Viable Options for Data Center Solutions

By Ning Liu
Offering Group
Panduit 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 carried

out a formal data center project (new, consolidation,
virtualization) (Gartner)

Did you know: Half of the world’s Data Centers will 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 applications
Uptime requirements
SLA – Service Level Agreements
Mobile Computing
Regulation / Directives
Answers to the Challenges

Design

Implementation

Operation
 Data Center Standards

ANSI/TIA-942
Telecommunications Infrastructure
Standard for Data Centers

TIA/EIA TIA/EIA TIA/EIA TIA/EIA

568 569 606 607
Copper & Fiber Pathways Administration Grounding
Cabling & Spaces & Bonding

ASHRAE IEEE 1100

Uptime ITE Grounding
Cooling/HVAC
Institute

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
 TIA-942 Data Center Logical Layout

Offices, Operations Access Entrance Room Access

Center, Support Providers
Rooms
(Carrier Equip & Providers
Demarcation)

Horizontal Backbone Cabling

Cabling
Computer
Telecom Room Main Dist Area
(Office & Operations
Backbone Cabling (Routers/Backbone Room
Center LAN Switches) LAN/SAN Switches,
PBX, M13 Muxes) Backbone Cabling

Horiz Dist Area

(LAN/SAN/KVM
Switches)
Horizontal Horiz Dist Area Horiz Dist Area Horiz Dist Area
Cabling (LAN/SAN/KVM (LAN/SAN/KVM (LAN/SAN/KVM
Switches) Switches) Switches)
Zone Dist Area
Horizontal Horizontal Cabling Horizontal Cabling Horizontal Cabling
Cabling

Equipment Dist Equipment Dist Equipment Dist Equipment Dist

Area Area Area Area
(Rack / Cabinet) (Rack / Cabinet) (Rack / Cabinet) (Rack / Cabinet)
TIA-942 Data Center Major Elements
 Data Center Tier Levels

Tier II Tier III

Tier I Tier IV
Redundant Concurrently
Basic Fault Tolerant
Components Maintainable
Site Availability 99.671% 99.749% 99.982% 99.995%
Downtime (Hours/Year) 28.8 22.0 1.6 0.4
Operations Center Not Required Not Required Required Required
Redundant Access
Not Required Not Required Required Required
Provider Services
Redundant Backbone
No No Yes Yes
Pathways
Redundant Horizontal
No No No Optional
Cabling
UPS Redundancy N N+1 N+1 2N
Gaseous Suppression Clean Agents Clean Agents
No No
System FM200/Intergen FM200/Intergen
 Date Center Air Flow

Put DATA cables in HOT aisles, up high

Server Server Server

Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet
COLD HOT
Data
Center HOT
AC PERFORATED
FLOOR TILE

TELCOM
CABLE TRAY

POWER CABLE

Based on ASHRAE “Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments”

Panduit Confidential
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

•Reduce real estate costs

by 23%
• Cost savings •Reduce installation time
with 46% less components
– 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
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
Implementation

• 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

NET-ACCESS™ Cabinet with Duct Cabinet without Duct

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
Implementation

Proven performance
Engineered by IBM with 30+ years in liquid
cooling computers
Passive operation
Increased density
Removes up to 60% of heat, or 20kW
Allows for high-density deployment
Energy efficient
Lessens burden on CRAC units
More efficient than fan based systems
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
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Sparse 3RU Servers 1RU Servers Blade Servers

1 large server 14 servers per cabinet 42 servers per cabinet 84 servers per cabinet
DATA: 2 per cabinet DATA: 28 per cabinet LAN: 84 per cabinet LAN: 168 per cabinet
OOBM: 1 per Cabinet OOBM: 14 per cabinet OOBM: 42 per cabinet OOBM: 12 per cabinet
SAN: 2 per cabinet SAN: 28 per cabinet SAN: 84 per cabinet SAN: 168 per cabinet
Zone Cabling Solutions

Benefits
Entrance
Room
MDA

Less disruptive HDA

Flexibility EDA

Pedestals create inherent

infrastructure pathways
Good utilization of real estate
ZDA
Typical Data Cabling Topology per TIA/EIA-942

Patch field is hidden, clean look

Ideal for dynamic data Center
environments (I.e., storage and
mainframes)
Physical Layer Management-PanView

• Customers running mission critical applications where network downtime is very costly
– PanView monitors critical data paths and can alert administrators if/when unsolicited changes are
made
– Real-time visibility of the physical layer and guided 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 appliance connection, logging information
about network access
– Assigning physical location information to network devices allow PanView to accurately track
assets via network connectivity
ROUTERS SWITCHES DEVICES
PATCH PANELS

CiscoWorks PanView

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 all
desks will have IP Telephones which require power.
– An office which moves personnel around will benefit from the
flexibility of the Power Hub.
 Modular Data Center Example

12 Server “PODs” Servers: 4032

Consists of the following: 6509 Switches: 30
4 Switch Cabinets for LAN & SAN Server\Switch Cabinets: 399
32 Server Cabinets Midrange\SAN Cabinets Allotted For: 124
12 Servers per Server Cabinet
Core 1 Core 2

Agg1 Agg2 Agg3 Agg4

Acc1 Acc2 Acc11 Acc12 Acc13 Acc14 Acc23 Acc24

6 Pair 6 Pair
Switches Switches

336 Servers 336 Servers 336 Servers 336 Servers

Modular Data Center Example

Total White Space:

14,400 sqFt
Modular Data Center Example

Equipment Distribution
Area (EDA)

Single “POD”
Acc1 Acc2

336 Servers
Modular Data Center Example
EDA Application Photo
Modular Data Center Example

Horizontal Distribution
Area (HDA)

Single “POD”
Acc1 Acc2

336 Servers
Modular Data Center Example
HDA Application Photo
Modular Data Center Example--EDA

Core 1 Core 2
Core Routing\Firewalls
LAN Appliances
Agg1 Agg2 Agg3 Agg4
SAN Directors
Modular Data Center Example
CFD Analysis
Summary

Global Presence Delivering Solutions Anywhere in the World

Technology Leader Innovative Product Sets, Large R&D Investment

Breadth of Products Most Complete End-to-End Solutions

Stable Organization Responsive Culture (Innovation, Quality, Service)

Partners / Alliances Market Leaders (Development, Deployment and Distribution)

Thank You