Data Center Server Room Infrastructure: A place containing many servers and important data of the entire enterprise and organization.
To ensure stable operation, the server room needs standards in the design from the beginning and a possible failure warning system for the server room.
The location chosen as a server room
Businesses need to determine:
How many servers and racks are needed?
How many employees work?
Are there other devices?
Calculate the growth of the company that can expand the equipment later
Cost can be spent for server room
Walkway area both in front and behind the racks
Choose a closed room, few holes, few windows, high ceilings, airy doors
Standards for raised floors
The raised floor is anti-static, moisture-proof, fireproof
With a rack system, the raised floor protects the equipment from insects and the heat and moisture of the concrete floor...
The raised floor system also reduces noise and vibration for equipment during operation for neighboring rooms.
Help keep the environment dry and clean for the devices
Helps the air conditioning system keep the server room temperature
Always ensure the aesthetics and professionalism for the DC room
Power supply system for server room
The main power supply is a 3-phase power supply and an electromagnetic relay for control
Auxiliary power supply with battery backup and generator. The backup battery needs to ensure the operation of the system for at least 15 minutes after the main power failure, in order to have enough time to activate the power generation system. Must regularly check the power generation system to see if it is still working to avoid the phenomenon that when it needs to be, it cannot start again.
Standard for cooling system
The cooling system needs to be designed to be able to adjust the temperature and humidity accurately, the standard temperature of the server room is from 19 degrees Celsius to 22 degrees Celsius and the humidity is about 50%.
Large server rooms often use air conditioning systems, cold air will be brought and the front of the racks when passing through the equipment will become hot air, this hot air will be brought back to the server. return to the chiller. And just let the devices work properly. with this solution will minimize the interference of 2 air flows with each other, reducing the cooling of the engine room.
Cable car system
Previously, the wiring system was often designed to run under the floor, but this will affect the cold air flow to coordinate incorrectly to the equipment and upgrade and expand the system with many difficulties.
The link cable system is run on trunking hanging from the ceiling, bringing many benefits such as:
Aesthetic, safe because the cable bundles are bundled on the troughs, looking very professional.
Does not affect the airflow of the cooling system.
Easy to deploy, upgrade and operate
Build a centralized power cable system, improve redundancy, and easily provide additional power for new devices.
Anti-lightning system
Lightning protection is an indispensable component for any server room because the equipment in the room is very sensitive to electrical impulses caused by lightning, these electrical impulses can propagate from the mains or from transmission lines. Signals from outside enter the Data Center and cause damage to the equipment.
Businesses need:
Install lightning protection devices at power and signal sources
Install grounding system for equipment
Fire protection system without water
We must first install sensors on the ceiling and under the raised floor to have the earliest warning of a fire hazard.
As we all know in the server room are expensive equipment, but more valuable than the data in it, so when there is a fire incident we cannot design a water fire fighting system because before When it is on fire, the water has already damaged the IT equipment, so one option is to use clean air to replace it. In which the Novec 1230 fire suppression system is a good option.
Rack cabinet system
A Server room cannot be complete without a Rack system, here are some notes when choosing a rack cabinet
We should choose a cabinet so that when expanding the device, it still ensures maximum cooling
The front and back doors of the cabinet have openings to let cold and hot air flow in and out
The rack is designed to be compatible with all devices that comply with the 19" EIA-310" international standard
It is recommended to choose cabinets of the same size for convenient wiring and networking
Rack cabinets provide recesses for power distribution systems to facilitate easy management of multiple sockets while taking up no rack space.
We should install additional KVM swicth device with built-in LCD screen to maximize the device that can be installed in the cabinet.
Server room temperature warning system
This is a very necessary system in the server room, it helps to promptly detect the causes of the server room temperature rising rapidly such as cooling system problems, open doors, power failures, or other causes of heat loss. rising temperatures.
