Extending SAP® Carbon Impact OnDemand and …...White Paper SAP Co-Innovation Lab. Kevin Liu, David Cruickshank, Timo Stelzer, and Jim Davis EXTENDING SAP® CARBON IMPACT ONDEMAND

White Paper SAP Co-Innovation Lab

.

EXTENDING SAP® CARBON IMPACT ONDEMAND AND SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS EXPLORER™ INTO DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT RUN A LEANER AND GREENER DATA CENTER WITH ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Authors/Editors: SAP Kevin Liu, David Cruickshank, Timo Stelzer, and Jim Davis Sentilla Corporation Eddie White, Andrew Redfern, and Anna Luo April 1, 2011 Version 1

EXTENDING SAP® CARBON IMPACT ONDEMAND AND SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS EXPLORER™ INTO DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT 2

Content 1 Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 3 2 The Challenge .......................................................................................................................................... 3 3 Proof of Concept ...................................................................................................................................... 5 3.1 SAP Co-Innovation Lab .............................................................................................................................. 5 3.2 POC Goals ................................................................................................................................................. 5 3.3 POC Landscape Configuration ................................................................................................................... 5 3.4 Hardware and Software Configuration ........................................................................................................ 6 3.5 POC Results .............................................................................................................................................. 6 3.6 Integration with SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand ......................................................................................... 10

4 Key Learning ............................................................................................................................................. 15


1 Executive Summary To help today’s CIOs deliver more services while managing costs in a sustainable environment, Sentilla and SAP have conducted a proof-of-concept (POC) test of Sentilla Energy Manager with the SAP® Carbon Impact OnDemand solution and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer™ software at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto, California. The POC demonstrates Sentilla’s strength in delivering real-time visibility of all data center assets – across IT and facilities – by feeding information into SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer on when, where, and how energy is used in data centers. With this insight, CIOs will be empowered to optimize existing data center performance, increase or reclaim capacity, reduce risk, and lower cost and carbon footprint. The POC uses Sentilla Energy Manager 3.0, SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand 5.0, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer 5.0, and a defined set of servers, storage, network, and facilities equipment and appliances. The results from the POC demonstrate to SAP customers that the combined SAP and Sentilla solutions can extend the use of both the SAP solutions for sustainability (SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand) and business intelligence solutions (SAP BusinessObjects Explorer) into the data center. Leveraging SAP and Sentilla software, CIOs gain visibility into operating expenses, energy performance, carbon impact, capacity, and service efficiency in the data center. Additionally, CIOs will be able to measure, analyze, and manage the data center energy capacity and carbon consumption, achieving not only carbon footprint reduction but also lower energy consumption and cost – by 25% or more.

2 The Challenge Today’s enterprises have made long-standing investments in applications and business intelligence to drive every aspect of their business decisions, from market analysis and competitive positioning to supply-chain management and running back-office operations. Almost all of these external and internal functions are data driven. The current trend has led to an exponential increase in IT demand, resulting in constrained data center capacity and uncontrolled growth of data center energy costs. The pressure, of course, on CIOs and CFOs is to deliver increased services while managing costs. Today, new pressure comes from the requirement for sustainability – that is, do more, manage costs, and reduce carbon footprint, all at the same time. In the last decade, enterprises have integrated various forms of business intelligence to address the challenge of optimizing corporate processes to achieve financial results. The data center has been immune to this financial scrutiny in past policies, but modern approaches now treat IT as a service provided to the business. Today’s economic climate, plus increasing demand to operate sustainably, necessitates sustainable and cost-effective modernization of the data center. How do enterprises balance operational needs while managing costs and implementing green strategies that drive a lower carbon footprint?


2.1 The Paradox: Marginal business intelligence about data – the biggest consumer of energy

The enterprise is rife with applications and business intelligence that are driven by data centers – the largest and still exponentially growing consumers of energy. And yet, there is little or no visibility into the energy performance and financial impacts of the data center itself. In short, the data center drives business information for the enterprise, and yet the enterprise has no financial visibility into the very large data center energy costs and associated sustainability impacts. 2.2 SAP and Sentilla extend enterprise business intelligence into the data center

SAP and Sentilla have integrated their products to provide an innovative, industry-first solution that provides comprehensive financial visibility, energy performance, carbon impact, capacity management, and service efficiency in the data center. SAP is the world leader in delivering business applications and intelligence. SAP BusinessObjects Explorer provides deep analysis of data processes to deliver operational and strategic intelligence that aligns with the enterprise’s objectives. SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand simplifies and automates the process of carbon reporting and the creation of financial project tracking and business cases. Sentilla Energy Manager (SEM) is a software solution that takes a holistic approach to data center asset management, bridging facilities and IT. In addition to infrastructure, SEM uses energy as a proxy to measure application performance. SEM Application Tracking™ is the world’s first software that tracks and predicts application performance and energy use in both virtual and dedicated environments. With application tracking, CIOs will have insight into the growth, efficiency, cost, and impact of each application. They can deliver more services to the business in a cost-effective manner that also reduces carbon emissions. To make effective decisions about how to meet increasing demand, CIOs need to benchmark the applications – both for their efficiency (as most apps are overprovisioned) and for their cost and resources – for example, what will we need to expand, how much will it cost us, and how much are we paying now? Sentilla Application Tracking reveals:

• The cost and power impact of running each application • The efficiency or utilization of the application’s resources – CPU, disks, virtual machines, and so

forth • A prediction of how much resources the application will require in the future

With the Sentilla Energy Manager application tracking functionality, CIOs are able to buy exactly what they need for expansion, so that they can operate within existing capacity as long as possible. It also gives them a way to call out which user groups are efficient and which are not, and put in place programs to reclaim any “stranded” capacity.


