The Right Tools for Effective
Data Center Reliability and
Efficiency Monitoring
Lee Featherstonefor Jim Plourde, International Institute of for Jim Plourde, International Institute of Sustainable Laboratories
Reliability and Metering
●Mandated Energy savings are driving decision in Data Centers today
●Energy savings can not reduce reliability and availability
●Systems that improve reliability bring the added benefit of energy metering for M&V and an important view into system operation
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Improving reliability
●Reduce Outages,
●Shorten Duration of outages
●Maintenance alert and management
●Energy reduction through System knowledge
● Inclusion of MOP’s
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● Inclusion of MOP’s
Engineering Aspects of Energy Usage
●Preventing Outages
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Engineering Aspects of Energy Usage
●Power Quality Monitoring Can help
●Understand the affect of Voltage excursions on sensitive equipment
●Minimize the frequency of unplanned outages
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Swell
Sag
Nominal Voltage
Engineering Aspects of Energy Usage
• Power Quality monitoring can help you minimize the duration of unplanned outages
• Meters determine direction to fault
• Waveforms documented for forensic analysis• Time Stamps aligned and recorded for Sequence of Event and Root Cause Analysis
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Engineering Aspects of Energy Usage•Sequence of Event Monitoring
•Uses Satellite time signal to synchronize all devices in system
•Allows root cause analysis for outages
•Reduces downtime when an unplanned outage occurs
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Circuit
Monitors
Protective
Relays
I/O for Status
AlarmsOther Devices
Engineering Aspects of Energy Usage•Power Quality monitoring can help you understand the affects of
harmonics on your electrical distribution system
• High frequency voltage components increase the losses in the core of AC motors and transformers and can have a significant affect on operating temperature
• Harmonics can create torsional oscillation in motor shafts resulting in harmful vibration
• Harmonics can damage capacitor banks
• Harmonic resonance can cause significant damage to an electrical distribution system
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Include MOP’s in your system
●When an alarm occurs let the system point your operator toward the required response
●Embed important document in system
●Let the operator see important metrics so they understand the operations performance
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Benefits of the system
●Metering for reliability gives you usage data
●SER points provide status for operation metrics and analytics
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Energy Management Program
Energy Management strategy: 1
●Step 1: Make Commitment
●Step 2: Assess Performance
●Step 3: Set Goals
●Step 4: Create Action Plan
●Step 5: Implement Action Plan
●Step 6: Evaluate Progress
SetGoals
Assess
Performance
Make
Commitment
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●Step 6: Evaluate Progress
●Step 7: Recognize Achievements CreateAction Plan
Rev
iew
ImplementAction Plan
EvaluateProgress
RecognizeAchievements
Important points gained from Monitoring
system
●Graphical Interface must be styled to provide effective
●System must provide value beyond monitoring
●Graphics
●O&M’s
● Instructional data
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● Instructional data
●Operational Metrics
●Efficiency Metrics
●Analytics