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Case or Enclosure

Characteristics

Name Unit Default value Description Example
units None 1 power supply quantity 2
usage None See Usage See usage ..
case_type None rack Type of enclosure (blade or rack) blade

Embedded impacts

Impacts criteria

Criteria Implemented Source
gwp yes Green Cloud Computing, 2021
adp yes Green Cloud Computing, 2021
pe yes Green Cloud Computing, 2021
gwppb no
gwppf no
gwpplu no
ir no
lu no
odp no
pm no
pocp no
wu no
mips no
adpe no
adpf no
ap no
ctue no
ctuh_c no
ctuh_nc no
epf no
epm no
ept no

Impact factors

The embedded impacts of a rack server:

enclosureembeddedcriteria=rackembeddedcriteria

The embedded impact of a blade server:

enclosureembeddedcriteria=bladeembeddedcriteria+blade_enclosureembeddedcriteria16

With :

Constant Unit Value
rackembeddedgwp kgCO2eq 150
rackembeddedadp kgSbeq 2.02E-02
rackembeddedpe MJ 2 200.00
bladeembeddedgwp kgCO2eq 30.90
bladeembeddedadp kgSbeq 6.72E-04
bladeembeddedpe MJ 435.00
blade_enclosureembeddedgwp kgCO2eq 880.00
blade_enclosureembeddedadp kgSbeq 4.32E-01
blade_enclosureembeddedpe MJ 12 700.00

Usage impacts

Only power consumption is implemented. In most cases, enclosure doesn't consume electricity.