Viable Options for Data Center Solutions

By Ning LiuOffering GroupPanduit APJ

Agenda

• Market Overview• Data Center Challengers• Business Drivers• Data Center Standards• Data Center Technologies• Panduit Solutions

Market Overview

By 2010, more than 70% of companies will have carri ed out a formal data center project (new, consolidatio n, virtualization) (Gartner )

Did you know: Half of the world’s Data Centers wil l run

out of power by 2008? (Gartner press release, November 29, 2006)

Typical situation: Data Center cost is 30% CapEx & 70% OpEx

Data Center Environmental Challenges

• Cooling• Power• Structured cabling• Structural loading

The nature of Data Center infrastructure makes it challenging to find solutions that don’t spawn other problems

Cooling Issues

• Today’s products are hotter than yesterday’s

• Tomorrow’s products will be hotter than today’s

• Data Center Managers prefer to tightly install equipment to fully utilize cabinet space

Power- Where is it going?

• Data Center Power Consumption:– Cooling: 50%– Server: 25%– Network Equipment: 12%– Power Loss: 10%– Lighting: 3%

• Approx 25% of Data Center Power goes to networking equipment and typically includes cooling and power requirement

Business Continues to Drive Data Centers

Post dot com spending Mission critical applicationsUptime requirementsSLA – Service Level AgreementsMobile ComputingRegulation / Directives

Answers to the Challenges

Design

Implementation

Operation

Data Center Standards

TIA/EIA568

Copper & Fiber Cabling

ANSI/TIA-942Telecommunications Infrastructure

Standard for Data Centers

TIA/EIA569

Pathways & Spaces

TIA/EIA606

Administration

TIA/EIA607

Grounding& Bonding

Uptime Institute

IEEE 1100ITE Grounding

ASHRAECooling/HVAC

TIA: Telecommunications Industry Association http://www.tiaonline.org/Uptime Institite: http://uptimeinstitute.org/Government work on server and DC Energy Efficiency:

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=prod_development.server_efficiency

Zone Dist Area

Horizontal Cabling

Telecom Room(Office & Operations Center LAN Switches)

Offices, Operations Center, Support

Rooms Entrance Room(Carrier Equip & Demarcation)

Access Providers Access

Providers

Horizontal Cabling

Equipment Dist Area

(Rack / Cabinet)

Equipment Dist Area

(Rack / Cabinet)

Equipment Dist Area

(Rack / Cabinet)

Equipment Dist Area

(Rack / Cabinet)

Horizontal CablingHorizontal Cabling

Horizontal Cabling Horizontal Cabling

Horiz Dist Area(LAN/SAN/KVM Switches)

Horiz Dist Area(LAN/SAN/KVM Switches)

Horiz Dist Area(LAN/SAN/KVM Switches)

Horiz Dist Area(LAN/SAN/KVM Switches)

Backbone Cabling

Main Dist Area(Routers/Backbone LAN/SAN Switches, PBX, M13 Muxes)

Computer Room

Backbone Cabling

Backbone Cabling

TIA-942 Data Center Logical Layout

TIA-942 Data Center Major Elements

Data Center Tier Levels

Tier IBasic

Tier IIRedundant

Components

Tier IIIConcurrently Maintainable

Tier IVFault Tolerant

Site Availability 99.671% 99.749% 99.982% 99.995%Downtime (Hours/Year) 28.8 22.0 1.6 0.4Operations Center Not Required Not Required Required RequiredRedundant Access Provider Services

Not Required Not Required Required Required

Redundant Backbone Pathways

No No Yes Yes

Redundant Horizontal Cabling

No No No Optional

UPS Redundancy N N+1 N+1 2NGaseous Suppression System

No NoClean Agents

FM200/IntergenClean Agents

FM200/Intergen

Panduit Confidential

DataCenterAC

COLDHOT

HOT

POWER CABLE

TELCOMCABLE TRAY

PERFORATEDFLOOR TILE

ServerCabinet

ServerCabinet

ServerCabinet

Put DATA cables in HOT aisles, up high

Date Center Air Flow

Based on ASHRAE “Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments”

Data Center Grounding Standards

• TIA-607 – specifies the building ground system to earth ground

• TIA-942 – specifies the grounding of the data racks and equipment to the the CBN

• IEEE 1100 – specifies the common bonding network (CBN) , (grounding grid below the raised floor)

Panduit Data Center Solution

�Energy Saving�Availability�Scalability�Security�Manageability

Data Center Design

• Challenges– Providing maximum uptime– Proper planning for growth– Technology upgrades– Rising costs (CapEx, OpEx)

• Panduit Solutions– TIA based– Certified Panduit partner base– Infrastructure expertise– Design tools AutoCad & Visio– Analysis tools

• Computational fluid dynamics for product development

• Cable pathway fill calculators• Product configurators• All products RoHS compliant

