RE: [saf] SAF Use cases for CEP, GreenIT, Energy, etc

["Vaught, Jeffrey A" <Jeffrey.Vaught@ca.com>]

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From: Mike Baskey [mailto:mbaskey@us.ibm.com] 

Here's my Energy/Green IT use case - appreciate feedback

Abstract:  As IT customers and cities look at challenges of addressing
restrictions on their overall energy utilization and their ability to react
to changing utility prices and supply constraints, the instrumentation of
the energy delivery system enables symptoms to enhance the early detection
of outages and overruns and taking preventive actions to avoid larger
outages.  Making these sensitive to the business operations and other
priorities (e.g. maintaining emergency facilities) are critical
requirements so that tradeoffs can be made by both the consumer and the
suppliers.  One interesting aspect to consider is that maintenance
schedules for equipment is an important element of ensuring resources which
can affect the availability of the Grid are current on maintenance so
monitoring compliance and factoring that into overall syndrome.

Use Case 1: Automation of Energy Distribution Optimization and Outage
Avoidance
      -          Actors: Energy Utility Provider, Data Center Customer,
      Vendor Suppliers, City Planner, FEMA
      -          Policy: Energy budget for Customers, priorities for who to
      reduce when energy reaches threshhold
      -          Dynamic Composition of SAF Catalog:
            o   Energy Provider contributes Protocols, ie: “increase
            capacity”, “reduce capacity”, etc. for businesses, homes,
            government facilities (e.g. nuclear power plant)
            o   Business (DC) Consumer contributes Syndrome (with signature
            based upon Symptoms he will emit), Data Center Over Energy
            Budget
            *          Vendor supplier publishes list of symptoms they emit
            (e.g. Power supply failure, Server over Budget, Network over
            Budget, etc.)
            *          Vendor supplies list of protocols "schedule
            maintenance"
            o   City Planner and FEMA gets list of advertised Protocols
            from the Catalog (monitor in context of overall GRID and
            special consumers).
            o   City Planner references “reduce capacity” Protocol to his
            “Avoid GRID outage” Syndrome.
            o   Customer activates Syndrome "avoid Data Center Outage".
      -          Business <-> Operations Bridge:
            o   Business elements
                  §  Protocols for “increase capacity”, “reduce capacity”
                  §  Syndrome for “Power outage/brownout”
                  *          Syndrome for "GRID overload"
            o   Corresponding Operational elements
                  §  Prescription associated with “increase capacity”
                        ·         Evaluate short-term load in context of
                        budget
                        ·         If load is predicted to be low – deny;
                        Otherwise…
                        ·         Allocate VM from resource pool
                        ·         Bring online
                  §   Symptoms associated with “avoid outage”
                        ·         Workload performance (track compliance to
                        SLAs)
                        ·         System performance and utilization


Michael E. Baskey
IBM Distinguished Engineer
Chief Architect Systems Management Standards +Open Source Strategy
TC Member IBM Academy of Technology
Chairman DMTF Board of Directors
845-435-1927 or 8-295-1927
mbaskey@us.ibm.com