By Andrea Osika, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Sustainability and Mat Brown, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Sustainability
Energy consumption is on the rise, and it’s expected to continue its upward trend. The AI boom is estimated to drive a 160% increase in datacenter energy consumption by 2030. This is happening while the International Energy Agency (IEA) has declared an energy crisis and new ESG regulations drive attention towards environmental impact.
Optimizing energy usage becomes critical to help promote operational efficiency and sustainability. Energy efficiency is positioned to be an increasingly important metric and having access to real-time power data can inform sustainable IT strategies.
Daily energy consumption can vary based on workload, duration of activity, or performance state. Tools for real-time energy monitoring of IT infrastructure can provide information that can help enable informed decisions and identify opportunities to potentially reduce power usage and expenses. Oftentimes, those tools can come at an additional cost and can be siloed across an IT infrastructure ecosystem.
The Nutanix Prism management console within the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) solution helps customers holistically understand their infrastructure environment – including storage, compute and networking resources – with useful metrics like CPU utilization, memory usage and storage IOPS.
Now, the new Power Monitor functionality enabled by Prism helps provide additional insights into metrics like power and energy usage at the node and cluster level. This can help to provide an understanding of an organization's Nutanix footprint from an energy cost and operational perspective and opens the path for optimizing energy efficiency and workload placement.
When enabled within the Prism management console, the new Power Monitor positions IT practitioners to:
Monitor power with other system metrics – A single pane of glass displays power consumption alongside key system metrics like CPU and memory usage, disk I/O and more.
Observe usage trends – Using real-time and historical visualizations at the cluster and node level using line charts of power usage for various time periods.
Download power data – Metrics can be accessed via API so customers can integrate power usage data into their own management and monitoring tools.
These new capabilities and the resulting efficiency insights can help IT practitioners develop a deeper understanding of their digital carbon footprint and enhance the potential impact over time.
Besides providing visibility into energy demands of their workloads, Power Monitor helps to proactively identify and address power-related issues in real-time before they become potential disruptions. This could help to avoid unexpected downtime, prolong equipment lifespans, and aid in continuous availability for a more resilient infrastructure.
Visit this technical blog for more on the update or click here if you’re interested in the API functionality.
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