Introduction

Energy consumption of data centers

Energy consumption within data centers is an important topic in terms of cost savings and social responsibility. The European Commission is driving energy efficiency through a EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres based on best practices and at country level laws and regulations are prepared and implemented or the industry gets a chance to improve through self-regulation.

Performance indicator

In order to drive and improve efficiency, a Performance Indicator for data centers is required. The current indexes, such as DCiE, EUE and PUE are not sufficient to drive data center efficiency, since it only reflects the power or energy consumption of the facilities. The metric in itself says nothing about how efficient a data center in combination with IT really is.

Open source

The industry (data centers) should be responsible for defining and creating a performance measure. Therefore, Mansystems created and released the world’s first open source Open Data Center Measure of Efficiency (OpenDCME). Adopting this open standard means that you will have a management framework to drive energy efficiency and costs savings in your data center.

Four topics

The model consists of four topics where each topic has four KPI's. Each topic has its own unique focus where the combination of all four spans the facility side of the data center, the IT assets that are installed in that data center up to monitoring capacity parameters and processes that drive (or prevent) energy efficiency. Please proceed to the detailed overview of the model.