Dell’s Point of View

In view of Sustainability – Partnering for a Green DC

(ever powerful & “power-hungry” semi-conductor chips)
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customers, team members and communities, we
are building a brighter future together.”
- Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies

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Challenges & obstacles
to power/cooling efficiency

In view of Sustainability – Ever powerful & “power-hungry” semi-conductor chips

Power increases drive cooling challenges/obstacles
Processor TDP’s now exceed 300W & trending to As CPU and GPU TDP rises, cooling must
500W by 2025 increase

• Customers want help solving today and tomorrow’s challenges

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General
Rack Power 8

Density 7
Trends

Power density per U [kW/U]

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Guidance on rack power

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density based on
processor power trends.
Uncertainty increases 4
with time.
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When do you have to make a move?
For alternative cooling techniques other than air…

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Other cooling methods
beside air-cooling

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When do you have to
make a move?

VERTIV WHITE PAPER – A Guide to High-Density Cooling

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Efficient Hardware Configuration Optimized Thermals and Cooling Device Power Management Data Center Power Management Optimized Workload Effective Equipment Retirement Green Energy Source

Cooling beyond the CPU / GPU

Thermal Performance
Selection/combination of air & liquid cooling to maximize containment and collective cooling efficiency
Air solutions across site environment to promote use of ambient air to reduce use of energy cooling
Use of liquid at cabinet or rack level maximizing cooling performance where necessary

Data Center Containment Rack Containment

Ambient Air Fresh Air Direct Contact Liquid Cooling Immersion Cooling
Maximize use of hot/cold aisle Hardware operating >°C Closed-loop flow capturing heat Immersion with rack density and
alongside Fresh Air with air circulation systems allow more rack density / lower increased cooling capacity (up to
exchangers power use with performance 95% energy reduction)

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Dell Hybrid Thermal Strategy
Liquid Cooling Standards Development

Hybrid Cooling 100% Heat Capture

• DLC efficiently removes processor heat • Rack enclosures with air circulating through rack scale heat
• Air cooling efficiently removes the rest exchangers enable 100% heat capture to facility warm water

• Plug-and-play cold plates enable modularity • Eliminates complexity (Design, Assembly, Supply Chain)
• Compatibility with silicon options allows later-binding • Improves quality and reliability
• Enables DC-MHS and modular hardware design
• Standards-based design decreases development time
• Cools 100% of IT gear (compute, network, storage, power)
• Hybrid cooling increases serviceability and scalability
• Flexible, scalable, serviceable

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Cooling Technology Comparisons
Direct Liquid Cooling
Air cooling Air + Supplemental Immersion
(DLC)

Cooling Solution
Options

•Traditional air-cooling & •In-row coolers • CPU/GPU Cold-plate loops

Single-phase (1P) and Two-phase (2P)
Products air-handling equipment •Rear Door Heat Exchangers (RDHx) • Rack/facility level DLC products
Immersion tank solutions
•Containment •Containment (hot & cold aisle) required

• Non-traditional spaces, no conditioned

Traditional data centers, with facility Traditional data centers, with facility air required (ex. - warehouse)
Environments Traditional data centers
water water
• Note: facility water required

• Low to Mid-density racks • Mid to High-density racks • Systems with high TDP parts • Limited/no air cooling available
Main usage model
• Up to ~ 15kW/rack • Up to ~35kW/rack • High-density racks, up to ~80kW/rack • High-density racks, or high TDP parts

Single phase (1P):

Typical Cost Adder NA
Two-phase (2P):

Standard server cooling + 3rd party

Availability Standard cooling Dell factory supported configurations Dell OEM project engagement
supplemental cooling solutions

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Non-air cooling adoption challenges
1. Datacenter readiness to support liquid-cooling

2. Additional cost involved

• Consultancy
• Equipment (Coolant Distribution Units, Piping, Rack-manifolds,
Rear-door Heat Exchangers etc)
• Professional deployment services

3. Outside of research/educational institutions, most (not all)

customers currently still adopting “who wants to be guinea pig”,
“wait & see” attitude

4. Day-2 operational procedure(s), process(es) may be unfamiliar to

most
• E.g. Immersion-cooling likely to require a overhead jack to raise
server from tank; Immersion-cooled server needs to be drip-
dried before servicing can commence
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Dell Storage “software” innovation/prowess
“Do/Store more with less”, or “green-software”
Helps consolidate workloads to reduce physical hardware
and their associated energy and cooling costs.

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According to a recent
% Increase
data density
Transition to high-
density and
energy efficient
flash storage
Right-size
deployments by
modernizing with
software-defined
infrastructure
Forrester study, customers
overprovision their storage
environment by an Data reduction - guaranteed Solution
average of 37%.1 55:1 PowerProtect, DataDomain
Up to 4:1 Enterprise Storage Products

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Partnering for a
Green Data Center
Lessen environmental impact and
lower operational costs
 Modern, efficient hardware
configuration
Replace legacy hardware
Optimized thermals and for greater energy efficiency, less Effective device power
cooling rack space and higher performance management
per watt.
Optimize cooling capabilities from Manage device settings to reduce
hardware to the data center. energy waste.

Managed workload Smart data center power

distribution management
Optimize workloads on premise Use data center telemetry to help
and in the cloud. lower your carbon footprint.

Responsible retirement Green energy source

Retire equipment responsibly with Migrate to renewable energy
recycling and take back programs. sources and consider colocations.

CREATING THE PATH TO A

Green Data Center

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Dell’s Point of View

• A truly optimized data center is one that takes a holistic view,

balancing the 3 primary functional areas: IT, Facilities, and
Operational Management. This alignment ensures efficient use of IT
investment and efficient resource allocation driven by business
demand. Changes to one functional area requires an understanding IT
of the impact to the other functional areas.

