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Facilities to Meet the IT Need. 40 years in construction business this September HVAC – Building Services – Facilities Technology Director of Tuckers Consultancy Ltd - London Consulting Engineers BICSi Registered Communications Distribution Designer DC Professional Data Centre Specialist
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40 years in construction business this September HVAC – Building Services – Facilities Technology Director of Tuckers Consultancy Ltd - London Consulting Engineers BICSi Registered Communications Distribution Designer DC Professional Data Centre Specialist Accredited Trainer for DC Professional: Data Centre Design Awareness Energy Efficiency Best Practice Data Centre Advanced Cooling Data Centre Advanced Powe Created TCL Data (www.tcldata.net) to offer IT Infrastructure Consultancy world-wide Barry Shambrook RCDD, DCS
Quality Capacity Resilience Efficiency Cost Capex Opex Time When is (was?) it needed What is the business need?
Cloud efficiency Is Cloud an option? Source: Cloud Computing and Sustainability, The Environmental Benefits of Moving to the Cloud Accenture and WSP
Make the best of existing - Virtualise, increase utilisation Dell PowerEdge R815 power against load Source: SpecPower_ssj2008
Servers Storage Network Today > future How much space? Consider space efficient options
Allow for support areas Goods Entrance Main Entrance
Synchronous or Asynchronous? Back-up required?
BICSi 002 assessment How much resilience is needed?
Class 1 power and cooling Power Cooling Mains Generator Change Over UPS (N) Heat Rejection (N) Room Units Equipment
Class 2 power and cooling Power Cooling Mains Generator (N+1) Change Over UPS (N+1) Heat Rejection (N+1) Equipment Room Units (N+1)
Class 3 power and cooling Power Cooling Mains Generator Mains Generator Change Over Change Over UPS (N+N) UPS Heat Rejection Heat Rejection (N+N) Room Units Equipment Room Units (N+N)
Class 4 power and cooling Power Cooling Mains Generator Mains Generator Change Over Change Over UPS (N+1) (N+N) UPS (N+1) Heat Rejection (N+1) Heat Rejection (N+1) (N+N) Room Units (N+1) Equipment Room Units (N+1) (N+N)
But resilience has a cost Calculated annual costs and emissions for typical 600kW high efficiency data centre
IT utilisation and efficiency Resilience Power conversions Heat rejection (cooling) Fundamentals of data centre efficiency
SSD efficiency Source: “Environmental Leadership in Storage Solutions” STEC Inc
Temperature ONTO equipment >25˚C No humidity control Fan speed control Preferably air side economisation with adiabatic (outside air up to 35˚C, water supply, lots of space for louvres) If not water side economisation Heat rejection is second main user of energy
NEBS Environment Air temperature: Blade server on: 5°C to 40°C (41°F to 104°F). Altitude: -60 m to 1800 m (-197 ftto 6000 ft) Blade server on: 5°C to 30°C (41°F to 86°F). Altitude: 1800 m to 4000 m (6000 ft to 13000 ft) Humidity: 8% to 85% IBM blade server specification