Green Data Center has become the inevitable choice of enterprises

With the growth of national economic strength, the improvement of science and technology level, in order to adapt to the change of global resource and environment pressure, green it will become a trend of enterprise informatization, and the construction of efficient, safe and low energy consuming green data center becomes the inevitable choice of enterprises.

What data centers are green data centers? How can the enterprise's data center be built into a green data center? This is already in the enterprise information workers in urgent need to solve the problem.

1. Traditional architecture of data center

There is no authoritative definition of data centers so far, traditional data centers typically refer to storage-centric data service centers that integrate host systems, storage systems, and software systems to provide a unified application, security, and management service through network and application architectures.

The establishment of the data center can integrate the enterprise's IT resources, break the barrier of the Department, effectively improve the utilization rate of information resources, eliminate the island of information, improve the management level of enterprise marketing, production and office, and thus increase the survival ability of enterprises in the brutal market competition. The traditional data center is the integration of enterprise business system and data resource, sharing and analysis of the core computing environment, the traditional data center has high energy consumption, construction costs, resources can not be shared and low utilization of equipment, in order to eliminate these shortcomings of traditional data centers, in the virtualization and cloud computing, such as the latest information technology, driven by The Green data Center has become a new standard for data center construction.

2. Discussion on the standard of Green data center

There is currently no unified definition of a Green data center, the international understanding is that green data centers are intelligent data-processing centers that meet the standards of enterprise data security and self-management and self-healing capabilities based on the traditional architecture of the teaching center, through the full utilization of the latest information technologies, such as virtualization and cloud computing. From this understanding, the Green data center should meet the standards of virtualization, high utilization, green energy-saving, intelligent security and so on, which meet these standards can be called Green data center.

(1) Virtualization

As the main means to improve the utilization of equipment resources. Virtualization has become a natural standard for green data centers, and without virtualization there will be no new generation of data centers. Through virtualization technology, we can devote less hardware resources and energy consumption, and get more data processing ability. The use of virtualization products, can break the resource barriers, improve the utilization of information resources, flexible and dynamic to meet the changing needs of the business.

(2) High utilization rate

High utilization rate is one of the main characteristics of green data center, and it is also the inevitable demand of business development. Unlike traditional data centers, green data centers can more flexibly invoke hardware devices according to business requirements by using virtualization, unified resource management and resource intelligence provisioning, and meet the needs of enterprise business information resource usage.

(3) Green energy Saving

Green energy-saving is the main symbol of green data center and the only measure of whether the data center is "green". By adopting green Environmental protection materials, low-power equipment, intelligent power management technology and virtualization technology, the energy consumption of data center can be reduced, and the green standard of energy saving, environmental protection and low emission is achieved, which saves the cost of information operation and improves the level of information performance.

(4) Intelligent security

The development of automation technology makes intelligent management and automatic fault repair possible, and makes intelligent security one of the standard of Green data center. The Green data center should have visual, controllable and manageable characteristics, can realize fast recovery of data center fault or data dynamic migration, meanwhile, the application of automation technology reduces manual intervention, avoids human error operation, and further improves system reliability.

3, the Green Data center technology introduction

As the Operation Center of Enterprise Information system, data storage center and sensitive processing center, in the increasingly serious enterprise dependence, the traditional data center inflexible structure, difficult to manage and costly problems has become the bottleneck of data center development, the data center of the green Transformation of the enterprise information development must be the road. The construction of Green data center must involve the upgrading of the structure, equipment and management means of the data center. Virtualization, cloud computing, high-density technology, energy-saving technology and intelligent management technology are the key technologies to realize the green transformation of data center.

(1) Virtualization

Virtualization is not only the standard but also the main technology for the construction of Enterprise Green data Center (to solve the structure and construction of traditional data center, maintenance cost is mainly rely on virtualization technology. The primary role of virtualization technology is to increase the utilization of IT resources. Enterprise IT equipment procurement is generally in accordance with the expected maximum load of procurement, after the procurement of resources in general not more than 25%, through virtualization, the majority of the use of idle resources, not only save the cost of equipment input, but also improve the system flexibility, data center energy consumption is also a means of saving.

(2) Cloud computing

Cloud computing is actually a service means to achieve resource sharing. By this means can integrate various resources of the enterprise together. Through the network to provide on-demand services, so that enterprise data processing can be improved. So as to better provide information services for enterprises. For the Green Data Center, resource integration is a necessary way for the "green" transformation of the center of worship. Cloud computing technology is one of the key technologies of enterprise information resource integration.

(3) High density technology

The increasing complexity of data center devices has made management increasingly difficult, with data center solution providers proposing high-density technologies to address the data center's IT system clutter, the plethora of device brands, increased space demand, high business growth, and growing energy costs. High-density technology is a new modular technology design method, the data center components of the modular, integrated, through the equipment to increase the density and provide a unified management platform to solve the problem of data center. High-density technology is also a means to achieve resource integration and provide resource sharing, in line with the construction requirements of green data center.

(4) Energy-saving technology

Energy-saving is the design goal of Green data center, it is necessary to build green data center by reducing energy consumption level of data center. The main energy-saving technologies currently available in the data center are: building thermal insulation technology, hot and cold channel layout technology, equipment energy-saving technology and intelligent power management technology.

(5) Intelligent Management Technology

Intelligent management technology is a technology used to solve the increasingly complex problem of data center management. Highly automated data centers must have the ability to manage, self-healing, and allocate resources automatically. As one of the key technologies to realize the "green" transformation of data center, the Intelligent management technology covers the whole process of data center from power management, equipment management, software and hardware resource management to data processing result management, and is the key technology to reduce energy consumption in the datacenter.

As an important part of the society, the enterprise is shouldering the important social citizen responsibility, the green Transformation of enterprise Data Center is the problem that enterprise informatization must pay attention to. At the same time, as an economic organization with profit as its main purpose, the return on investment is the only standard for the feasibility of the enterprise Audit project. Building Green Data Center as a means for enterprises to fulfill social civic responsibility also meet the investment standards of enterprises, investment in green data center in reducing the cost of energy consumption in the Enterprise data center at the same time, for the enterprise to bring more rapid and convenient data processing services, so that enterprises in the brutal market competition to win the opportunity to make enterprises stronger and bigger. and to promote the enterprise towards more.