Power supply and data center control

• US 9,778,718 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2009
• Issued: 10/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schneider Electric IT Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: Schneider Electric IT Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Zacho, Carl Edvard Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Choudhury, Zahid
• Application Number:
  US12/370,969
• Publication Number:
  US 20100211810A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,154 Days
• Field of Search: 713310, 713320, 713323, 713324, 718104, 718105
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/329 by task scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5019 Workload prediction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5088 involving task migration
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

Systems and methods for data center power supply control are provided that identify a parameter of at least one of a plurality of servers that form at least part of a data center that includes an uninterruptable power supply. An estimated parameter of a virtual server can be identified, and one of the plurality of servers can be selected based at least in part on the parameter and the estimated parameter. The virtual server can be provided to the selected server, and the power provided to at least one of the plurality of servers can be reduced, shut down, or otherwise adjusted.

Claims

1. A method of data center power supply control, the method executing on a computer including a processor and a memory, the method comprising:

identifying, by the processor, a parameter of at least one of a plurality of servers that form at least part of a data center;

identifying an estimated power draw of a virtual server and an estimated cooling requirement of the virtual server;

determining an estimated power distribution from each phase of a plurality of phases of one or more polyphase power supplies to the plurality of servers;

determining a phase balance between the plurality of phases based on the estimated power distribution from each phase of the plurality of phases;

identifying a cooling capacity of a cooling unit;

selecting one of the plurality of servers based at least in part on the parameter, the estimated power draw, the estimated cooling requirement, the phase balance between the plurality of phases, and the cooling capacity;

generating a power request based at least in part on the estimated power draw;

providing the virtual server to the selected server;

adjusting an output of the cooling unit to the selected server based at least in part on the estimated cooling requirement; and

adjusting the one or more polyphase power supplies to adjust power provided to at least one of the plurality of servers responsive to the power request.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the one or more polyphase power supplies comprises:

reversibly shutting down a portion of the one or more polyphase power supplies that provides power to at least one of the plurality of servers that is a different server than the selected server.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein shutting down the portion of the one or more polyphase power supplies comprises:

shutting down at least one of a power distribution unit and a branch circuit of the one or more polyphase power supplies.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising:

providing an application to the virtual server; and

adjusting a parameter of the cooling unit to adjust a temperature of the selected server.

5. The method of claim 4, comprising:

shutting down a portion of the cooling unit associated with at least one of the plurality of servers that is a different server than the selected server.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising:

providing an application to the virtual server; and

providing the requested amount of power to the selected server.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the parameter, the estimated power draw, and the estimated cooling requirement include a simulated parameter;

further comprising;

selecting the one of the plurality of servers based at least in part on the simulated parameter.

8. The method of claim 1, comprising:

determining an estimated life of at least one data center component based on at least one of the parameter, the estimated power draw, the estimated cooling requirement, and the estimated power distribution; and

generating a data center maintenance schedule based on the estimated life.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the parameter further comprises:

determining an estimated future power requirement of at least one of the plurality of servers for a period of time that is at least one of;

less than one second, between one and ten seconds, and greater than ten seconds.

10. The method of claim 9, comprising:

reactivating, responsive to the determined estimated future power requirement, at least a portion of the one or more polyphase power supplies from a shut down mode.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein providing the virtual server to the selected server includes relocating the virtual server from a first server of the plurality of servers to the selected server.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the one of the plurality of servers based at least in part on the phase balance includes selecting a server powered by a phase with a lowest estimated power distribution to improve the phase balance.

13. A data center power supply control system, comprising:

a data center including a plurality of servers;

one or more polyphase power supplies electrically coupled to the plurality of servers; and

a data center controller connected to the plurality of servers, the data center controller being configured to;

identify a parameter of at least one of the plurality of servers;

identify an estimated power draw of a virtual server and an estimated cooling requirement of the virtual server;

estimate power distribution from each phase of a plurality of phases of the one or more polyphase power supplies to the plurality of servers and the virtual server;

determine a phase balance between the plurality of phases based on the estimated power distribution from each of the plurality of phases;

identify a cooling capacity of a cooling unit;

generate a power request based at least in part on the estimated power draw;

add the virtual server to a first server of one of the plurality of servers based at least in part on the parameter, the estimated power draw, the estimated cooling requirement, the cooling capacity, and the phase balance between the plurality of phases;

adjust an output of the cooling unit to the first server based at least in part on the estimated cooling requirement; and

adjust an amount of power provided from the one or more polyphase power supplies to the plurality of servers responsive to the power request.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the data center controller is configured to reversibly shut down a portion of the one or more polyphase power supplies that distributes power to at least one of the plurality of servers.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the portion of the one or more polyphase power supplies includes at least one of a power distribution unit and a branch circuit.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the estimated power draw of the virtual server includes an estimated amount of power to execute an application at the virtual server;

wherein

the data center controller is configured to provide the application to the virtual server; and

wherein the one or more power polyphase supplies is configured to provide the estimated amount of power to the first server.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the data center controller being configured to add the virtual server to the first server includes the data center controller being further configured to relocate the virtual server from a second server to the first server.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the data center controller is configured to shut down a portion of the cooling associated with the second server.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the data center controller is configured to adjust a parameter of the cooling unit to adjust a temperature of at least one of the plurality of servers.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein the data center controller is configured to adjust a parameter of the cooling unit to maintain a temperature of at least one of the plurality of servers.