• The Data Center of the Future must be highly

energy efficient, flexible, resilient, and recoverable. Operations Facilities
This requires careful planning, advanced cooling
designs, and proper use of IT workloads and other technologies and
must align to a comprehensive strategy.

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Next steps

In view of Sustainability – “Get Efficient” assessments/studies

Next steps

Learn Assess Modernize

Deep dive on energy Achieve energy savings Take advantage of new
efficiency topics and learn with the Get Efficient energy-efficient design
more about our Product Assessment and reduce breakthroughs and optimize
Carbon Footprint. dependencies on outdated performance per watt with a
hardware. data center refresh.
LEARN MORE
CONNECT WITH SALES TECH ROTATION

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Achieve real energy savings with
the Get Efficient Assessment
Reduce dependencies on outdated, inefficient hardware.
72% less 86% less
power & cooling rack space

Legacy

MODERN ~$150k savings 5:1 data

over 5 years reduction

91% less 77% more

latency performance

Information shown is based on real Dell

customer data. Actual results will vary.
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Get Efficient summary: Real world savings
Current solution: 20 x PowerEdge R630 Proposed solution: 10 x PowerEdge R750
Total compute power (SPEC)1: 848 Total compute power (SPEC)1: 1568

Power (kW): 6,8 Power (kW): 4,2

Cooling (BTU/h): 23K Cooling (BTU/h): 14K

Memory speed (MHz)2: 2133 Memory speed (MHz)3: 2667

Carbon emissions (kgCO2/Yr): 35K Carbon emissions (kgCO2/Yr): 22K

€31–€82K / $33K-$88K* €158K–€412K / $170K-$444K* €19K–€51K / $20K-$55K* €98K–€254K / $106K-$274K*

Annual power and cooling costs 5-year power and cooling costs Annual power and cooling costs 5-year power and cooling costs
*Yearly costs, average over the next 5 years. *Constant energy rate to 50% YoY increasing energy *Yearly costs, average over the next 5 years. *Constant energy rate to 50% YoY increasing
Constant energy rate to 50% YoY increasing rate. Constant energy rate to 50% YoY increasing energy rate.
energy rate. energy rate.

38% less power SAME rack €60K-$65K savings €157K-$169K 38% less 1.9x more
& cooling space (20U) over 5 years savings over 5 carbon compute power
Fixed energy rate: years emissions
1. Based on 75% SPECint & 25% SPECfp 0,262 € / kWh YoY increase of 50%:
2.
3.
Dependent on selected CPU E5-2623 v4
Dependent on selected CPU 4310T
Avg. 0,691 € / kWh
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Get Efficient summary: Real world savings
Current solution: VNX 5600 Proposed solution: PowerStore 500T
Used (TiBe): 311 Used (TiBe): 505 with 4:1 data reduction

Power (kW): 5,84 Power (kW): 0,58

Cooling (BTU/h): 20K Cooling (BTU/h): 2K

IOPS: 2729 IOPS: 26000

Carbon emissions (kgCO2/Yr): 30K Carbon emissions (kgCO2/Yr): 3K

€27–€71K / $29-$77K* €136K–€354K / $147K-$382K* €3K–€7K / $4K-$8K* €13K–€35K / $14K-$38K*

Annual power and cooling costs 5-year power and cooling costs Annual power and cooling costs 5-year power and cooling costs
*Yearly costs, average over the next 5 years. *Constant energy rate to 50% YoY increasing energy *Yearly costs, average over the next 5 years. *Constant energy rate to 50% YoY increasing
Constant energy rate to 50% YoY increasing rate. Constant energy rate to 50% YoY increasing energy rate.
energy rate. energy rate.

90% less power 97% less rack €121K / $130K €318K / $343K 4:1 data 90% less 9.5x more
& cooling space savings over 5 savings over 5 reduction carbon performance
years years emissions
Fixed energy rate: YoY increase of 50%:
0,262 € / kWh Avg. 0,691 € / kWh
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OME: Power Manager
Enhance server power consumption controls Power Manager dashboard UI
and mitigate operational risk

Track energy consumption

Measure IT equipment power and thermal
health of servers.

Reduce risk
Mitigate risks from power and cooling events
with pre-defined responses.

Maximize efficiency
Utilize the full capacity of existing rack and
power infrastructure.

Control power usage

Set policy-based controls to intelligently
throttle power when power pricing changes
or when performance is needed.

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OME Power Manager 3.x Sustainability Customer Benefits
• Create reports for facilities or
• Carbon emissions usage calculator and capacity planning government entities to show
CO2 emission reductions
– Use OME Power Manager to map actual CO2 emissions for PE
servers: • Use reports to lower emissions
to meet “green data center”
▪ Individual servers or groups of servers standards
▪ Measure one hour back to 365 days back (depending on how long Power NOTE: CO2 emissions information
Manager has been installed and collecting data) coupled with data center’s Power
Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric
– CO2 emissions reports can: identifies emissions caused by a data
▪ Use the default CO2 emissions value as published by U.S. Dept of Energy center’s facility (cooling, lighting,
etc.) in comparison to PowerEdge
▪ Use a customer’s location specific value (if the customer does not know devices
this value, they can easily search on country and city for specific CO2
• Create reports for under utilized
emissions average using their favorite browser search engine – this data is
servers (zombies, comatose,
widely published)
ghost):
▪ Be used to show actual CO2 emissions as related to usage in order to • Quickly identify PE servers
reduce power in off hours, reduce power all the time, and reduce the that are not being utilized yet
carbon emissions related to the excess power consumption using power and emitting
▪ Run reports at a point in time (i.e., daily, weekly, monthly) to compare CO2
• Repurpose, replace, remove
the servers to reduce the
CO2 emissions
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