There is tremendous focus on the financial aspects of power and cooling costs. And there is a growing concern about the effects of energy usage on the global environment. The new P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family addresses these concerns by providing improved energy efficiency compared to the previous generations of EVAs.
SAVING ENERGY
Energy efficiency is built into the P6000 EVA family. It offers hardware that inherently operates more efficiently, and software that optimises storage capacity to reduce the number of disks needed. In addition, the P6000 EVA family provides tools that allow users to estimate power consumption before constructing a configuration, and then monitor actual power consumption after the configuration is built.
Energy efficiency is built into the P6000 EVA family. It offers hardware that inherently operates more efficiently, and software that optimises storage capacity to reduce the number of disks needed. In addition, the P6000 EVA family provides tools that allow users to estimate power consumption before constructing a configuration, and then monitor actual power consumption after the configuration is built.
• Smart cooling fans: Internal temperature sensors and smart logic conserve energy by spinning the fans no faster than necessary to reliably cool the components. During periods of low system activity or low ambient air temperatures, the fan speed can be safely reduced.
• High-efficiency power supplies: Power supplies in the controller enclosures meet the 80 PLUS Silver1
• Low-power disk drives options: Support of SFF (2.5-inch) and 7.2K rpm mid-line SAS provide configuration options for reduced power and higher capacity operation. rating (for example, 89 percent efficient at 50 percent rated load, 230 VAC), whereas power supplies in the external drive enclosures meet 80 PLUS Gold1 rating (for example, 92 percent efficient at 50 percent rated load, 230 VAC).
• Advanced RAID: Compared to RAID-1 (mirroring), higher levels of RAID offer improved capacity utilization based on the RAID group size and the number of parity disks. The EVA P6300 and P6500 offer advanced RAID levels 5, 0+5, and 6.
• Snapshots: EVA Vsnap saves disk space by creating logical copies of data that are virtually capacity-free.
• Thin provisioning: Provides the ability to fully provision volumes for applications while physically allocating only the data that has actually been written. This reduces the amount of unused capacity.
• Dynamic Capacity Management (DCM): A comprehensive software solution that automates storage provisioning by “rightsizing” the file system and storage volumes, and improves capacity utilisation.
• LUN migration: Dynamic LUN/RAID migration allows the user to change the characteristics of an existing LUN, such as disk type, RAID type, and LUN size, while the host I/O operation is active. Migrating less frequently used data from high-performance enterprise 15K rpm drives to 7.2K rpm mid-line drives is an example of a storage-tiering operation that can effectively reduce the overall power consumption.
• Monitored Power Distribution Unit (PDU): An HP rack mounted monitored PDU with optional PDU Management Module for remote monitoring (Web access) allows IT and Facility personnel to monitor current draw at the rack and within three zones of each PDU.
• High-efficiency power supplies: Power supplies in the controller enclosures meet the 80 PLUS Silver1
• Low-power disk drives options: Support of SFF (2.5-inch) and 7.2K rpm mid-line SAS provide configuration options for reduced power and higher capacity operation. rating (for example, 89 percent efficient at 50 percent rated load, 230 VAC), whereas power supplies in the external drive enclosures meet 80 PLUS Gold1 rating (for example, 92 percent efficient at 50 percent rated load, 230 VAC).
• Advanced RAID: Compared to RAID-1 (mirroring), higher levels of RAID offer improved capacity utilization based on the RAID group size and the number of parity disks. The EVA P6300 and P6500 offer advanced RAID levels 5, 0+5, and 6.
• Snapshots: EVA Vsnap saves disk space by creating logical copies of data that are virtually capacity-free.
• Thin provisioning: Provides the ability to fully provision volumes for applications while physically allocating only the data that has actually been written. This reduces the amount of unused capacity.
• Dynamic Capacity Management (DCM): A comprehensive software solution that automates storage provisioning by “rightsizing” the file system and storage volumes, and improves capacity utilisation.
• LUN migration: Dynamic LUN/RAID migration allows the user to change the characteristics of an existing LUN, such as disk type, RAID type, and LUN size, while the host I/O operation is active. Migrating less frequently used data from high-performance enterprise 15K rpm drives to 7.2K rpm mid-line drives is an example of a storage-tiering operation that can effectively reduce the overall power consumption.
• Monitored Power Distribution Unit (PDU): An HP rack mounted monitored PDU with optional PDU Management Module for remote monitoring (Web access) allows IT and Facility personnel to monitor current draw at the rack and within three zones of each PDU.
Click here to access a white paper, which explains the new power saving features of the P6000 EVAs and provides quantification of the possible power savings.
To find out more, contact your Nike Account Manager on 0871 200 3730 or email sales@nike.co.uk