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Creating an Energy- Efficient Datacenter Consolidate with Sun technology

Summary • Consolidation and hardware tech- < nology refreshes enable datacenters IT organizations are constantly challenged to find ways to deliver more innovative services to provide more applications and to users while reducing operational costs — and Sun is no different. By consolidating services in less space and at less datacenter operations and refreshing the hardware infrastructure with high-performance, cost. energy-efficient Sun systems, Sun was able to reclaim 88 percent of its valuable datacenter floor • By moving to high-performance, space and reduce power consumption by 61 percent — all while improving performance by energy-efficient Sun servers and 456% and storage capacity by 244 percent with less than half the original hardware. Companies storage systems, IT organizations can employ similar techniques to achieve comparable results. can take advantage of the latest advancements while saving on power and cooling. Pressures abound Unfortunately, IT organizations are realizing Datacenters are the lifeblood of the enterprise. that budget reduction isn’t as simple as reducing • Datacenter consolidation and hardware replacement efforts Virtually every aspect of the business depends acquisition costs. Total cost of ownership and enabled Sun to reclaim 88% of on the servers — and the applications they other business requirements, such as return its datacenter floor space, reduce deliver — to stay ahead of rapidly changing on assets or operating expenses, must also be power consumption by over 60%, business demands. But pressures exist. Growth considered. Systems must be able to scale to and avoid more than $9 million is a natural consequence of business success, provide the performance needed, and ongoing in construction costs. and with it the load on the datacenter sky- operational costs such as energy usage must • Hardware replacement efforts rockets. Many older platforms are reaching be able to be reduced and controlled. improved server performance by the edge of their capacity, making it difficult 456% and storage capacity by 244% — while using less than half for datacenters to depend on systems and scale The need for consolidation and the number of original servers. solutions to meet service-level agreements. technology refresh • Consolidating and upgrading the IT organizations continue to work hard to infrastructure with energy-efficient Complicating these challenges are economic support business goals, with many spending systems can help prepare for virtu- and globalization pressures, factors that are more than half the IT budget on technology alization efforts. forcing IT managers to find new ways to drive refresh or capacity expansion to build on down datacenter costs without sacrificing existing infrastructure and meet service-level infrastructure performance and alignment agreements. Over time, the influx of many with business priorities. servers and applications results in a sprawling, 2 Creating an Energy-Efficient Datacenter sun.com/eco

complex network of systems that consume • servers with CoolThreads™ technology Maximize datacenter uptime valuable datacenter floor space, create excessive deliver breakthrough performance and Finding ways to minimize both planned and power and cooling demands, and are costly dramatic space and power efficiencies. unplanned downtime can mean the difference and difficult to manage. These demands are Incorporating the UltraSPARC T1 , between success and failure. By consolidating pushing operating budgets to the limit. these servers are based on an innovative the datacenter onto the newest Sun servers design that provides massive amounts of and the Solaris OS, companies can take advan- Obviously, approaching new business needs thread-level parallelism and increased appli- tage of technology advancements that are with more efficient, powerful, and scalable cation throughput via chip multithreading designed from the ground up with an eye systems can alleviate some pressures. However, (CMT) technology. With up to eight cores per toward eliminating application disruptions. opportunities exist to gain efficiencies through processor and four threads per core, the upgrades to the existing datacenter infrastruc- UltraSPARC T1 processor provides up to 32 Innovative technologies, such as Dynamic ture. Consolidation and hardware replacement simultaneous threads in a low-power, low- Reconfiguration, enable hardware components efforts can actually help organizations tackle heat processor. As a result, Sun servers with to be added and removed without rebooting business challenges head-on. CoolThreads technology deliver outstanding the , and Solaris Predictive performance in a small footprint with excep- Self-Healing technologies can monitor and Reaping the benefits tionally low-power consumption and low- isolate potentially faulty hardware to avoid Server and storage consolidation is not just a heat generation. impacts to application service availability. Also, hot IT trend — it is a necessity. By consolidating • The Sun Fire x64 server family provides all Sun servers are designed for easy servicea- existing systems onto more powerful, energy- industry-leading price/performance in a set bility, with hot-pluggable cooling fans, power efficient, and cost-effective Sun server and of modular systems ranging from very low- supplies, and disk drives as well as easy access storage platforms, IT organizations can keep cost, single-rack-unit servers to the only to common service areas. the datacenter operating at peak efficiency. eight-processor, 16-core x64-based system in the industry. Featuring single- or dual-core Experience extreme performance Get ahead with Sun innovation Next-Generation AMD ™ processors Getting more work done faster makes the By replacing existing systems with powerful, or ® processors and the ability to natively datacenter more valuable to the business. The high-performance, energy-efficient Sun servers, run the Solaris™ Operating System (OS), engineering behind Sun’s latest CoolThreads enterprises can utilize fewer servers that provide , or Windows environments, Sun Fire and x64 systems offers dramatic performance the latest processor and system advancements. x64 servers give organizations the flexibility and throughput advancements over previous A comprehensive line of powerful SPARC® and to consolidate many applications onto a generations of SPARC systems from competitors. x64 systems that scale from one to hundreds of powerful, industry-standard platform. processors/cores and more than half a terabyte • Sun’s robust storage solutions offer the data Save on power and cooling and reclaim of memory, Sun servers provide the outstanding accessibility, value, and security enterprises valuable datacenter floor space scalability, flexibility, binary compatibility, and demand from storage infrastructures. Disk Analysts estimate that more than 80 percent performance today's datacenters need to devices, network-attached storage clusters of datacenters are power and heat constrained. handle a broad spectrum of workloads. and appliances, tape solutions, and datacenter Today, IT managers continue to look for ways • Sun Fire™ servers incorporating UltraSPARC® systems that can store up to hundreds of to alleviate these constraints, even when IV and UltraSPARC IV+ processors are designed terabytes of information supply the perform- adding service capacity. Additionally, the cost to support mission-critical workloads and ance, flexibility, and scalability datacenters associated with managing a large number of provide the right balance of performance, need to grow and adapt to changing demand. servers is a greater burden than anticipated. scalability, reliability, cost, and power con- , thin provisioning and parti- Adding power and cooling capacity to a build- sumption. With multiple design points that tioning, innovative data server designs, and ing is often expensive or, in a number of cases, address specific application needs, these more can help organizations integrate simply not possible within the boundaries of powerful systems scale from single-processor capacity quickly, simplify administration, blade systems optimized for price/perform- and create competitive advantage. ance to compute-dense multiprocessor servers. 3 Creating an Energy-Efficient Datacenter sun.com/eco

