Introduction to Data Center

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Presented by: Muhammad Azzuan bin Mat Reffien

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 Reliance on Data Centers is increasing and is driven by these major trends

Digital Internet of Data Edge

TRAFFIC THINGS SOVEREIGNITY COMPUTING

3x Growth of global data 20.8B connected

Up to 4% of total annual
40% of IoT data will
center IP traffic over next 5 things by 2020 turnover can be fined for failing to be stored, processed, analyzed
years comply with EU’s GDPR by 2018 and acted upon at the edge

Source : Cisco Cloud Index Report 2015 Source : Gartner, 2016 Source: EU Data Protection Reform Source : IDC WW IoT Predictions, 2015

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Business
NEED
 DataCentre Trends
Average existing Data Centres PUE above 2 will make them
obsolete within 5 years, no captive IT loads anymore.
Large Outsourcing DataCentres replacing smaller in-house Data
Centres.
Pressure to reduce OpEx while maintaining availability versus
Instable grids and higher electricity price
Virtualization & cloud computing, overall complexity increase
In-row cooling gaining from room cooling for higher efficiency
Uncertainty on 20 years life cycle and time of deployment
pressure make Modularity & Scalability a MUST for
DataCentres
The mix of Trends leads to the need
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for Intelligently planned Solutions
Let’s step back for one minute on efficiency
We are building data center What are the criteria of your
to support business strategy datacenter that best support your
Business strategy?

And? Or?

How confident are you on your How do we bring all the teams
assumptions? together?
IT Facility, Operations, Business

It is a 20 Years
Life Cycle The human element
that ties it all together

Foundational BUSINESS OVERVIEW Rev 4a

 How to Startup a Simple Server Room?
• Secure Room Gense
Electrical PDU Batt UPS F t
• Security Door TX

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• Electrical System
• UPS System

FAP
Rack Rack CH
• Server/Network Rack

A/C
• Cooling System Rack Rack CH

• Fire Protection System Rack Rack DX

A/C
• Aspiration Smoke Detection Rack Rack DX
• Water Leak Detection
• CCTV
• Genset
• Transformer
• Rack Accessories
• Raised Floor
• Etc…
Power Usage Effectiveness Calculation
What is PUE??
PUE = Total Facility Load (including IT Load, cooling/lighting and electrical systems)
divided by the IT Load.
It is not enough to look at Efficient
Components any more…

Purchasing Criteria went from just

« buying the best UPS »

TO

Total DataCentre Performance,

Cost Efficiency,
Speed & Modularity of
construction ,
Total Cost of Ownership
 Automated and Intelligent DC Management

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Data Center Environmental Monitoring
Data Center Physical Threats
 NetBotz - Security and Environmental Monitoring
“consists of rack mount and wall mount appliances
designed to provide a wide range of environmental
monitoring and surveillance for sensitive equipment”

Environmental Monitoring Sensors & Signals Sensor pods and coordinators

Both wired and wireless sensors for monitoring. Flexibility in installation and deployment scope

Sensor Pod 150

Connect these sensor pods via A-
link to add up to 36 additional wired
sensors

Wireless Wired Spot Fluid Dry Wireless Sensor Pod

Temperature Temperature Contact Wireless coordinator supporting built in
& Humidity & Humidity temperature and humidity sensing and
up to three additional wired sensors.

Wireless Coordinator and

Router
Joins Zigbee network automatically when
connected by USB; has a 33m range.
Smoke Rack Door Beacon Additional coordinators are used as a router
Access Contact to scale installations.
 NetBotz - Security and Environmental Monitoring

NetBotz 250 NetBotz 570

- Small & Medium Area - Large Data Center

- Environmental Monitoring - Environmental Monitoring
- Rack Access Control (1) - Rack Access Control (13)
- Cameras (4 USB, 4 Network)
- Supported up to 6 sensor pods - Supported up to 12 sensor pods
- Supported up to 42 sensors - Supported up to 78 sensors
- Supported up to 47 wireless devices - Supported up to 47 wireless devices
- Supported up to 13 rack access pods
 IP NETWORK
A single NetBotz Appliance
requires only one IP
An Overall Application Guides
Address
Email /
SMS
Notificatio
n
ZIGBEE WIRELESS

USB Wirelessly manage up

Supporting Up To to 50 feet
(4) USB Cameras (47) T and/or TH Sensors
A-LINK

Rope Leak Sensor Beacon Alarm

(dedicated port) (dedicated
port) Daisy-chain up to
(12) Sensor Pods
(13) Access Pods

Rack Access
Rack Access Rack Access
Control
Control Control

Temp/ Temp/
Humidity Temp/ Humidity
Humidity
Temp/ Temp/
humidity Temp/ Temp/ humidity
Smoke
Spot humidity Humidity
Door Fluid Dry
Spot contact Temp/ Temp/
contact
Fluid Door Spot humidity Humidity
Dry
contact Fluid Vibration contact
 NetBotz - Integration With Third Party Device
● Aspirating Smoke Detection
● Fire Protection System
● Water Detection System
● Card Access System
● Generator
● Mechanical
● Chiller
● Pump
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HQ

