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Company Name:
   
 
 
Your Name:
   
 
 
Job title:
   
 
 
Location:
   
 
 
Telephone number:
   
 
 
Email:
   
 
 
Education:
   
 
 
N0. years as Employee
   
 
 
NO. years in IT
   
 
 
Career (Background/experience):
   
 
 
Current responsibilities
   
 
 
 
Other things you want to mention:
   
 
 
Date:
 
 

I) Definition of the analyzed IT Service Center (a short description of the system that has to be measured):

   
 

II) Classification of IT service center

1) Tier classification:

 
single path for power and cooling distribution, without redundant components, providing 99.671% availability
 
single path for power and cooling distribution, without redundant components, providing 99.741% availability
 
multiple active power and cooling distribution paths, but onlyone path active, has redundant components, and is concurrently maintainable, providing 99.982% availability
 
multiple active power and cooling distribution paths, has redundant components, and is fault tolerant, providing 99.995% availability
 
 

2) Functional classification:

 
Cloud IT Service Centre
 
Web Hosting IT Service Centre
 
Data Centre
 
HPC Centre
 
Other
 

 
 

3) Classification by size:

 
Server Closet - a service centre with a small number of servers, usually between 3 and 10, a small footprint of approximately 5 m2 and a reduced energy consumption of approximately 1.9 kW
 
Server Room - a service centre with a number of servers between 11 and 100, a footprint of approximately 20 m2 and an energy consumption of approximately 6 kW
 
Medium-sized service centre - service centers with a number of servers between 501-5000, a space footprint of about 600 m2 and an energy consumption of about 240 kW
 
Large service centre - service centers with high number of servers, usually greater than 5000, a space footprint of about 6000 m2 and a high energy consumption of approximately 2500 kW
 
Small-sized service center - service centers with a number of servers between 101-500, a space footprint of about 120 m2 and an energy consumption of about 70 kW
 
 
1.1) Number of buildings:
   
 
 
 
1.2) Occupied ground area:
   m2
 
 
 
1.3) Volume:
   m3
 
 
 
1.4.1) Exterior masonry type:
   
1.4.2) Glass surface:
   m2
1.4.3) Number and type of exterior doors:
   
 
 
 
1.5.1) Computing equipment:
   %
1.5.2) Offices:
   %
1.5.3) Utilities (heating, air conditioning, power station, fuel storage:
   %
1.5.4) Other (halls, corridors, social groups):
   %
 
 
 
1.6) Number of personnel:
   
/shift:
   h
 
 
 
1.7) Special needs of temperature, humidity in occupied spaces (specify the number of rooms, temperatures for each room, humidity for each room etc.)
   
 
 
 
1.8) Local climatic conditions (specify the geographical position of the data center, annual average temperature, annual average humidity, annual average quantity of precipitations etc.)
   
 
 
Type of equipment:
   
Installed thermal power:
   kW
Input voltage/frequency:
   V/Hz
Age of equipments:
   years
 
 
 
Type of equipment:
   
Installed thermal power:
   kW
Input voltage/frequency:
   V/Hz
Age of equipments:
   years
 
 
 
Type of equipment:
   
Installed thermal power:
   kW
Input voltage/frequency:
   V/Hz
Age of equipments:
   years
 
 
 
Type of equipment:
   
Installed thermal power:
   kW
Input voltage/frequency:
   V/Hz
Age of equipments:
   years
 
 
2.1.2) Power distribution architecture (please send the power system scheme at email).
 
2.1.3) Production of electric energy

2.1.3.1) Energy source (what is used to produce electric energy)
Type of source
 
 
 
a) Installation
   
 
 
Electrical power
   kW
Voltage/frequency
   V/Hz
No of pieces
   
 
 
b) Installation
   
 
 
Electrical power
   kW
Voltage/frequency
   V/Hz
No of pieces
   
 
 
 
a) Installation
   
 
 
Electrical power
   kW
Voltage/frequency
   V/Hz
No of pieces
   
 
 
b) Installation
   
 
 
Electrical power
   kW
Voltage/frequency
   V/Hz
No of pieces
   
 
 
2.1.5) Energy consumption (kWh) for the last 12 consecutive months. Optional, specify prices of this type of energy (at night, at day light, between periods of time etc.)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
E kWh
 
 
 
Type of source
   
Consumption for 12 consecutive months
   
 
 
 
a) Installation:
   
 
 
Thermal power
   kW
Nominal pressure
   bar
Working fluid
   ÂºC
Tour/Trip temperature (for working fluid)
   
No of pieces
   
Age of equipments
   years
 
 
b) Installation
   
 
 
Thermal power
   kW
Nominal pressure
   bar
Working fluid
   ÂºC
Tour/Trip temperature (for working fluid)
   
No of pieces
   
Age of equipments
   years
 
 
Pipe type (ex. steel, copper, plastic etc.)
   
