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Views: 82 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2022-08-02 Origin: Site
Specifically, a true modular data center has the following four main characteristics at the same time.
First, the architecture is modular: the micro-module integrates a full set of systems including power supply and distribution, cooling, and integrated cabling, ensuring that the system can be expanded as needed, synchronizing the infrastructure with IT requirements and reducing one-time investments. The modular infrastructure can be deployed according to current IT requirements and later expanded online according to business needs.
Second is component modularity: modular architecture solves the problem of data center construction, but the core of a data center lies in use and maintenance, and a true modular data center should consider from the use perspective and achieve component modularity. For example, UPS modularization, power distribution and cooling components can be hot-swapped to achieve five-minute maintenance and solve the operation and maintenance problems to the maximum extent.
Modular data center should be flexible to match the different needs of different industry customers for data center construction, and meet the needs of customers for data centers in different scenarios and conditions according to different scales and granularity sizes. It can flexibly support a variety of combination configuration methods such as using inter-column air conditioning + modular UPS + battery in/out of column, room-level air conditioning + closed channel + UPS, battery out of column centralized power supply. When installing, upgrading, reconfiguring or moving modularity, the independent components and standard interfaces greatly simplify the workload and save time and money.
In addition, according to customer needs, N, N+1, 2N and other configuration options can be provided in the supply and distribution equipment and cooling solutions to meet the needs of different reliability levels.
If the modular data center is only a field patchwork of equipment from multiple manufacturers, the hardware of multiple manufacturers will be put together through hardware and software interface customization. Such a piecemeal combination solution solves the cold and hot channel isolation, which improves the efficiency of cooling and reduces PUE to a certain extent, but brings a series of problems such as different interfaces of equipment from multiple manufacturers, large customization workload, poor delivery quality and slow delivery.
A true modular data center should be a unified design, with all components factory prefabricated and productized standard parts with unified hardware and software interfaces. No custom development of software and hardware is required, which can meet high quality and rapid deployment and simplify delivery and docking interface at customer level.
But a modular data center is far from as simple as one might think. It is never just a simple hardware patchwork and overlay of common modular UPS, row-level air conditioners, cabinets and channel components. Why? This brings us to the intelligent modular data center we are going to mention.
To be called an intelligent modular data center, it is not only the modularization of hardware, but also needs an intelligent management system for unified deployment management to inject intelligent "soul" into the data center: the management system, as the "brain" of the data center room, should be based on the modularization of hardware, which can realize the intelligence of management, simplify operation and maintenance, and improve operation and maintenance efficiency.
In terms of energy consumption, a truly intelligent modular data center should be able to deploy power supply and distribution, cooling resources, control energy consumption, and improve the utilization rate of equipment through centralized management of the management system, thereby reducing resource consumption.
From the above elaboration, we can see that a truly intelligent modular data center has the advantages of rapid deployment, ultimate reliability, on-demand deployment, elastic expansion, and high energy efficiency. And in the future, as AI technology and IoT technology mature and modularity and intelligence further integrate, intelligent micro-modular data centers will become the mainstream trend in the data center industry.
