Tech Tips: How EkkoSense makes Power Breakdowns simpler
What is my data center’s power consumption?
Understanding data center power consumption breakdown across your different rooms is increasingly important. That’s particularly the case as workloads become more complex and organizations need to report against ESG and sustainability requirements. Traditionally, collecting this kind of power breakdown data would be time-consuming. Operations teams need to split up BMS data into IT loads, cooling loads, and other non-IT usage.
However, the EkkoSoft Critical solution makes the task significantly simpler. It effectively automates the data center power usage analysis – removing the risk of errors. Here’s how easy it is to view a power breakdown for each of your rooms using EkkoSense’s software:
- Choose Room Information to access IT (AC), IT (DC), and Cooling Loads for each of your rooms
- Select the Power Breakdown button in the Room Information sidebar menu
- Expand to view the full breakdown, giving you the ability to track each individual PDU and Cooling unit
EkkoSoft Critical also features a Corporate/Other category that is reserved for power monitoring of non-IT and non-operational assets that are to be excluded from any PUE calculations. This simplifies the production of automated ESG Reporting. Watch our Power Breakdowns video here.
And if you want to find out more about how EkkoSoft Critical can help you understand data center power usage in more detail, contact the author Nathan Borthwick or read more about data center power monitoring and management here.
Data center Tech Tips from EkkoSense
“Tech Tips” by EkkoSense are short technical guidance articles with accompanying videos that explain how to use, optimize, or get more value from components of the EkkoSense platforms – EkkoSoft Critical and EkkoSim. Aimed at data center operators and engineers, they are designed to provide practical advice, walk-throughs, operational best practices, and explanations of features. Read more Tech Tips here or watch them on the EkkoSense YouTube channel.
