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Views: 102 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2022-07-29 Origin: Site
What kind of data center is a truly intelligent modular data center?
Let's first understand the background of the creation of modular data center
The promotion of cloud computing, Internet of Things, big data and other high technologies has led to the expansion of data center market scale, and also put forward higher requirements for data center infrastructure. With the development of business and the increase of applications, the drawbacks of slow construction and difficult operation and maintenance of traditional data centers are gradually emerging, and data center operators and manufacturers are exploring new models of data center construction. In response to the development trend of fast construction, high power density and simple operation and maintenance of data centers, data centers have introduced the modular construction concept to solve the problems faced in the construction and operation and maintenance of traditional data centers.
Benefiting from the obvious advantages of modular data centers, modular data centers have also gradually become the mainstream trend in domestic data center construction, and major vendors have launched modular data center products and solutions. But the problem is that each vendor claims that their products and solutions are modular, so what kind of data center products and solutions are truly modular?
Before answering this question, let's look at a few typical characteristics of non-modular data centers
One of the values of a modular data center is modular design and fast delivery, but a "modular data center" that is a patchwork of loose parts is just a veneer and does not bring the value of a modular data center. A series of problems such as inconsistent installation interfaces, mismatched monitoring systems and complicated equipment inspection and replacement will lay hidden dangers for the data center.
Modular data center is not only modular installation, but more importantly, the concept of modularity is penetrated into the component products to simplify the operation and maintenance method with modular product design. For example, UPS, output switches, air conditioning fans, filters and other components, to achieve modular design, five minutes to replace. The concept of modularity is really implemented to the bottom of the data center to achieve minimal operation and maintenance. If the components are designed in a non-modular way, it will greatly increase the complexity of operation and maintenance and troubleshooting time, which is also not in line with the modular data center concept.
The data center management system is the soul of the whole data center, and the traditional server room is mostly a patchwork of equipment from various manufacturers, with many devices and mostly "dumb" devices that are difficult to monitor. It is difficult to locate and investigate faults in time, which greatly reduces the reliability of data center operation. A true modular data center should have digital management capability, so that all the pieces can be visible and manageable, leaving no dead spots for monitoring.
From the above typical characteristics of non-modular data centers, we can see that the main feature of a real modular data center is the modular design, that is, during the construction of the data center, part of the installation work of the equipment in the host room area is stripped out and placed in the factory for prefabrication, and then the construction of the data center is completed through simple assembly and commissioning on site. This Lego-like approach is a distinctive feature of modular data centers. Through the prefabrication, pre-integration, pre-testing of individual modules and the rapid replication and deployment of multiple modules, the construction cycle of a data center can be significantly shortened.