Implementation

• Racks and Cabinets– Maximize floor space density– Facilitate proper cooling practices– Install blanking panels to minimize hot

air recirculation (impacts delta degrees)

– Utilize floor grommets

>50% cold air escapes through unsealed cable holes and conduits

Implementation

• Cost savings– 1,500 sq. ft. Data Centre (36% space savings)– Tier 1 (approx. $450 / ft. sq.): $24,300– Tier 4 (approx. $1200 / ft. sq.): $64,800

– Based at 10% of entire floor space

•Reduce real estate costs by 23%•Reduce installation time with 46% less components

Implementation

• Cabinets– Prevalent in data centers– Applications: Servers and

switches (especially high density) – Aesthetically pleasing– Highly secured– Wide variety, modular– Cable density concerns

Floor tile footprint vs. additional benefits

– Thermal issues• Cooling airflow patterns

NET-ACCESS™ Cabinet with Duct Cabinet without Duct

• CFD analysis software image of front of cabinets:– Reduced switch temperature in the NET-ACCESS™ cabinet with ducting– Exhaust air prevented from re-circulating within cabinet

Implementation

Enabling Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle Designs with High Density 6509 and 9513 Chassis

Example Panduit Cabinet• 45RU (32”W x 40”D x 84”H)• Up to 20kW/cabinet heat

rejection capability• 3x6509’s or 3x9513’s per Rack• Front to back airflow into Hot

Aisles• Integrated Cable Management• Modular design to support

future air handlers or spot cooling

• Part # CN4-1 and CN4-2 for MDS 9513 and # CN4-3 for the Catalyst 6509E

Proven performanceEngineered by IBM with 30+ years in liquid cooling computersPassive operation

Increased densityRemoves up to 60% of heat, or 20kWAllows for high-density deployment

Energy efficientLessens burden on CRAC unitsMore efficient than fan based systems

Implementation

Implementation

Cabling plant– Develop a strategy (current and future) – Install the proper cable counts– Deploy a zone cabling configuration– Remove dead cables– Ribbon cables: reduce the overall cable counts and

bundle diameters

Server Port Configurations

3RU Servers 14 servers per cabinetDATA: 28 per cabinetOOBM: 14 per cabinetSAN: 28 per cabinet

1RU Servers 42 servers per cabinetLAN: 84 per cabinetOOBM: 42 per cabinetSAN: 84 per cabinet

Sparse 1 large serverDATA: 2 per cabinetOOBM: 1 per CabinetSAN: 2 per cabinet

Blade Servers84 servers per cabinetLAN: 168 per cabinetOOBM: 12 per cabinetSAN: 168 per cabinet

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Zone Cabling Solutions

BenefitsLess disruptiveFlexibilityPedestals create inherent infrastructure pathwaysGood utilization of real estatePatch field is hidden, clean lookIdeal for dynamic data Center environments (I.e., storage and mainframes)

Typical Data Cabling Topology per TIA/EIA-942

Entrance Room MDA

HDA

EDA

ZDA

Physical Layer Management-PanView

• Customers running mission critical applications whe re network downtime is very costly – PanView monitors critical data paths and can alert administrator s if/when unsolicited changes are

made

– Real-time visibility of the physical layer and guid ed patching allow PanView to help restore connectivity more quickly

• Customers concerned about highly sensitive data and other network security concerns– PanView monitors every switch port and server or ap pliance connection, logging information

about network access

– Assigning physical location information to network devices allow PanView to accurately track assets via network connectivity

ROUTERS SWITCHESPATCH PANELS

DEVICES

PanViewCiscoWorks

HPOV / Tivoli / CA Unicenter

Power over Ethernet-DPoE

DPoE™ Powered Patch Panel• Central Management of all Panels

• Selectively Shutdown Powered Ports• Graphical View of Power Consumption

• Scalability

– Medium to large enterprises require optimal space savings using DPoE Power Patch Panels.

– Small to medium businesses require flexibility and optimal size may choose the DPoE Power Hubs.

• Flexibility

– A call center will benefit from the Power Patch Panels since alldesks will have IP Telephones which require power.

– An office which moves personnel around will benefit from the flexibility of the Power Hub.

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6 Pair Switches

6 Pair Switches

Servers: 40326509 Switches: 30Server\Switch Cabinets: 399Midrange\SAN Cabinets Allotted For: 124

12 Server “PODs”Consists of the following:

4 Switch Cabinets for LAN & SAN32 Server Cabinets12 Servers per Server Cabinet

Modular Data Center Example

Modular Data Center Example

Total White Space: 14,400 sqFt

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LAN Appliances

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Summary

Global Presence

Technology Leader

Breadth of Products

Stable Organization

Partners / Alliances

Delivering Solutions Anywhere in the World

Innovative Product Sets, Large R&D Investment

Most Complete End-to-End Solutions

Responsive Culture (Innovation, Quality, Service)

Market Leaders (Development, Deployment and Distribution)

Thank You