment results we
develop a catalog of actions specially designed to
meet your requirements. This is all detailed in an
explanatory report and presentation.

4. Presentation of Report & Recommendations

Fujitsu consultants present and discuss the results and
recommendations with you on-site.

Service Conditions

The Customer agrees to the following conditions as pursuant
to the delivery of the service defined. The Customer agrees
to make the following available to Fujitsu:

 Experienced personnel available for the duration of the

service to enable access to inspected areas, provide
answers to specific questions with regard to inspected
items and to deliver customer requirements

 Latest location and floor plans scaled to 1:500, 1:100 or

1:50 made available to Fujitsu in paper format and on
disk as a CAD file in dwg or dxf format for the relevant
areas of investigation

 Relevant current technical installation documentation

and revisions

 Relevant Information of the operation of the current and

future hardware systems.

 Access to observe the current Data Center area to

derive the necessary measurements

 Technical data of supply systems such as electrical

connection with the necessary electrical connection
services, emergency power supply, cooling, alarm and
fault organization, etc.

 Information of currently used IT Equipment
 Information of the electrical power consumption of the

computer equipment if known, or measured from the
electricity supply distribution board

 Suitable rooms with projectors for the workshop
 Where appropriate and agreed, any other relevant data

required in performing the service

Additional Information

The following optional chargeable service modules are
available to you, and can be combined with this service:

1. Hardware Inventory

2. CFD Computer Simulation

Overheating in data centers is a big concern. Diagnosing and
solving potential overheating weak-points using simulation to
understand current situation and evaluate alternative designs
is a very cost-effective alternative to testing various
alternatives in situ. With this service heat distribution and
airflow within the data center can be quickly measured and
reported. Adjustments are then made to the simulation to
assess efficiency improvements. These are then
documented and reported to you.

Ordering and Delivery Information

This Consulting Service can be ordered via your Fujitsu
account manager or the Email contact below.