APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR FACILITATING DATA-CENTER MANAGEMENT

• US 20090281846A1
• Filed: 05/06/2008
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Electronic Data Systems Corporation (Perspecta, Inc.)
• Inventors: ROSE, JOHN F.
• Application Number:
  US12/115,943
• Publication Number:
  US 20090281846A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06393 Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/84 Greenhouse gas [GHG] management systems

Abstract

An apparatus, and an associated methodology, automatically monitors operations at a data center. A metric obtainer collects metrics associated with operation of entities maintained or operated at the data center. The collected metrics are stored at a database whose contents are accessible by an analyzer. The analyzer analyzes the collected data. Analyses are used to manage operations at the data center.

Claims

1. An apparatus for facilitating operation of a data center, said apparatus comprising:

a metric obtainer configured automatically to obtain data-center metrics associated with operations of the data center;

an analyzer configured to analyze the data-center metrics obtained by said metric obtainer; and

a manager configured to manage the operations of the data center response, to analysis made by said analyzer, management of the operations made to optimize a performance criteria.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said manager is configured to manage the operations to optimize a carbon footprint of the data center.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said metric obtainer is configured automatically to obtain application performance related metrics.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said metric obtainer is configured automatically to obtain data center power consumption related metrics.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said metric obtainer is configured automatically to obtain data center equipment related metrics.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a database configured to store data center metrics obtained by said metric obtainer.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said analyzer is configured to analyze data-center metrics retrieved from said database.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said analyzer is further configured to perform predictive analysis of the data-center metrics.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said analyzer is further configured to analyze changes of a green footprint of the data center.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said analyzer is further configured to perform cost modeling.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said analyzer in further configured to predict a data-center green footprint.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said analyzer is further configured to perform comparative cost modeling.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said manager is further configured to minimize consumption of high-carbon-content power-sourced energy.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a user interface configured to display analysis indicia formed by said analyzer.

15. A method for facilitating operation of a data center, said method comprising:

automatically obtaining data-center metrics associated with operations of the data center;

analyzing the data-center metrics; and

managing the operations of the data center responsive to analysis of the data center metrics, management of the operations made to optimize a performance criteria.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein said managing comprises managing the operations of the data center to optimize a green footprint of the data center.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein said analyzing further comprises predicting a data center green footprint pursuant to a modeled data-center use configuration.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein said analyzing further comprises performing comparative cost modeling.

19. The method of claim 15 wherein said analyzing further comprises predicting a data-center green footprint.

20. Monitoring apparatus for monitoring operations at a data center, aid monitoring apparatus comprising:

a server-based data collector configured to collect data-center metrics during production-environment operation of the data center; and

a calculator configured to generate carbon-footprint related indicia associated with data-center operation using the data-center metrics collected by said server-based data collector.