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Consolidate, Virtualize and Energize A Green Information Technology Data Center for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

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Consolidate, Virtualize and Energize

A Green Information Technology Data Center for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

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Project teamLori Schmidt-Project Manager

Lisa Neuttila-Project Administrator

Matt Dorner-Project Technical Coordinator

Lewis Muaka-Project Designer

MNSCU-Project Owner

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OverviewMonitoring and MeasuringGreen IT CertificationVirtualization of ServersDesign layoutsAlternative EnergySummary

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Background

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities currently has 32 colleges and universities in its system. Each college has its own IT data center.

MNSCU faced a proposed reduction in state funding. This project focused on designing and implementing a standardized Green IT data center.

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Project GoalsConsolidate current information technology services into

a more energy efficient system

Reduce cost of energy and receive a good return on

investment in new equipment

Allow MNSCU to be a proactive leader in the state by

reducing energy consumption

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Project GoalsIncorporate alternative energy to help reduce

energy costs

Implement server virtualization to use current server resources more efficiently

Reduce energy consumption by 5% in the first phase and 10% by project completion

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Timeline3/2011

• Project approval

• Monitoring and measuring in place

9/2011

• Awareness program written and implemented

1/2012

• Active directory use has been reviewed and implemented

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Timeline

9/20126/2012

•Implement Solar

•MNSCU IT employees have obtained Green IT Certification

1/2013

•End Phase 1

•Energy consumption should be reduced

by 5%

1/2015

•Major datacenter changes made to increase virtualization

3/2016

•Project complete (total reduction of 10%)

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Monitoring and Measuring“You cannot improve what you cannot measure”

Use of Measuring software• Entuity-Eye of the Storm• 75% compliance of users in turning off

devices• $1.5 million savings after two years

Use of Active Directory• Additional $500,000 savings

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Green IT Certification

Selected MNSCU IT employees certified in Green IT during Phase I of project

CompTIA Strata Certificate

These employees maintain contact with our project group to discuss their observations at the ground level help craft strategies for promoting Green IT

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Virtualizing ServersMicrosoft Server 2008 x64 R2 OS

Virtualization provided by Intel VT + Microsoft Hyper-V

Replace current Pentium-4 era Xeon servers with fewer, more modern 4-core Intel servers (Socket 1366)

Each server to have redundant features (Redundant PS, RAID)

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Virtualizing ServersReduce datacenters from 12 servers to 3

Storage can be updated based on needs of the datacenter

Overall hardware savings of $768,000 (project end)

Overall energy savings of $384,000 (project end)

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Data Center (Building Layout)

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APC by Schneider ElectricInfraStruXure Data Center Architecture

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InfraStruXure Management SW

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RACK MODULES

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APC Eco-Breeze Cooling SystemA modular indirect evaporative and air-to-air heat exchanger cooling solution.

http://www.itrportal.com/absolutenm/templates/article power.aspx?articleid=6633&zoneid=60

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EcoBreeze has the ability to switch automatically between air-to-air and indirect evaporative heat exchange

The design of the EcoBreeze is able to reduce energy consumption by leveraging temperature differences between outside ambient air, compared to IT return air, to provide economized cooling to the data center

EcoBreeze

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Solar Alternative Clean Energy Source

By Phillips Eco Enterprise Center

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Solar MountingsOn Roof Tops

Building codes allowing, solar panels will be mounted on rooftops

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Parking LotsAnother alternative is using parking lots which the solar panels can double up as shades for cars

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Expected Savings from Solar Energy

- System Cost: $1,000,000- Percent of Energy offset: 96%- Rebates Generated: $450,000annually for the first 5 years- Electricity cost saved in first year:$200,000- Total Savings to the General

Fund over 5 Years: $4,000,000

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Summary

Overall energy savings approximately $9,000,000 at project completion

30 % energy reduction at project completion, exceeding our goal of 10%

Standardized data centers increase flexibility of staffing, and ease system management

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Future Recommendations

Enhanced online education

Mobile technology voucher

Consolidate 32 data centers into 10 regional data centers

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Google Groups

Sharing documents and ideas

Microsoft Office Visio Data center design Server rack design Switch rack design

Technology Resources

• Skype • For communication

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Web Sources www.ibm.com

www.gartner.com

www.greengrid.com

www.finance.mnscu.edu

http://storageioblog.com

www.ohio.edu/technology/news/2009/upload/Virt_GreenIT_OU.pdf

www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Education/Textbook-IT-Technologies-Key-to-Educational-Facilities-169966/