Emerald Program
The SNIA Emerald Program Power Efficiency Measurement Specification,[1] is a storage specification developed and maintained by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and cross-referenced by the Environmental Protection Agency’s EnergyStar program.[2] The specification consists of a storage types taxonomy, system under test workload and energy measurement method, measured metrics for active and idle operational states, and presence tests for capacity optimization technologies. The measured metric data is generated through the use of well-defined standard testing and data reduction procedures prescribed in the SNIA Emerald Specification.[3] This data quantifies storage system power efficiency for typical types of enterprise datacenter workloads and helps IT professionals make storage platform selections as part of an overall Green IT and sustainability objective.
SNIA's ongoing collaboration with the EPA has helped to shape the Energy Star Data Center Storage (DCS) Specification.[4] The EPA DCS specification cross-references the SNIA Emerald Specification as the test and measurement methodology.[5][6]
References
- ^ SNIA Emerald Power Efficiency Measurement Specification Approved specification for measuring power efficiency of storage systems http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/standards/curr_standards/emerald
- ^ EPA ENERGY STAR Data Center Storage program http://www.energystar.gov/products/spec/data_center_storage_specification_version_1_0_pd
- ^ SNIA Emerald Power Efficiency Measurement Specification Approved specification for measuring power efficiency of storage systems http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/standards/curr_standards/emerald
- ^ *EPA ENERGY STAR Data Center Storage: published product power efficiency data http://www.energystar.gov/productfinder/product/certified-data-center-storage
- ^ http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=products.pr_crit_data_storage_centers
- ^ The ENERGY STAR storage taxonomy is consistent with the taxonomy developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association Green Storage Initiative as defined in "SNIA Emerald Power Efficiency Measurement Specification" Version 2.0.0 rev 1, 12 December, 2012
Links
- SNIA Emerald™ Program homepage provides information on power efficiency, product measurement results, training, etc. for storage systems http://www.sniaemerald.com
- SNIA Green Storage Initiative homepage provides information about energy efficiency and conservations for networked storage technologies www.snia.org/gsi
- European Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centre http://iet.jrc.ec.europa.eu/energyefficiency/ict-codes-conduct/data-centres-energy-efficiency
- The Green Grid homepage – energy efficient IT http://www.thegreengrid.org/
- 80 PLUS homepage and information about power supply energy efficiency http://www.plugloadsolutions.com/80PlusPowerSupplies.aspx
- Transaction Processing Performance Council – includes power efficiency data http://www.tpc.org/
- Storage Performance Council – includes Energy Extension http://www.storageperformance.org/home
- Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation – benchmarks for servers and other computer systems that include power efficiency
Third Party References to SNIA Emerald
- EnergyStar references to SNIA Emerald Specification in Table 4 http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=products.pr_crit_data_storage_centers
- Industry report reference to SNIA Emerald on Page 21 http://www.nrel.gov/extranet/ump/pdfs/20140113_ump_data_centers_draft.pdf
- Lot 9 study for EU, ICT best practices and procurement - reference to SNIA Emerald on Page 22 https://www.energimyndigheten.se/Global/F%C3%B6retag/Ekodesign/Ekodesign/Datautrustning%20och%20servrar%20%28profesionella%29/BIO_ENTR%20Lot%209_Task%201_Draft%20final_05.09.2014.pdf
- Industry report and recommendation for ICT procurement directed at EMEA/EU - references to SNIA Emerald on Pages 10&11 http://ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/projects/sites/iee-projects/files/projects/documents/primeenergyit_procurement_guidance_en.pdf