IP
Network Cloud

Ethernet
Switch Remote Site

Network
Management Card Modbus Gateway
NetBotz

Environmental Monitoring Third Party Device

•Temperature & Humidity •Chiller
•CCTV •WDS
•Dry Contact •HSSD
•Vibration •Power Meter
•Leak Rope •Switchboard
UPS InRow •Door Access
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
• Allows the user visibility into the data center assets
• An inventory management device which shows data within the physical layout
• Analyze, design, implement, operate and evaluate data center facilities
• Release the potential for energy savings
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

Alarms within
physical layout

Inventory
Management

Global Asset
Search
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

IT Equipment
Guidance

Available
Capacity

Business
Impact
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

Schedule
Change

Rack Space
Reservation
 Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

3D Airflow
Simulation
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

Before Cooling Optimize After Cooling Optimize

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
“bridge the gap between facility and IT”

Facility IT
Management Management
Data Centre Infrastructure Management
(DCIM)

Server Management
Power Management

VM Management
Cooling Control

IT Tickets
CMDB
BMS
EcoStruxureTM IT Advisor
Data center infrastructure planning and modeling solution

September 2020

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 EcoStruxure IT Advisor is …

”
… a data center infrastructure planning and modeling
solution that provides Data Center Managers in large
enterprises and colocation data centers with full insights into
their infrastructure to improve profitability, efficiency and
availability”

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Planning and modeling software
Automation that unlocks new business models and HUGE POTENTIAL for Data Center managers and
system integrators in four key areas

SAFETY
INFORMATION PROFITABILITY EFFICIENCY AVAILABILITY

Optimize temperatures
Analytics
- Insights
$ & asset lifespan - ROI Efficient Operations Limit risk of downtime
-Comparisons
-Trends

Reduce power consumers

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 EcoStruxure IT Advisor: Measurable Benefits for Data Centers
More specifically as an EcoStruxure PAC it integrates with other innovative interoperable products at
every level to …
EcoStruxure IT Advisor

APPS,
Apps,
ANALYTICS
Analytics
&&Services
SERVICES
$
Optimize Reduce power Limit risk of
Edge Control
Edge Control temperatures & consumers downtime
asset lifespan Identify and eliminate 25% of all data centers
Achieve a three zombie servers to have experienced an
year ROI of 180%* save up to 30% on outage within the last
by adjusting the power, cooling, year** – reduce the
temperature in the maintenance and downtime by
data center to the license cost. understanding your
ideal setting. UPS and data center
capacity constraints
Connected
Connected
Products
Products

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** Source: Uptime Institute, Data Center Industry Survey, May 2017
 Top 3 problems solved by EcoStruxure IT Advisor

Delayed server deployment Downtime Location, location, location

Capacity optimization Proactive simulation of changes Inventory management

Assures that your physical Analyzes data center infrastructure Provides an overview of the physical
infrastructure provides the and highlights redundancy location of assets as well as its
redundancy, backup time and vulnerabilities through impact relation to the environment for full
availability required. simulation visibility into your data center.

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 IT Advisor is available
Stay on top of everything cloud-based and
on-premise
IT Advisor enables…

Capacity planning Risk planning

Know where to place the Can you safely shut down
next server by planning a device or do you need
and analyzing the to reduce the IT load
infrastructure. first? The Impact
Analysis report indicates
how incidents may impact
Change management your devices and Colocation
Reduce human error and infrastructure. Understand the current
deploy best practice state of your colocation
across all moves, adds, infrastructure. IT Advisor
and change with offers floor view with
workflow automation. areas, cages and racks,
and IT assets colored
according to status, along
with detailed floor and
rack utilization reports.

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The power of the Cloud

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Why moving to the cloud?
The Cloud solves convenient challenges

Scalability

Capex VS Opex

Scheduled back-up and upgrade

Scheduled security patches downloads

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 The power of the cloud

The biggest challenge is keeping everything good

(normal operating status) because it’s not just
monitoring the alarm, the alerts, etc., it’s resolving them.
Customer – 451 Research, 2017

Access from Automatic

Easy to anywhere, Pay as Maintenance Up-to-date software updates
get started at anytime you grow free cyber security and backup

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Components
EcoStruxure IT Advisor

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 Available cloud-based
IT Advisor (formerly known as Colo in StruxureWare Data Center Operation) and on-premise

Operations Management

Data center optimization Manage data center assets, operational and capital costs
• Floor and rack management
• CAD import Features Benefits
• Asset management Inventory management Shows device data within the physical layout for instant access to device details and
• Change management asset attributes, and overview of data center operations. Integrates with HP
OneView and HP uCMDB (available on-premise only)
• Capacity planning
• Risk planning IT equipment guidance / Instant server placement recommendation through real-time analysis of available
change and capacity data center capacity, including power, cooling, u-space, network and power ports,
• Reporting capacity strategies, weight limits and more.
• Energy cost
Automated work order Create work orders and automatically generate tasks to move, add or change IT
• Advanced power setups process and infrastructure equipment. Schedule, assign and track the status of itemized
• Server Usage Optimization tasks to implement changes in the data center.
• High availability Consolidated data center Gain transparency to data center key performance indicators through easily
• Cage management dashboard configured web dashboards, displaying customizable management-level information
• Customer info Audit trail Track all IT and facility equipment changes over the data center lifecycle, ensuring
• Energy consumption tracking transparency and easy identification of maintenance requirements.
• Tenant Portal Web client Allows the user visibility into the data center assets, power usage and power
capacity using any modern web browser

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 Available cloud-based
IT Advisor: Capacity and on-premise

Simulation, planning, and optimization of infrastructure capacities to right-size the data center

Features Benefits
IT equipment guidance Instant server placement recommendation through real-time analysis
of available data center capacity.

