The Sun Eco Assessment Services for Datacenter, Basic or Advanced options address existing facility conditions, identify areas in need of improvement, and provide a plan for optimizing energy usage, space utilization, cooling and general environmental conditions. These services help reduce operational costs, and optimize datacenter infrastructure.
Basic Option
The Sun Eco Assessment Service for Datacenter, Basic option covers a targeted group of hardware and is designed to maximize power and cooling efficiency in the IT infrastructure running web-based services.
Advanced Option
Sun Eco Assessment Service for Datacenter, Advanced option covers components in the entire datacenter. The offering provides a comprehensive environmental analysis, focusing on factors that could affect cooling efficiency, space utilization, power consumption and computer systems availability. The Advanced option includes measurement and evaluation of power, space and cooling factors in key areas throughout the datacenter.
Features & Benefits
Features
Benefits
Project plan with existing conditions related to cooling usage and practices
Illustrates how cooling, space, and overall power usage can be applied to improve efficiency throughout the entire datacenter
Site visit to collect information for conducting the evaluation
In addition to collecting data, consultants can make direct observations and recommendations for improvement of the infrastructure
Improvement plans for short-term optimization and long term improvements
Provides the customer with facts based on industry standards and best practices
Identification of opportunities for enhancement
Analyze data and prepare graphical report with report on work elements, findings and observations
Actions based on field-proven best practices.
Facilitates communications between groups
Conducts technical evaluation of data center cooling and energy usage
Lower operational costs to optimize energy budgets
Key Focus Areas of Service Offering
General Site Data & Future Planning: The first step in addressing issues with facility inefficiencies is to understand the current state of your environment. Sun and its partners will conduct a visual examination leverage datacenter best practices, review monitoring capabilities to identify areas of improvement and create future plans.
Cooling & Air Distribution: Maximize utilization of current resources versus investing in new technology. Includes reviewing temperature humidity and relatively of the room, hardware, and data logging; environmental support equipment design and installation assessment; perimeter integrity inspection; and contaminant source inspection.
Energy Distribution, Usage & Quality: Ensure that energy usage and cooling capacity being provided to the power is appropriate and reliable. Service includes electrical and load calculations, electrical infrastructure and grounding review, power quality measurements, and actual equipment power consumptions.
Space & Rack Utilization: Review of all cabinet/rack design and placement assessment, high density areas, and heat density calculations.
The Sun Eco Assessment Service for Data center is delivered using proven best practices and methodologies which are non-disruptive to the data center. All testing is in compliance with standards and regulations. The service includes an on-site visit to the customer's facility.
