HP have a key set of “converged-ready” products (servers, storage, networking, management), which provide great cost and business benefits, but an area often overlooked is the Green element. The HP Data Centre Smart Grid is a core architectural element of the Converged Infrastructure that is equally important when evaluating your infrastructure convergence strategy. You can’t gain the full value of convergence without having an intelligent, energy-aware environment that spans products, IT, and facilities in order to optimise and reduce energy use, reclaim facility capacity and reduce energy costs.
So we thought we would take just a minute and highlight some of the areas that you might want to check out as you design your IT strategy:
- HP Thermal Logic embedded technology is designed to reduce energy, reclaim capacity, and extend the life of your data centre. The portfolio features Sea of Sensors that provide up to 32 sensors that can adjust fan speeds and powers only the slots that are in use.HP ProLiant Servers with Thermal Logic Technology often lead the pack for being Energy Star Qualified and the new ProLiant G6 server line reduces energy usage by 50% compared to HP’s previous generation servers (G5).
- HP Data Centre Environmental Edge is an affordable approach to monitoring data centre environments by visualising, analysing and measuring environmental parameters to bridge the gap between IT and Facilities. This deeper insight leads to a slew of power and cooling cost saving opportunities.
- HP Insight Control power management with Dynamic Power Capping can reclaim trapped power and cooling capacity – as much as a £28 million for a typical 1 megawatt data centre while providing real-time, 24/7 information on actual power consumption. This provides much better control over costs and energy usage by dynamically capping power usage and providing deeper understanding of the cost of powering and cooling servers.
- HP Critical Facilities Services can help you optimise energy efficiency and systems performance by analysing your key business metrics and then developing innovative engineering design solutions.
- HP Data Centre Transformation Energy & Space Efficiency solutions can optimise your floor space to avoid or defer new facilities construction and support more computing resources per watt and meter. This can be achieved while reducing energy costs and power management requirements.
So there you have it, some of the Greener elements of HP Converged Infrastructure.