Patent ID: 7653499
Filing Date: 2010-01-26
Classification: G01R,G06Q,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method of facilitating monitoring a data center, the method comprising: employing at least one rack monitor unit associated with at least one electronics rack in automatically determining energy usage of the at least one electronics rack of the data center, the automatically determining including automatically ascertaining an averaged, time-based energy usage of the at least one electronics rack, wherein the automatically ascertaining comprises obtaining multiple measurements of actual, instantaneous energy usage of the at least one electronics rack over a period of time, and averaging the multiple measurements to obtain the averaged, time-based energy usage of the at least one electronics rack; employing at least one cooling monitor unit associated with at least one cooling unit of the data center in automatically determining energy usage of the at least one cooling unit, the automatically determining including automatically ascertaining an averaged, time-based energy usage of the at least one cooling unit over the same period of time as the averaged, time-based energy usage of the at least one electronics rack, wherein the automatically ascertaining comprises obtaining multiple measurements of actual, instantaneous energy usage of the at least one cooling unit over the period of time, and averaging the multiple measurements to obtain the averaged, time-based energy usage of the at least one cooling unit; and outputting the averaged, time-based energy usages of the at least one electronics rack and the at least one cooling unit to facilitate monitoring of the data center.