Environment - Power & Cooling

HP Thermal Quick Assessment Service

Provides: A base-level assessment of your Data Centre cooling, based on interviews with your staff and HP observations of your Data Centre and cooling environment.

Best For: Existing data centers that need to become more efficient due to an increase in power consumption and heat generation in the Data Centre due to higher computing densities.

The HP Thermal Assessment Services are designed to:

Help you determine the potential capacity of your Data Centre environment and plan for adding new equipment to the facility.
Help you gain a better understanding of space, power, and cooling resource requirements.
Help you understand the thermal effect of changes to your environment.
Provide guidance on the placement of IT equipment.
Recommend potential strategies and best practices to help improve the operating efficiency of your facility infrastructure.

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HP Comprehensive Thermal Assessment Services

Provides: A supplement to the HP Thermal Quick Assessment Service with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling and optional Thermal Zone mapping (TZM), which HP uses to model the probable effects of potential cooling improvements or the addition of new equipment to your facility.

Best For: Developing effective and efficient cooling strategies for locating high density IT equipment and to help understand thermal effects of existing IT equipment within the Data Centre.

The HP Thermal Assessment Services are designed to:

Help you determine the potential capacity of your Data Centre environment and plan for adding new equipment to the facility.
Help you gain a better understanding of space, power, and cooling resource requirements.
Help you understand the thermal effect of changes to your environment.
Provide guidance on the placement of IT equipment.
Recommend potential strategies and best practices to help improve the operating efficiency of your facility infrastructure.
Leverage thermal modeling tools and techniques to help you develop effective and efficient cooling strategies for high-density IT equipment.
Optional Thermal Zone Mapping is an analysis that graphically represents the area influenced by each air-conditioning unit in your facility. This insight may help you more effectively locate mission-critical equipment in locations influenced by multiple air-conditioning units, potentially protecting you from the effects of overheating due to mechanical failures.

HP Energy Efficiency Analysis Service

Provides: Efficiency management of your facilities by calculating baseline energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emission metrics; identifying the mechanical, electrical, and operational issues in your facilities that affect their energy efficiency; and providing recommendations and actions you can take to potentially improve your facility efficiency.

Best For: Energy costs savings, greenhouse gas emissions management, high-power-density equipment maintenance and improving the energy efficiency of your IT facilities.

The HP Energy Efficiency Analysis Services are designed to:

Provide tangible metrics of your Data Centre facility’s energy efficiency.
Provides power efficiency benchmarking data of your facility in comparison with other facilities.
Determines the carbon footprint of your facility.
The Assessment can then help establish a baseline, which can be used as a reference for future performance analysis and change management.
Helps identify mechanical and electrical sources of inefficiency.
Identifies operational and maintenance practices that may affect energy efficiency.
Builds understanding of mechanical and electrical best practices that can increase energy efficiency.
Outlines mechanical and electrical concepts that may improve efficiency with associated high-level cost-benefit analysis.

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HP Basic Capacity Survey Service

Provides: Quantitative capacity and availability information that can help managers allocate facility infrastructure resources more effectively.

Best For: Facility and IT managers who face the combined challenge of understanding their facility's power and cooling capacities, the extent to which those capacities are currently being utilized and how those factors influence facility reliability.

The HP Basic Capacity Survey Service can help you:

Define the business strategy driving your need for data center availability.
Benchmark your facility against availability classification tier-level standards.
Understand your potential for downtime and the related costs which help to justify Data Centre improvements.
Understand the electrical and cooling capacities of your Data Centre facility.
Compare your current electrical and cooling loads with your facility’s total capacity to identify problem areas.
Identify gaps in availability requirements.
Easily compare strengths and weaknesses of multiple sites through effective benchmarking using a standard process and evaluation tool.

HP Infrastructure Condition andCapacity Analysis Service

Provides: An understanding of your availability needs and how your facility infrastructure matches those needs by providing a system-by-system evaluation of the critical infrastructure systems in your facility.

Best For: Mission-critical systems and applications exposed to availability risks if the Data Centre facilities, and the supporting facility infrastructure systems that house them, are not designed, operated, and maintained with the same reliability expectations.

The HP Infrastructure Condition and Capacity Analysis Service can help you:

Benchmark your facility against availability classification tier-level standards.
Understand the electrical and cooling capacities of your Data Centre facility.
Compare your current electrical and cooling loads with your facility’s total capacity.
Identify single points of failure that may affect overall facility availability.
Understand the condition of your facility infrastructure systems and the robustness of your operating processes relative to your availability expectations.
Identify vulnerability to human error caused downtime.
Determine priorities for improving the overall reliability of the facility.

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For more information, please call us on +44 (0) 1494 792002 or email us at consulting@richardsoneyres.co.uk

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