Managing the power requirements of your data center equipment and the heat it emits are essential functions. Failure of either will have a significant impact on the performance of your business. To help you do so, the nlyte Datacenter Module models the power and cooling infrastructure within your data center.
Managing the power chain
The nlyte solution provides advanced power management capabilities, allowing you to plan and map the entire power chain. This helps today’s largest data center operations reign in rapidly increasing energy costs, enabling a greener data center and preparing for inevitable legislation mandates.
To address these needs, nlyte provides the following capabilities that provide comprehensive power management for even the most complex environments:
- End-to-end power mapping, from the supplier sub-station’s feed, into the data center, through the Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS), Power Distribution Units (PDUs), generators, static switches and power strips to the servers. This enables data center managers to make better power decisions, forecast power costs more accurately and identify potential risks and opportunities.
- Automated power load algorithms calculate the power impact of any planned or actual Moves, Adds and Changes (MACs) in the data center, with results delivered through detailed and customizable reports.
- Power modeling of data center devices such as air conditioning units can now be included into the overall data center power consumption plan.
- Ability to model the impact of a power failure to the data center infrastructure.
- Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) modeling and reduction allows accurate calculation of the IT Equipment Power (ITEP) side of the PUE equation and visibility into the Total Facility Power (TFP) side, helping a data center achieve a PUE of 2.0 or lower.
The nlyte power chain includes the following infrastructure devices:
- PDU – the PDU asset record nlyte® automatically creates includes a breaker table detailing breaker capacity and individual breaker allocation and configuration. As each breaker is created, nlyte also creates an associated power socket. As a result, the PDU record is related to the UPS record, the breakers on the PDU, the power sockets and all devices connected to the power sockets.
- Industrial power socket – connects a breaker to data center locations to provide a power outlet for consuming equipment. Power strips mounted in cabinets or floor standing equipment are connected and record which industrial power socket is supplying the power.
- Power strip – connects to an industrial power socket and has multiple power outlets from which assets can consume power.
The nlyte suite gives you visibility of the entire power chain allowing you to plan capacity and manage planned and unplanned power outages effectively. Using information about the power capacity of a PDU and the draw against it, you can easily calculate available capacity and the implications of planning for additional equipment.
Managing cooling capacity
nlyte maps the capacity of your air conditioning units and the heat output of your equipment to help you track cooling capacity against cooling requirements in your data center or server room. Using this information you can determine the potential effect of planned installations upon existing active devices to ensure that you do not exceed available cooling capacity. To help you manage heat effectively, nlyte applies power consumption and thermal ratings to each asset from its associated material record.
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