The University of Texas at Austin

University Data Center

Service Delivery Reporting

Service Availability

Data center availability: 100%

Network Service Level Agreement: 99.9%

Network availability year-to-date: 99.972%

Key Performance Indicators

This table lists some key measurements tracked in the data center.

University Data Center Key Performance Indicators (Previous Three Months)
  August 2011 September 2011 October 2011
PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness)1 1.43 1.59 1.57
Average water evaporated per 7-day week (gallons)2 28,338* 97,024 117,215
Average total water used per 7-day week (gallons) 67,450 226,755 211,315
Carbon tons   19.9 23.3
Network Availability 100% 100% 100%
Network traffic in/out of rows (terabytes) 913 904 951
Total Devices3 763 793+ 786

* Cooling tower water set point adjusted in August to a lower temperature to increase efficiency and mechanical capacity.

+Jump in count reflects a correction in how devices are counted to increase accuracy.

Networking Status Reports

UDC-C Network Status Report - Year-to-Date

October 2011 UDC-Network Status Report

September 2011 UDC-C Network Status Report

August 2011 UDC-C Network Status Report

July 2011 UDC-C Network Status Report

June 2011 UDC-C Network Status Report

May 2011 UDC-C Network Status Report

April 2011 UDC-C Network Status Report

March 2011 UDC-C Network Status Report

Notes

1See the Wikipedia article on Power usage effectiveness

2Evaporation of water used for cooling reduces the load on waste-water facilities.

3Excludes network and power equipment

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