existing facilities. The power and heat gener- The hardware replacement effort produced ated by many older — and even many newer similar benefits for storage capacity. Older “The hardware replacement program is a — server technologies can make IT service arrays were replaced with Sun StorageTek™ capacity an issue even when the datacenter 3000 and 6000 series disk arrays with high- perfect example of how investments in still has room for more servers. performance 144-gigabyte Sun’s newer technologies can produce drives. Capacity increased 244 percent even Energy- and space-efficient Sun servers provide though 70 percent fewer storage devices were massive cost savings and productivity significant in-roads into these money-saving deployed. strategies. Sun’s newest servers produce far improvements. But it’s even bigger less heat and consume less power than any The new server and storage systems decreased than that. It helps the environment. alternative on the market today. By reclaiming overall datacenter power consumption by 61 datacenter space with low-power, compute- percent. In addition, the hardware replacement We’re applying our Eco Innovation dense servers, organizations can reduce real enabled Sun to reduce lab space by 88 percent, estate costs and host more applications within avoid more than $9 million in construction, Initiative in our own backyard.” the datacenter. and project a 100-percent payback in just three Dean Nelson years. Results of this magnitude may seem Director of Global Lab and Datacenter Design Services, Sun’s datacenter consolidation and extraordinary, but they can be replicated by hardware replacement success Sun customers worldwide. Like any other enterprise, Sun was looking for ways to reduce datacenter operational costs. In Planning for the future 2006, Sun launched an initiative to consolidate By consolidating datacenters and replacing datacenters from several Bay Area, California hardware with new Sun systems, organizations campuses into new, -generation datacenters not only reap performance benefits and energy supporting Sun’s core R&D business. By replacing and space savings, they can prepare for future older servers and storage systems with the virtualization efforts to drive even greater latest Sun technology, Sun compressed 152 system utilization. One key technology is datacenter rooms that occupied 202,000 , a breakthrough approach square feet of space into 14 new, next-genera- to virtualization and partitioning that tion datacenters occupying 76,000 square feet. enables the secure isolation of applications and services using flexible, software-defined More than 2100 servers and 700 storage boundaries. Applications can be managed devices were identified as candidates for independently of each other, even while run- replacement. For example, Sun replaced 88 ning in the same instance of the Solaris OS. Sun Fire V880 systems with 58 Sun Fire T2000 Linux applications can even run within a Solaris and T1000 systems, yielding a 91-percent Container without modification, enabling reduction in datacenter floor space and more organizations to consolidate Solaris and Linux than a 60-percent reduction in power costs. applications on a single system to affect better Sun also replaced a variety of older systems resource utilization. with servers based on UltraSPARC IV+ and multicore AMD Opteron processors performing at more than four times the previous processing speed. The overall server replacement equated to a 456% compute-performance increase using less than half the number of original servers. 4 Creating an Energy-Efficient Datacenter sun.com/eco

A leader in datacenter design Sun also provides a variety of services that can For more than twenty years Sun has created help enterprises plan and execute consolidation Learn More the platforms on which effective datacenters efforts. Consolidation justification workshops To learn more about Sun’s Eco are built. Through an unwavering commitment and services and custom architecture and InnovationSM Initiative and energy- to networking, throughput computing, and implementation services are available to help efficient datacenters, and for information open standards, Sun consistently delivers IT organizations design and implement a new, on additional design features, visit solutions that can help datacenters create a virtualized and consolidated architecture for sun.com/eco. competitive advantage. High-performance systems, networks, and storage. By consoli- and energy-efficient x64 systems, servers with dating datacenters with Sun technology, com- CoolThreads technology, innovative data servers, panies can do more work in less space and at and the cutting-edge Project Blackbox — a significantly lower cost. virtualized datacenter built in a standard shipping container — combine with a vast array of software solutions to help organizations leverage network bandwidth and compute power and create more efficient infra- structures that maximize return on investments.

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