0 Distance: Schneider Shevigang about data center energy efficiency Management

January 10, 2011, the second China IDC industry annual ceremony held in Beijing, Schneider Electric IT division Greater China Strategic Marketing Director Shevigang on behalf of the Global Energy efficiency management expert Schneider Electric at the meeting on the Cloud Computing data center planning ideas and ideas for a wonderful speech, And after the meeting to accept the Tenkine server Channel Reporter interview, analytical data center concept, analysis Schneider improve the data center energy efficiency strategy, cloud data center planning and Future data center trends, and so on. Server channel for the user presented this issue of "0 distance", Schneider Electric Shevigang director of the data Center for users to interpret energy efficiency management session.

"Schneider Electric IT division Greater China Strategic Marketing Director Shevigang"

What the data center is--Xie's quotations: "As long as you have organic cabinets, it means you have a data center."

In response to the fact that many companies are still vague about the concept of data centers, Shevigang director believes that as long as you have organic cabinets, it means you have a data center. In the cabinet inside will relate to power supply, refrigeration, physical environment humidity and temperature control, power lines, as long as the enterprise use IT equipment, and the IT equipment to concentrate, the formation of wire wiring or server rooms, are involved in the application of data center. And from the whole business process to see, "an enterprise application may be at the forefront of the business process, the need for personnel to do support, the flow of personnel and business interface between the need for software systems to do the corresponding optimization, all software systems need it hardware to do support." The data center is a platform for providing the appropriate facilities for it hardware and software.

In particular, Xie believes that data centers include front-end power supply, refrigeration, and physical support (including cabinets, distribution, airflow distribution, physical environment monitoring, etc.) and software management.

Explanation: What kind of enterprise needs the data center--General quotations: "Data center must be business-centric"

Some companies do not know what kind of data center they need, Xie said, the data center must be business-centric, starting from the business type of its own, to locate the data center of its own needs. Xie total for our analysis of three types of enterprises, small series made to map for users at a glance.

The Shevigang director believes that if the data center as a tool, then the future of cloud computing provides a possibility, that is, more and more enterprises to host hosting, migration to the cloud computing center to reduce costs, so that the entire data center will become more concentrated and virtualization will continue to spread. Shei stressed that when companies move to cloud computing, whether it's a private cloud, a public cloud, or a hybrid cloud, it's all about the network access side, and the middle connection is important and, of course, secure access, so every business has its own small computer room, which will become increasingly critical.

Explanation: What kind of data center is called health--the general quotations: "Assessing a data center's metrics: capacity, density, budget, growth, planning, and key levels, as well as overall energy efficiency." ”

When it comes to data centers, what data centers are called healthy data centers, and what are the criteria for evaluating a benign data center? Shevigang the director felt the need to assess the capacity, density, budget, growth, planning, key levels and overall energy efficiency indicators.

When it comes to data center standards on energy efficiency, PUE values are often involved. Xie always think that in the energy efficiency assessment, involved in the actual pue value of the denominator, a lot of key parts did not include, such as room space, the entire installation of refrigeration did not take into account, so that Pue was reduced, so many enterprises think of their own pue value is very good. Fact。 Xie always believes that the assessment of a data center indicators, the key one is capacity, capacity by the business needs of the decision, it requirements determine capacity. Then how many it devices, how many servers, how many servers to put in each rack, and how many kilowatts to calculate each rack, and how the data center affects the business of the enterprise at the critical level, and then the overall energy efficiency of the enterprise's growth plan, budget, and a large head.

Explanation: How energy-efficient data centers are implemented--Xie's quotations: "The most important part of improving energy efficiency is measurement"

"Use it to the best of its ability" global energy efficiency management expert Schneider Electric has a unique insight into energy efficiency management, and data center energy efficiency Management as one of Schneider's key fingers, Schneider launches numerous energy efficient data center strategies. Shei examples share the results of Schneider 2011 and 2012 Schneider's innovations in data center energy efficiency management.

