Cloud Data Center Chinese Broadcasting Services Company Optimizing Remote Server Cooling And Management Case Study
Intel® DCM delivers significant annual savings by reducing on-site visits,
lowering cooling costs and gaining better visibility into server capacity
Business: China Cable Television Network Co.,
LTD, is a subsidiary of China Central
Television.
Challenges • Remote access and cross-platform support
• Aggregated control
• Real-time server health monitoring
• Power and thermal ...data collection
• IT device power (PDU, UPS, Network, Storage)
• Cooling Analysis
• Alerting and aggregated control to gain impact visibility into Computer Room Air
Conditioning (CRAC) hotspots
Solution • Intel® Data Center Manager
Executive Summary
China Cable installed Intel® Data Center Manager (Intel® DCM) at its new WuQing
District data center facility, located in Tianjin, China. The solution was deployed
across 1,300 devices to gain greater insight into the facility’s server utilization
and cooling efficiency. The company’s IT operations team is based in Beijing,
approximately 50 miles away.
The China Cable company installed Intel® DCM in its newly built data center to
gain thermal and power visibility into its 300-rack operation. These servers have
Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
capability. Intel® DCM provided the China Cable IT operations team a cross-platform view
of their servers. The ability to remotely monitor the thermal health of individual
servers and subcomponents led to a reduction of additional IT staff and man-hours
associated with manual monitoring. With Intel® DCM, the company could reduce
labor by 500 man-hours per year, yielding a savings of $325,000 USD over the next
five years.
Intel® DCM’s ability to deliver device-level power and thermal data also eliminated
the need to purchase intelligent Power Distribution Units (PDUs). Based on the
customer’s current data center environment of 300 racks, the projected savings for
this PDU reduction over five years would be $600,000 USD.
Case Study | Intel® DCM Optimizes Remote Server Cooling And Management Efficiency
Figure 1. Intel® Data Center Manager Console
Intel® DCM was able to further analyze the devices, and
control power and thermal consumption in real-time through
data aggregation as well as optimizing server temperature
levels across multiple platforms. Intel® DCM’s cooling analysis
also enabled data center staff to raise air temperatures in
the data center by 2°C. The rise in air temperatures yielded
a reduction in cooling costs and improved Power Usage
Effectiveness (PUE), resulting in increased energy efficiency
would result in a five-year savings of $204,982 USD.
The Intel® DCM deployment results indicated a reduction in
the annual cooling costs of the data center by $23,609 USD
annually, with a cumulative savings of $118,944 USD over five
years.
Background The Beijing-based IT operation team for China Cable selected
Intel® DCM and immediately installed the solution to remotely
access and assess the energy consumption and temperatures
of their 1,300 servers in the newly built WuQing data center
operation. Intel® DCM Console offers ease of use, aggregated control
and granular health monitoring. It is a software product to
monitor, manage and optimize the energy consumption and
temperature of data center servers. China Cable accessed
server nodes using DCM and began to compile and aggregate
data from the servers.
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Case Study | Intel® DCM Optimizes Remote Server Cooling And Management Efficiency
Intel® DCM Provides Remote Access and Real-Time Power
and Thermal Data Collection
Traditionally, on-site data center operators need to check
server LEDs one-by-one, requiring additional man-hours and
increasing labor costs. Intel® DCM, with its
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