3 Proof of Concept 3.1 SAP Co-Innovation Lab

Sentilla collaborates with SAP to develop and execute the POC at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto, California. SAP’s global network of labs accelerates innovation of SAP-related solutions by providing SAP partners with lab resources and access to leading-edge and prerelease software and hardware. This methodology helps increase the value customers derive from their SAP software deployments and encourages co-development of solutions with SAP partners. 3.2 POC Goals

Provide sophisticated data center energy and carbon measurement, analysis, and key performance indicators for SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Analyze the carbon and energy data from a data center and present the data to a user/CIO in financial and business terms

Provide a visual representation of the data center to show lower energy consumption and carbon emissions

3.3 POC Landscape Configuration

The SAP Co-Innovation Lab is configured like a collocation data center, where a number of different customers use the space to host and run their applications. Just days after the POC implementation, Sentilla showed significant results with data aggregated from all the equipment in the lab, including storage, network, servers, and cooling. This data provides SAP with a holistic view of data center performance, enabling SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to help optimize this environment’s performance.


Fig. 1. SAP Co-Innovation Lab Customer Landscape

3.4 Hardware and Software Configuration

• Starline E-MonD facility power via OPC 30 meters including power, apparent power, reactive power, current, frequency, and voltage

• Cisco Catalyst via Telnet 6 power meters

• Cisco Catalyst via SNMP 47 meters including 1 current meter, 8 power meters, and 34 temperature meters

• NetApp via SNMP 10 meters including power, number of disks, network transmission counts, and CPU utilization,

among others • HP ProLiant blade servers via iLO2 12 meters including power and temperatures (ambient, CPU, memory, storage, and system) among

others

3.5 POC Results

3.5.1 Analytics directly from Sentilla Dashboard at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab


Fig. 2. SEM Main Dashboard Overview: key energy performance metrics for the last 30 days


Fig. 3. SEM Main Dashboard Overview: comparison of key metrics over a 3-month period. The “March” metrics are forecasts based on data from the prior two months.

Fig. 4. SEM Main Dashboard Overview: metrics showing overall data center consumption while highlighting the IT and HVAC consumption breakdown


Fig. 5. SEM Main Dashboard Overview: asset-level visibility of any selected IT assets and infrastructure

Fig. 6. Drill down to consumption by Starline, CRAC, and Storage


3.6 Integration with SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand

Fig. 7. SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand Configuration UI


Fig. 8. SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand Facility Dashboard: electricity consumption and CO2 impact for all data center assets


3.6.1 Integration with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Fig. 9. SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand Dashboard: visibility into data center consumption by time, location, applications, IT, and facilities, down to functions such servers, storage, PDU, networking, and lights


Fig. 10. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard: a comparison of actual and maximum capacity at a specific facility over a four-month period


4 Key Learning This POC demonstrates to SAP customers that the combined SAP and Sentilla solution extends the value of both the SAP solutions for sustainability (SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand) and business intelligence solutions (SAP BusinessObjects Explorer) into the data center. Leveraging SAP and Sentilla, CIOs will be able to increase power capacity while reducing energy bills and carbon footprint. Key benefits of the joint solution include:

Extensive visibility into when, where, and why energy is used, which allows CIOs to proactively manage capacity and understand changes in power demand caused by service and equipment characteristics

Greater utilization of existing equipment and personnel, by increasing system utilization and automating manually performed tasks

Showback/chargeback capabilities for the CIOs: with strong analytics software to increase their awareness of data center energy consumption, CIOs are not only able to reduce overall energy consumption but can also allocate energy costs to those lines of business or customers that are using the power

More than 25% immediate energy savings in operations expenses and deferral of millions of dollars in capital expenses, as CIOs will be able to delay building new data centers, colocation space, and cloud contracts as a result of reclaimed capacity for power and space

The net net: With visibility into data center performance, and with the ability to predict and reduce power consumption, CIOs can reduce energy cost and carbon footprint while increasing capacity. They can achieve a more sustainable data center operation by delivering more IT services with what they already have – with lower cost and reduced carbon emissions.


© 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

SAP, R/3, SAP NetWeaver, Duet, PartnerEdge, ByDesign, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, StreamWork, and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and other countries.

Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Crystal Decisions, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius, and other Business Objects products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects Software Ltd. Business Objects is an SAP company.

Sybase and Adaptive Server, iAnywhere, Sybase 365, SQL Anywhere, and other Sybase products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. Sybase is an SAP company.

All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. Data contained in this document serves informational purposes only. National product specifications may vary.

These materials are subject to change without notice. These materials are provided by SAP AG and its affiliated companies ("SAP Group") for informational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kind, and SAP Group shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials. The only warranties for SAP Group products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty.

Documents

Extending SAP® Carbon Impact OnDemand and …...White Paper SAP Co-Innovation Lab. Kevin Liu, David Cruickshank, Timo Stelzer, and Jim Davis EXTENDING SAP® CARBON IMPACT ONDEMAND