ISS Technology Focus, Number 12

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Number 12

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HP Performance

Optimized

Datacenter 240a

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Meet the Expert—

Roger Tipley

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HP Performance Optimized Datacenter 240a

The HP Performance Optimized Datacenter 240a (EcoPOD) is an extremely

efficient, high-performance data center solution. This article summarizes its

IT capacity, power capacity, Adaptive Cooling technology, and management

and monitoring systems. It also illustrates possible energy savings. Future

articles will provide more details about its systems and technologies.

IT capacity

The EcoPOD contains 2,200U of rack space, suitable for 44 50U racks. This

IT capacity is equivalent to a 10,000 ft

(3,048 m

) traditional data center,

but at one-tenth the space. The EcoPOD consists of two 40 ft IT modules

with a common 8-ft-wide (2,438 mm) hot aisle that allows you to easily

remove and service IT equipment (Figure 1-1). Above the IT modules, four

cradles each contain six Direct Expansion (DX) air conditioning units (24

units total).

Figure 1-1. HP Performance Optimized Datacenter 240a

Summary of content (6 pages)

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ISS Technology Focus Number 12 In this issue: HP Performance Optimized Datacenter 240a » HP Performance The HP Performance Optimized Datacenter 240a (EcoPOD) is an extremely efficient, high-performance data center solution. This article summarizes its IT capacity, power capacity, Adaptive Cooling technology, and management and monitoring systems. It also illustrates possible energy savings. Future articles will provide more details about its systems and technologies.
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Power capacity The EcoPOD provides 1.2 MW of redundant power and cooling capacity in closed loop mode. It requires 415V 3Ø power for the IT equipment and 480v 3Ø power for the cooling system. It provides an input power voltage of 240V 3Ø to the racks. Adaptive Cooling technology Adaptive Cooling technology allows the EcoPOD to automatically adjust between one of three operating modes—free air, DX assist, or full DX— based on IT load, policies, and outside temperature.
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0% more energy than the IT equipment consumes. Let’s estimate the energy savings of the EcoPOD compared to a traditional data center with a PUE of 2.4. The energy cost for a traditional data center with a1.26 MW IT load (1.76 MW facility load) is approximately $1.54 million per year based on 10 cents per kilowatt-hour (kW-Hr). At the same IT load but with a facility load ranging from 0.063 MW (PUE=1.05) to 0.378 MW (PUE=1.3), the energy costs of the EcoPOD ranges from $55,200 to $331,000 per year.
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To boot an OS on a UEFI-based system, one of the partitions must be a UEFI system partition containing a FAT32 file system and the boot loader executable programs for one or more OSes. The UEFI system firmware loads the GPT partition table, searches for the UEFI system partition, reads the selected boot loader into memory, and then begins executing it. The boot loader understands the file system of the partition containing the rest of the OS and bootstraps the OS.
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Meet the Expert—Roger Tipley Name: Roger Tipley Title: Engineering Strategist, ISS Years at HP: 23+ University/Degree: Oregon State University, B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1982 U.S. Patents: 18 Roger Tipley is an Engineering Strategist for Industry Standard Servers (ISS) in HP Enterprise Servers, Storage, and Networking (ESSN). Originally from small towns in eastern Oregon and northwest Washington, it’s no surprise that Roger has a passion for energy-efficient and sustainable design practices.
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Emphasizing synergy between technology and the environment Roger says that customers increasingly value HP products based on their sustainable design and manufacturing processes. He is proud that HP is committed to leading the industry in products with excellent sustainability features. In the not-too-distant future, the industry focus will shift from designing products that merely have less environmental impact to designing products based on a Cradle-to-Cradle (waste free) methodology.