No of radiators
   
Dimensions of radiators (L x W x T)
   mm
Type of isolation (ex. preinsolated, mineral texture etc.)
   
Insolation thickness
   mm
Maximum working temperatures
   ÂºC
Working pressure
   bar
 
 
Type of source
   
Consumption for 12 consecutive months
   
 
 
 
a) Installation
   
 
 
Thermal power
   kW
Nominal pressure
   bar
Working fluid
   ÂºC
Tour/Trip temperature (for working fluid)
   
No of pieces
   
Age of equipments
   years
 
 
b) Installation
   
 
 
Thermal power
   kW
Nominal pressure
   bar
Working fluid
   ÂºC
Tour/Trip temperature (for working fluid)
   
No of pieces
   
Age of equipments
   years
 
 
 
Pipe type (ex. steel, copper, plastic etc.)
   
No of radiators
   
Dimensions of radiators (L x W x T)
   mm
Type of isolation (ex. preinsolated, mineral texture etc.)
   
Insolation thickness
   mm
Maximum working temperatures
   ÂºC
Working pressure
   bar
 

2.3 Energy efficiency assesment questionnaire for computing equipments inside IT Service Centers


1) Description of the servers (servers that have to be measured)

Type of Server Installed Power (kW) OS Version Min. consumed power (kW) Average. consumed power (kW) Max. consumed power (kW) Short Technical Description
1
2
3
4
5
 

2) Description of the server components (server components that have to be measured)

Type of server component Installed Power (kW) Min. consumed power (kW) Average. consumed power (kW) Max. consumed power (kW) Short Technical Description
Power Source
Chipset
Microprocessor
RAM Memory
Hard-disk
Cooling Fan
 

3) Description of the active network equipments (active network equipments that have to be measured)

Type of Active Network Equipment Installed Power (kW) Min. consumed power (kW) Average. consumed power (kW) Max. consumed power (kW) Short Technical Description
Switch
Router
Access Point
 

4) Loading factor of the main server components

Type of server component Installed Power (kW) Min. consumed power (kW) Average. consumed power (kW) Max. consumed power (kW) Loading Factor (%)
Microprocessor
RAM Memory
Hard-disk
 

5) Description of other IT hardware equipments (IT equipments that have to be measured)

Type of IT hardware Installed Power (kW) Min. consumed power (kW) Average. consumed power (kW) Max. consumed power (kW) Short Technical Description
1
2
3
 
 

6) Has your company implemented a server working plan and power-off/power-on schedule? On which basis: weekly, daily, other

   
 
 

7) Do some servers run in continuous mode? If so, how many? What back-up plan have you implemented? Do back-up servers run in continuous mode too?

   
 
 

8) For each measured server provide its daily workload profile. If such information is not available, would you be happy to create such a profile within the scope of this audit?

   
 
 
% of peak CPU utilization
   
% of peak memory utilization
   
Peak disk IO utilization, throughput
   
Peak network load volume
   
 
 
% of overall average CPU utilization
   
% of overall average memory utilization
   
Overall average disk IO utilization, throughput
   
Overall average network load volume
   
 
 
% of average workday CPU utilization
   
% of average workday memory utilization
   
Average workday disk IO utilization, throughput
   
Average workday network load volume
   
 
 
% of read operations
   
% of write operations
   
rate of operations
   
 
 
Type
   
Raw capacity, usable space, consumed space in GB
   
Data protection, RAID mode
   
Growth pattern over next 12 or 24 months
   
Root disk type, volume, mirrored or not?
   
 
 
Types of network this system is in (Secure, Intranet, Internet, etc.)
   
Types of network this system needs to support (10/100 BT, FDDI, Token Ring, ATM, etc.)
   
 
 
Service Level Agreement: Service response time, availability %, planned dowtime, etc.
   
Uptime requirement
   
 
 
Backup frequency (full/incremental)
   
Backup windows
   
Backup devices (DLT, etc.)
   
Backup volume (GB)
   
Local or network backups
   
Backup software
   
 
 
Network type, number of interface cards
   
IO type, number of interface cards
   
 
 
Annual HW/SW support cost
   
Software license cost
   
 
 
Describe the service management policy, with special reference to problem/change management, release, and service level management.
   
 
 
Mainframe/Large Servers
   
LUNIX / UNIX / NT
   
Network
   
Other
   
 
 
1 hour
   
24 hours
   
>24 hours
   
 
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