Comprehensive monitoring of power supply and cooling equipment to easily reduce operating costs
No matter what type of data center, it is necessary to monitor the operation of its power supply and cooling equipment in order to respond to problems in a timely manner. But the staff of the data center often do not know the operational efficiency of these combined data. This function is to protect the server and stored information in the data center. It can successfully use more and more business data centers, depending on the data it generates, and how to use these data to control and respond to specific events. Only when the managers and operators of cooling or power index data can completely avoid downtime, can the equipment be in the best state and adjusted automatically to improve efficiency.
According to industry experts, data in the power and cooling areas will be more valuable in the areas where data centers are efficient. An expert team was surprised to find that many data centers have four to five different monitoring or automation systems operating while each key system is independent (generator, HVAC, power distribution, server monitoring, temperature monitoring, etc.). Due to the uncoordinated settings, data center operators often ignore the relationship between power and cooling information of these systems, so they cannot understand that the integrated systems, tools and various equipment between them are operated by each other.
Suppliers do not use a single system solution to track data, usually because they want to maintain system reliability and the operation of a key system familiar to staff, which can achieve comprehensive improvement. The specific reasons are usually:
The owners of the data center do not know that they need to monitor, and do not know how to carry out higher level information fusion and data realization to effectively improve efficiency and analysis.
The owner of the data center facility is worried that the monitoring equipment will be shut down for installation at risk, or that a large number of maintenance windows will lead to downtime or unplanned downtime of key equipment, which is caused by the installation of the project.
Because the level of data mining and analysis exceeds the industry best practices, the data centers of stakeholders need to receive relevant operational training, that is, how the control system improves equipment efficiency and reduces operating costs.
case analysis
Take the data center hosting service provider as an example. The company provides retail multi tenant hosting service, which aims to provide safe and reliable room space for tenants and save operation by reducing power consumption and cooling costs. The goal of the project is to reduce energy costs, improve the utilization rate of air conditioners, and increase the ability to restore power systems. To achieve these goals, the company decided to supervise the power and data in a single cooling system.
During the initial project evaluation, the server inlet temperature in some places was lower than the actual demand, but the temperature in other places was much higher than the ideal temperature. The square meter data center has two configurations, ordinary floor and elevated floor. This cooling strategy will consume too much electricity to distribute cooling air effectively.
According to industry experts, first, the company deployed all cooling and power equipment on the monitoring equipment. The panel then installed low-cost airflow devices, including diaphragms, seals, racks, and doors for separating cold and cold air. When the precision air conditioning valve can prevent air flow, the control device is closed, thus reducing the water flow of the drainage system, reducing the use of pumps, cooling towers and other equipment, and further improving the energy-saving effect.
In addition, sensors are installed to ensure that there is enough cold air for tenants, which is a cheap measure to ensure the effective use of cold air. Air flow management is ignored by multiple data center facilities.
Once installed, the company will be able to use the new monitoring system, according to the load of the server, you can decide to turn on and off the precision air conditioning unit to make the best temperature of the whole area. In addition, even if the precision air conditioning unit is turned off, the actual temperature of many facilities in the data center is lower than before, because the overall cooling efficiency has increased. The smaller strain of the cooling equipment and the lower cooling cost of the rear chamber are the desired results. Finally, the data center is reduced from to through the deployed power supply, cooling system, monitoring and other facilities.
Many treasures still need to be excavated
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