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Chapter 1a

The document discusses data centers, which are facilities used to house large amounts of computer and communications equipment for an organization's operations. A data center is also known as a server farm or computer room. It provides the infrastructure for servers and storage and is where the majority of an enterprise's servers and storage are located, operated, and managed. The document then goes on to discuss the history of data centers and how server technology has evolved from individual servers and server rooms to blade servers and modern virtualized data centers with issues around increasing power loads and cooling needs.

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Chapter 1a

The document discusses data centers, which are facilities used to house large amounts of computer and communications equipment for an organization's operations. A data center is also known as a server farm or computer room. It provides the infrastructure for servers and storage and is where the majority of an enterprise's servers and storage are located, operated, and managed. The document then goes on to discuss the history of data centers and how server technology has evolved from individual servers and server rooms to blade servers and modern virtualized data centers with issues around increasing power loads and cooling needs.

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Data Center

Operational and
Services
Introduction to
Data Center

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Data Center
Mission critical site.
A facility used for housing a large amount of computer and
communications equipment maintained by an organization
for the purpose of handling the data necessary for its
operations.
It is also known as the server farm or the computer room, the
data center is where the majority of an enterprise servers and
storage are located, operated and managed.
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History of DC
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PC

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Matt%20Flowerday%20Workshop.pdf
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Servers & Server Rooms

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ca/Matt%20Flowerday%20Workshop.pdf
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Followed by this Chaos!

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Cooling the room

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Next

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erday%20Workshop.pdf
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Pizza Box Servers

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Blade Servers

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Origin Design

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Getting Hotter & Hotter

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Power Load

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Modern Data Center

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3D Virtualization

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DC Market Continues to Grow

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Modern DC Issues

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N+1 Electrical Design

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N+1 and next tiers read additional reading as below or any journals:
Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business, Pg. 19, Douglas Alger (2005)
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Load increases

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N+1 Design

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‘N’ Design

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1 unit fail

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Now you think about it….

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