September 2011, Schneider launched the industry's first comprehensive management platform for data centers Struxureware. Xie General explained that the platform will involve the management of many building facilities, such as monitoring the entire engine room server temperature, the system will automatically feedback to the outside facilities of the refrigeration terminal, and even throughout the process, through automatic control, automatic motor, reduce water flow speed, increase water cycle times, effectively improve energy efficiency. Xie always thinks that the most central part of improving energy efficiency in data centers is measurement. The data center each part carries on the effective measurement, determines which part consumes more energy, which part consumes less energy, can target know from which part to economize. The Schneider Energy Efficiency Management platform provides a visual interface in which senior and financial personnel are increasingly involved in enterprise IT decisions through a visual interface. The visual interface, can let the enterprise all personnel understand the unit time Enterprise's office, the production workshop, the data center power consumption situation and the expense proportion.

2012 has started, 2012 in improving energy efficiency in the data center, according to the general description of Xie, Schneider will proceed to the following three levels:

First of all, to help the customer site planning and design, provide early consultation. Through the analysis and guidance of Schneider agents and experts, we help users to choose the best products and solutions for themselves. Users can get advice via online free tools (tools.apc.com).

Second, 2012 Schneider will launch the Energy Efficiency Management Assessment service. Customized services according to user needs. The user's goal is to increase the efficiency of their data centers. Schneider experts help users assess where the user's savings can come from, and corresponding improvement proposals are provided.

Third, the introduction of reference Design Guide. Customers want a large area, how much budget data center, users can choose from Schneider's Reference design guide to customize their own needs. Shei points out that the reference Design Guide can provide solutions for small and medium users, large data centers, or very large data center users. In the reference Design Guide, Schneider will not provide more specific products, but provide the appropriate advice to tell what to do.

Explanation: How to solve the security problem of data center--General quotations of Xie: "Security is not only access security, but more facilities security"

2011, anyone involved in the field of server and data center has not forgotten the frequent downtime, downtime means data security, user privacy protection at risk, how to protect the data center security, Xie always gave users some suggestions.

Xie always takes the barrel theory as the guide, he thinks, the shortest one board decides the data center life and death. The shortest board in the user's device, it Foundation, UPS, and Refrigeration Center will determine the probability of the data center. Xie General suggested that users need to balance the priorities of each level, the enterprise in the budget, the choice of what kind of technology and reference design, which require users to balance well; second, users need to adopt a unified supplier interface as far as possible, because the level of different vendors is uneven. Schneider's biggest advantage is that a company provides all aspects of supply, from front-end distribution power supply to building security monitoring, to the entire automation and building management and control, and to the whole data center infrastructure have corresponding solutions. Shei said: "Security is actually to ensure the actual level of the system, to do an effective balance, security also includes solutions, practical implementation and application management capabilities." ”

Explanation: What is the cloud computing data center--Xie's quote: "Cloud computing data Center is a real-time data center, tailored to your needs of the data center"

2011, "Cloud computing" is no less than online popular language. The data center that carries cloud computing also becomes "the heartthrob". What the Cloud data center is. Xie explained: "Cloud computing data Center is a real-time data center, according to your needs customized data center, cloud Computing Data Center is a standardized, modular data center." "In general, cloud computing centers are larger in size and need to be deployed in a very short time," he said. In addition, in the Cloud data center, will involve different leasing side, the enterprise's demand is not same, different cabinets are sold by different users, so the management of cloud data center is very important, must have visual and predictable platform monitoring. Xie always thinks, first of all, cloud computing is big, its capacity is also big, second is density problem: high density and dynamic density, which is to solve how to let infrastructure dynamic response to IT budget resource call process demand problem. Third, the availability of cloud data center and energy efficiency issues users also need to weigh.

As for the cost of the cloud datacenter, Xie recommended that the initial acquisition cost and the late operating cost of 46 are the most ideal.

Outlook: Future data Center development trends

As an energy efficiency expert, Shevigang said that future data center trends will evolve in the following ways:

One is to focus on density: high density and dynamic density

Second, focus on business driving the future

The third is the intelligent

Four is green energy saving

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