Standard Power Architecture for core locations

Standardization of Power Infrastructure at Core Locations

Core Locations • Standard Model for core

Standardization location
• Existing core locations
architecture Compliance
Analysis

with Standards

 Study of International standards for power infrastructure of Data centers

 Criticality identification at core sites

 Model Architecture and standardization of core locations

Objective

 Analysis and comparison of existing core locations’ power infrastructure as per international
standards

 To identify the plan of action and scope for criticality based standardization of sites
 Standard Infrastructure of Core locations

International Standard for Data center ANSI: American National Standards Institute
TIA: Telecommunication Industry Association

2005 •ANSI/ TIA-942: Data Center Standard

Site Space and Layout

Split
4 of
• • Should Backbone
include cabling
5 functional & Horizontal
areas Cabling
• There are tiers of data center as per The Uptime Institute
• Cooling and airflow consideration as per
Under Floor
Attribute/Statistic• Cabling
Flexible “white
Tier TierOverhead
space” for
I requirement
equipment Cabling
IIfuture Tier
racks expansions
III Tier IV
• Raised floor is recommended (flexible cooling )
Site Availability Multi-layer cables
%Trays 99.99 %
Cabling Infrastructure
•
Multi-level Trays99.67%
Minimum 99.74
4 feet width of %
hot and99.98
cold aisle
Annual Downtime • Hot and cold aisle (Racks placement
Bottom layer: in
copper
•
Data cables: Raised
Hot 28.8
aisle floor as rule 22
of thumb
alternate pattern with perforated
but 1.6 floor can0.4
solid
tiles)Fiber
also
(hours) Middle Layer:
TIA- Power cables: Cold aisle
be used for small scale site Top Layer: Power
Power and Cooling 1 Active
942 Color coded
Delivery Paths PDU with 1 Active
Proper
• PRU/Panel internal
ID 1 Active
configuration of racks airflow
1 Passive
Min 12’’ clearance
2
above each layer
& Breaker #
Redundant Components N N+1 N+1 2 (N+1)
Cable trays to minimize blocking of
Environmental Conditions Min 5’’ separation from lights
Raised Floor Heightair flow 12’’ 18’’ 30 -36’’ 30 -36’’
Utility Voltage 208-480 208-480 12-15 kV 12-15 kV
Service During
NO NO YES YES
Operation
Tiered Reliability
Load Load Load
Continuous Cooling Density Density Density Class A*
Dependent Dependent Dependent

* Fans of the cooling equipment are powered from UPS systems

 Specification of Data Center Criticality/Tier Level

Criticality Business
TP Core sites Characteristic
fall in criticality 4 (Tier IV) Effect of System Design
Criticality Business Characteristic
• Typically small businesses Effect of System
• Numerous Design
single points of failure in all aspects of
• Mostly cash-based design
1 • Limited online presence • No generator if UPS has 8 minutes of backup time
(Lowest) • Low dependence on IT • Extremely vulnerable to inclement weather
• Perceive downtime as a tolerable inconvenience conditions
• Generally unable to sustain more than a 10 minute
power outage
• Some amount of online revenue generation
• Some redundancy in power and cooling systems
• Multiple servers
Generator backup
2 • Phone system vital to business Dependent on email
• Able to sustain 24 hour power outage
• Some tolerance to scheduled downtime
• Minimal thought to site selection
• Formal data room separate from other areas

• World-wide presence • Two utility paths (active and passive)

• Majority of revenue from online business • Redundant power and cooling systems
• VoIP phone system High dependence on IT • Redundant service providers
3
• High cost of downtime • Able to sustain 72-hour power outage
• Highly recognized brand • Careful site selection planning
• One-hour fire rating
• Allows for concurrent maintenance

• Two independent utility paths

• Multi-million dollar business
• 2N power and cooling systems
• Multi-million
Majority dollar business
of revenues from electronic transactions
4 • Able to sustain 96 hour power outage
4 • Majority of
Business revenues
model from
entirely electronicon
dependent transactions
IT
(Highest) • Stringent site selection criteria
(Highest) • Business model
Extremely entirely
high cost dependent on IT
of downtime
• Minimum two-hour fire rating
• Extremely high cost of downtime
• High level of physical security
• 24/7 onsite maintenance staff
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