21. The system of claim 13, the data center controller being configured to add the virtual server to the first server includes the data center controller being further configured to relocate the virtual server to the first server from a server of a second data center.

22. The system of claim 13, wherein at least one of the parameter, the estimated cooling requirement, the estimated power draw, and the estimated power distribution includes a simulated parameter;

and

wherein the data center controller is configured to add the virtual server to the first server based at least in part on the simulated parameter.

23. The system of claim 13, wherein the data center controller evaluates at least one of the parameter, the estimated cooling requirement, the estimated power draw, and the estimated power distribution to determine an estimated life of at least one data center component;

and wherein the data center controller provides a data center maintenance schedule based at least in part on the estimated life.

24. The system of claim 13, wherein the parameter includes at least one of a measured parameter of at least one of the plurality of servers and an estimated future parameter of at least one of the plurality of servers.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the estimated future parameter includes an estimated future power requirement of at least one of the plurality of servers for a period of time that is at least one of:

less than one second, between one and ten seconds, and greater than ten seconds.

26. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more polyphase power supplies include one or more polyphase uninterruptable power supplies.

27. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

identify a parameter of at least one of a plurality of servers that form at least part of a data center;

identify an estimated power draw of a virtual server and an estimated cooling requirement of the virtual server;

determine estimated power distribution from each phase of a plurality of phases of one or more polyphase power supplies to the plurality of servers;

determine a phase balance between the plurality of phases based on the estimated power distribution from each phase of the plurality of phases;

identify a cooling capacity of a cooling unit;

select one of the plurality of servers based at least in part on the parameter, the estimated power draw, the estimated cooling requirement, the cooling capacity, and the phase balance between the plurality of phases;

generate a power request based at least in part on the estimated power draw;

provide the virtual server to the selected server;

adjust an output of the cooling unit to the selected server based at least in part on the estimated cooling requirement; and

adjust the one or more polyphase power supplies to adjust power provided to at least one of the plurality of servers responsive to the power request.

28. A data center control system, comprising:

a first data center including a first polyphase power supply and a second data center including a second polyphase power supply, each data center connected to a network, and each data center including a plurality of servers;

a data center controller connected to the network and configured to;

identify parameters of the first data center and parameters of the second data center;

estimate power distribution of each phase of a first plurality of phases of the first polyphase power supply and each phase of a second plurality of phases of the second polyphase power supply;

determine a first phase balance between the first plurality of phases and a second phase balance between the second plurality of phases based on the estimated power distribution from each phase of the first and second plurality of phases;

identify an estimated power draw and an estimated cooling requirement for execution of an application on a virtual server;

identify a cooling capacity of a cooling unit;

evaluate the parameters of the first and second data centers, the first phase balance between the first plurality of phases, the second phase balance between the second plurality of phases, the cooling capacity, the estimated power draw, and the estimated cooling requirement;

generate a power request based at least in part on the evaluation; and

transfer the virtual server from a first server of the first data center to a second server of the second data center based at least in part on the evaluation,

wherein at least a portion of the first polyphase power supply coupled to the first server reversibly shuts down responsive to the transfer of the virtual server, the second polyphase power supply coupled to the second server is adjusted, and an output of the cooling unit to the second server is adjusted based at least in part on the estimated cooling requirement.

29. A method of data center control, the method executed on a computer comprising a processor and a memory, the method comprising:

identifying, by the processor, server parameters of first data center servers and server parameters of second data center servers;

determining estimated power distribution from each phase of a plurality of phases of one or more polyphase power supplies to the first data center servers and to the second data center servers;

determining a phase balance between the plurality of phases based on the estimated power distribution from each of the plurality of phases;

identifying an estimated power draw and an estimated cooling requirement for execution of an application on a virtual server;

identifying a cooling capacity of a cooling unit;

generating a power request based at least in part on the estimated power draw;

transferring the virtual server from a first server of the first data center to a second server of the second data center based at least in part on an evaluation of the server parameters of the first data center servers, the server parameters of the second data center servers, the cooling capacity, the estimated power draw, the phase balance between the plurality of phases, and the estimated cooling requirement;

reversibly shutting down at least part of the one or more polyphase power supplies coupled to the first server;

adjusting an output of the cooling unit to the second server based at least in part on the estimated cooling requirement; and

adjusting the one or more polyphase power supplies coupled to the second server responsive to the power request.