Managing Sustainable IT
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Summary of Managing Sustainable IT
The Sustainable IT application is designed to help organizations manage and monitor emissions and energy consumption associated with their hardware assets. This application enables ESG program managers to track the sustainability performance of devices such as laptops, servers, and printers, providing insights to make informed decisions regarding asset management and sustainability practices.
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Key Features
- Emission and Energy Tracking: Monitor emissions and energy usage of hardware assets, aiding in assessing their operational sustainability impact.
- Dashboard Insights: Access a dashboard that displays electricity consumption, emissions data, and sustainability metrics for informed decision-making on asset retirement or repurposing.
- Metric Definitions: Collect data on hardware emissions and consumption using predefined metric definitions. Activate relevant metrics for comprehensive data collection.
- Data Collection Frequency: Data is collected monthly, ensuring up-to-date information on asset performance and sustainability.
- Configuration Requirements: Requires activation of Sustainable IT and Hardware Asset Management plugins, as well as the appropriate configuration of metric definitions and entities.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing the Sustainable IT application, hardware asset managers can make more sustainable purchasing decisions, focusing on assets with lower emissions and energy consumption. The dashboard simplifies the evaluation of the organization’s overall sustainability impact, facilitating the identification of the most efficient data centers and promoting environmentally friendly practices within IT operations.
The Sustainable IT application enables you to effectively manage and monitor the emissions generated by your hardware assets. Additionally, it enables you to keep track of the energy consumption of your assets and their proper disposal after they reach the end of their lifespan.
As an ESG program manager, the Sustainable IT application empowers you to track the sustainability performance of your hardware assets such as laptops, servers, desktops, printers and scanners, and so on. With this tool, you can easily monitor and assess the operational sustainability impact of your hardware assets. The application provides valuable insights through a dashboard, enabling you to make informed decisions on whether to retire or repurpose these assets. The dashboard also displays important data such as electricity consumption and emissions. To use the Sustainable IT application, you must install and activate the Sustainable IT (sn_esg_sustain) plugin and the Hardware Asset Management (sn_hamp) plugin.
With the Sustainable IT application, hardware asset managers can make informed decisions regarding asset purchases, focusing on reduced energy consumption. By providing insights into devices with the lowest emissions, the application enables managers to prioritize sustainability friendly choices.
Using this application, you can monitor your data center's emission performance and identify your most sustainable or greenest data centers.
To collect data of the hardware asset emissions, consumption, e-waste, and energy star assets, by default, 27 metric definitions such as Energy from solar power, Energy from biomass, and so on are provided. You must activate those metric definitions for which you want to collect data and configure your entities appropriately so that the correct data is collected and displayed. The data is always collected on a monthly basis and is only displayed for the completed metric data.
- Activate all metric definitions grouped under “Dex-Real Time Emissions” and ensure all required details are filled in.
- Assign appropriate entities (locations/models) to each metric definition.
- For emissions-related metrics configure the emission factor “CO2 equivalent from Purchased Electricity eGRID” from the eGRID source via Content Accelerator.Note:Confirm that the emission factor’s location matches the asset location records. If no emission factor is found for a location, the calculated value will be zero usage-of-emission-factors-in-a-calculated-metric-definition.html#usage-of-emission-factors-in-a-calculated-metric-definition__ul_nhx_5t3_fdc.
- Set the metric period date to the previous month.Note:DEX agents report the previous day's energy consumption data (example, September 15 data is sent on September 16). If the metric period is not set properly, data may be labeled with incorrect dates (example, May's data appearing under June dates).