HP Data Center Environmental Edge -
overview

HP Data Center Environmental Edge is an affordable approach to monitoring data centers environments, resulting in optimal use of data centers capacity and a reduction in energy costs.  

The new HP Environmental Edge technology helps address one of the most critical issues in today’s data centers – power and cooling.  By visualizing, analyzing and measuring data centers environmental parameters, HP Environmental Edge ensures complete confidence in running more efficient data centers. It clearly bridges the gap between IT and Facilities as both can have deeper insight into their current Data Center environment.

• Remediation: Fix data center Inefficiencies through Data Center Environmental Visualization
• Energy savings (Reduces data centers cooling energy up to 15%) and increased cooling capacity
• Increased Flexibility: Adapt /Upgrade the HP Environmental Edge hardware and software to meet data center's changing needs

What's New

Data centers growth and change increase the operational complexity for facility managers to provide uptime and energy efficient infrastructure. HP Data Center Environmental Edge helps customer visualize data center environmentals, remediate problems areas, manage Data Center change and notifies IT and facility managers about potential infrastructure issues.

• Data center Energy Visualization
• Branch Circuit Monitoring / Chilled Water Energy
• Real time PUE / DCiE Metrics

Data Center Environmental Remediation

• Fixes inefficiencies: air flow / mgmt, CRAH over provisioning, humidity control optimization, rack overcooling, floor tile placement
• Reduces power consumption up to18%*
• Tracks environmental trends up to 180 days

• Reduce downtime
• Visualize how data center changes impact air flow, temperature, etc.
• Optimize rack air mixing / bypass
• Benchmark key data center infrastructure metrics

• Notification every 60 seconds on critical changes based on user defined parameters
• Alerts via text, email, SNMP
• Communicate alerts to other systems via SNMP

Ideal environment

Data Centers from 2000 ft2 / 200 sq. meters

• Cost effective solution for small to enterprise class data centers
• Facility and IT managers who want deeper insight into rack level environmentals
• Capital cost sensitivity - stay in current Data center vs opex
• Customers having “green initiatives” and looking for energy efficiency opportunities

Data Centers Power & Cooling Constraints with limited insight

• Customers investigating any type of environmental assessment of their Data Center’s environment
• Customers wanting to minimize the operating cost of their Data Centers by optimizing their power and cooling resources