Available capacity Global view of available capacity within an organizational context,

providing an instant calculation of actual space, power and cooling
consumption, power and network port availability and floor and rack
weight limits against overall data center capacity constraints
Business impact Shows the consequence of device failure on data center infrastructure
equipment for instant identification of critical business application
impacts.

3D airflow analysis Track all cage and facility equipment changes over the data center
lifecycle, ensuring transparency and easy identification of
maintenance requirements.

Virtualization Integrations with VMware vSphere and HP OneView from the IT layer
capabilities and the physical infrastructure layer, enabling data center managers
to automatically migrate their impacted virtual machines from an
impacted host server to a healthy host server (available on-premise
only).

Predicted Power Provides rack and breaker level capacity planning and provides the
potential to unlock stranded capacity as estimated load values are
automatically derived from actual power measurements.

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 Available cloud-based
IT Advisor: Change and on-premise

Fully integrated workflow management for your IT physical infrastructure

Features Benefits
Automated work Create work orders and automatically generate
order process tasks to move, add or change IT and infrastructure
equipment.

Advance Users can now design, allowing them to set up

workflow template both parallel and sequential workflows and the
dependencies between the individual tasks.

Asset audit trail Track asset moves, adds and changes by

date/time, owner and work orders for view, print
and export.
Change Interactive interface showing past and pending
management changes to assist with resource and workload
overview balancing, avoiding scheduling conflicts.

Link tickets to Associate BMC Remedy change tickets: Change

work orders work orders, as well as view and filter BMC
Remedy tickets for an overview of current work
load.

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 Available on-premise
IT Advisor: IT Optimize
In-depth optimization of server utilization for increased data center performance and reduced IT system energy usage

Features Benefits
IT power and Determine the business usefulness for all IT assets
utilization helps eliminate underutilized servers and maximize
monitoring IT capacity at the rack, row and room level.

Track Reduce costs by eliminating unnecessary servers

underutilized and maximize efficiency and rack capacity.
servers
Server usage Enables businesses to capture and assign IT costs
chargeback to individual departments for accurate billing
support down to the physical or virtual server level.
GenomeTM library The continuously growing asset library enables the
software to determine power consumption without
the aid of hardware sensors.

Power / CPU Provides auto-discovery of assets managed by

utilization Cisco UCS Manager, enabling data center
managers to monitor the CPU/power utilization
along side utilization at the physical infrastructure.

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 Module comparison of ITA on-premise / ITA cloud-based

Product
Module
ITA ON-PREMISE ITA CLOUD-BASED

Base software IT Advisor IT Advisor

(Formerly known as Colo in StruxureWare Data Center Operation) (Formerly known as Colo in StruxureWare Data Center Operation)

Capacity
Simulation, optimization, and planning of infrastructure
capacities

Change
Change management with fully integrated workflow
automation

Energy Cost
Cost calculation for running specified equipment for charge * *
back and efficient budgeting

High Availability
Cluster environment management
* *
IT Optimize (ITO)
Solution for integration with external IT systems

* Merged into the base module and no longer appears as a separate module. It is included in the cost of the base software.
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Simplify and speed up your on-site visits with the
EcoStruxure IT Advisor web app
Accessible from any modern web browser

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 Simplify and speed up your on-site visits with the EcoStruxure IT Advisor
web app, accessible from any modern web browser
Available now

Create rooms and locations Floor properties

Model your data center on the go. Create a server Access a wide range of information about your data
room, an electrical room, a supporting infrastructure center floor in one single view. It includes general,
space, a storage room or a location. Give it a name physical, power, labels, audit trail, sensors, custom
and define its shape and properties. properties and customer information.

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 Simplify and speed up your on-site visits with the EcoStruxure IT Advisor
web app, accessible from any modern web browser
Available now

Network Asset coloring

Reduce connectivity complexity: Set a label with a color for floor and rack-mounted asset for
• See network connections in the web client easy identification.
• Easily see the full network path of a specific port
• Editing, cable visualization and more coming soon
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 Simplify and speed up your on-site visits with the EcoStruxure IT Advisor
web app, accessible from any modern web browser
Available now

Asset visuals 3D view (preview) Asset search (equipment browser)

Upload front and A modern, high-performing 3D view that Quickly locate equipment:
rear asset visuals includes visualization of power cables • Global search across all rooms and locations
• Multi-edit properties in the web client
within the rack • Export the data to Excel
• Co-lo feature: Search for a specific customer

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