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THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY SPACES
Dave McGrath
Director Business Development
Construction, Facilities and Engineering Division
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"The fatal conceit with managers is that tomorrow will look like today..."Peter Druker
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Are we designing towards, or away from future problems?
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More…
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More…
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High Density – today’s problem
High Density Requirements Increasing power Increasing need for cooling Increasing runtime Increase need for
redundancyBlade Servers
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High-density is going to bite your customer
It’s not if, it’s when!
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“Catch 22” for IT managers
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
Excessive heat
Insufficient power
Insufficient raised floor
Excessive facility cost
Poor location
None of the above
What is the greatest facility problem with your primary data center? (Source: Gartner, 2006)
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IT Facilities
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How will it be solved
With a Clear and Concise language on Scalable, Modular datacenter design.
Rack, Power, and Cooling Infrastructure will be designed using pre-engineered modular components and configuration tools
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Traditional Design
Unable to Respond adequately to today’s growing power and
heat loads
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We must re-tool the design process
PowerCoolingService
Engineering
SpaceImprovements
Racks
Thinking about Data Centers “by the square foot” is obsolete
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Blade Server Power Draw
Watts per Chassis by Blade Model
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
# of Chassis (Max to a 42U Rack)
Max
Po
wer
Su
pp
ly W
atts
IBM
HP
Dell
Sun
733 W/SF
500 W/SF
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18 kWPOWER
18kW
(Assume dual-corded blade chassis)
30-amp circuits208 / 230 V
18 kWCOOLING
Density Power & Cooling Challenges
3 kW
3 kW
3 kW
3 kW
3 kW
3 kW
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2500 cfm
18kW
3 kW
3 kW
3 kW
3 kW
3 kW
3 kW
2500 cfm
The Cooling Challenge
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Grate tile
Blade Servers
Standard IT Equipment
WithEffort
TypicalCapability Extreme Impractical
12
10
8
6
4
2
00 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
[47.2] [94.4] [141.6] [188.8] [236.0] [283.2] [330.4] [377.6] [424.8] [471.9]
Limits of Floor Tile Cooling
500-700 cfm
Additionally requiresgrate-type tiles
Perf tile
RackPower(kW)
that can becooled by one tile with this
airflow
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Traditional Configuration
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Room-oriented cooling airflow patterns
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In Row Configuration (Coupled Cooling)
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Row-oriented cooling airflow patterns
Predictable Performance
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Alternative cooling architectures
Method Application Density
Traditional room-oriented raised floor cooling
Low density
Very flexible
1-5kW per rack
In-row Medium density
General use
3-15kW per rack
In-row with hot aisle containment
Very high density
Targeted zones
Assured redundancy
10-25kW per rack
Rack-coupled Very high density specific racks
Mix of very high and low density
20-45kW per rack
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Why is it so critical to address during design?
Cooling problem
Efficiency problem
Rate of change problem
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In-row rack-coupled architecture
InfraStruXure Cooling Distribution Unit
“Coupled” to adjacent IT racks
Up to 40kW rating today with efficient designs
Higher availability via N+1 standards
Predictable performance
Mix into existing legacy data center
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IDC: Time to push ‘reboot’ button…
“…it appears that it will be cheaper to build new
datacenters to accommodate blades than to attempt to retrofit
the existing ones…”
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It is getting to the CEO’s plate…
“Power will be #1 design issue for many IT shops over next two to three years…”
“RFG predicts that power and cooling costs will increase to more than one-third of the total IT budget. This will elevate this cost element into a priority position for CFOs, facilities managers, and IT executives.”
“Coordination with facilities management is crucial to successful power and cooling planning”
-Robert Frances Group, January 06
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We must all pay close attention…
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Density is driving an unprecedented collision between IT, Facilities and vendors
We have a shared problem
The traditional solutions won’t work, and the typical solution providers are either focused on making the problem worse or hoping it goes away
The shared problem is getting bigger and hairier by the minute
We need a shared language to promote learning
Learning offers an opportunity for standardization, leading to lower costs, higher availability, and much greater productivity
Everyone has to decide if they are part of the problem or part of the solution
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Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure (NCPI)
Essential foundation of
reliability
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Rack Power
Implement designs with a completely scalable and modular approach at the rack level Rack Power delivery must be scalable in response to
density variation Rack Power must be redundant (UPS N+1 or greater) Rack Power design must be completely flexible in
configuration and voltage
The Rack is the Basic Building Block of any IT deployment.
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Design the rack accordingly
Rack Configuration: Select rack IT actual loads
reflected in design
Simulate 3rd party equipment
Model power Model airflow
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Scale & Manage Power at the Rack
Switched Rack PDU
Control individual outlets Turn unused
outlets off Recycle power to
locked-up equipment
1.4 kW - 12.5 kW, 15A - 50A, Horizontal or Vertical Mount
Monitor current Avoid overloads Balance loads
across phases
Sequence power-on Avoid in-rush current
Power high-density racks Multi-branch
units supports 12.5kW
Fit up to 4 units in one rack
42 outlets on one strip
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Manage at the Row / Room
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Rack Cooling
Eliminate the unpredictable nature of traditional cooling architectures in dense environments
Closely couple the IT load with cooling capacity Increase Capacity per rack Increase Cooling Efficiency
Model the cooling requirements from day 1 and be prepared to adapt to change
Power In equals Heat Out design in accordance with the dynamic nature of the load
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CFD model of in-row with Hot Aisle Containment: Modeling failure of one CRAC
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Rack-by-rack airflow analysis for various failure conditions in real time during designin real time during design
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Building Management
System
Enterprise Management
SystemNetwork Devices
Storage Devices
Server Devices
Server Manager
Storage Manager
Network Manager
Building Power Comfort Air
Building Environment
Power DevicesRack Devices
Cooling Devices
InfraStruXure® Manager
Integrate it all into Your Management Architecture
Building Management System IntegrationManage critical building infrastructure from single system via modbus RTU
Enterprise Management System IntegrationForward SNMP traps to your preferred management system
Manage Network-Critical Physical
InfrastructureSimilar to server, storage and
networking equipment.
Scalability Manage up to 1000
APC networked devices
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Summary
“Man must sit in chair for very long time before roast duck fly in mouth…” Chinese Proverb
Take Action …understand the Rack Level challenges and design accordingly!
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And of course…Look out for the Shark!
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#130#130 The Advantage of Row and Rack-Oriented Cooling Architectures for Data Centers
#131#131 Improved Chilled Water Piping Distribution Methodology for Data Centers
#125#125 Strategies for Deploying Blade Servers in Existing Data Centers
#43#43 Dynamic Power Variations in Data Centers and Network Rooms
For further information on these topicsconsult APC white papers at www.apc.com