Consider energy planning
Think of this as a high school math problem: if a data center x has a y amount of energy, how many devices can the data center run if each device requires a z amount of power? However, for data center managers, this problem is faced every day, especially if more advanced management requires more storage space, more bandwidth, and faster processing speed. The final answer is often to purchase additional equipment, or energy-saving equipment such as blade servers.
But power resources are not unlimited. More importantly, if the power supply is interrupted due to an emergency such as a storm or power outage, each data center must have a backup plan. Some data centers are equipped with generators to prevent data loss, but if a data center depends on a large amount of energy input, there may not be enough generators to meet the power requirements of the data center. Check your equipment installation below, and consider using offline data storage and placing mission-critical equipment in areas where generators can quickly provide power.
Gradually adapt to HVAC system
Like energy issues, cooling is another important issue for data center environmental maintenance, and it is also the key to ensuring energy conservation and normal operation of data centers. Giovanni Coglitore, chief technology officer of RackableSystems, believes that because of the increasing demand for cooling in data centers, a wave of technological innovation is coming.
At the same time, through the understanding of gradually adapting to the HVAC system, we often communicate with the technicians who maintain the data center system, and understand that there are plans to improve energy efficiency in the summer. These are the experiences we need to learn.
Choose the right monitoring system
Because of the fierce competition of many manufacturers in the control of the data center environment, many monitoring tool products are launched in the market, and some of them are often provided to users as additional functions in other products. Choose monitoring tools that can send alerts to different people in various forms. This tool can send alerts to e-mail or mobile phones, and check the created log reports to ensure that no problems are missed.
Pay attention to cooperation and communication
Ensure that tasks such as monitoring and cooling are managed. Most IT technicians in small and medium-sized enterprises are busy developing such pre-strategies and checklists. Experts believe that this is very important to ensure the normal operation of the environment.
Jim Reinert, Senior Director of OntrackDataRecover data recovery services, data center expansion may depend on more automated processes, and it is also very important to understand, for example, how to respond if the energy supply is interrupted.
If every technician takes some responsibility, the data center manager can make these tasks more meaningful. For example, one employee is responsible for HVAC issues, and the other is responsible for recycling.
Prepare for data center expansion
If only for the data center, it is not too early to improve efficiency through energy, cooling, monitoring and better management strategies, because this not only reduces the chance of downtime, but also prepares for data center expansion.
Ken Brill, executive director of Uptime Institute, believes that data center expansion is inevitable. Recent research shows that almost every data center manager interviewed expressed hope to expand processing capacity and equipment scale in the next 30 months. And this expansion requires more budget expenditure.
He said: "In the past, equipment costs accounted for 1% or 2% of operating costs, but now it accounts for 5%, and it is not impossible to continue to grow in the next few years, maybe it will grow up to 30%."
In other words, in the case of soaring environmental costs, make the worst plan for budget overruns. Brill said: "Everyone should make a long-term plan and take a different approach in terms of strategy."
When a new technology is integrated into an environment, generally people will shut down the old equipment that has been eliminated and send it to the recycle bin, or find companies that specifically eliminate enterprise data equipment. But this practice is not standardized, these old devices are only cut off from the network, and some are not even turned off.
Brill said: "The number of unused devices in the data center is increasing, which is normal. But people do not understand how this will affect the environment." For example, if this device is still cooling, it will also Waste valuable cooling resources, not to mention energy. If a monitoring tool is also installed on this device, then the monitoring tool is also a waste. Even an old printer device that is no longer in use is harmful to the entire environment.
Brill recommends developing a targeted strategy for the recycling of used equipment, which includes physically removing this equipment cluster data center and allowing a dedicated routine inspection at least once a month.
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