Emergency Preparedness solutions for earthquake preparedness data centers

The arrival of the disaster is always a surprise, the Japanese earthquake is a severe test of the whole Earth, its chain reaction is not yet predictable, but the frequent occurrence of earthquakes so that people began to enhance the awareness of prevention, reflect on how to take more effective measures to reduce the disaster it brings.

For data center disaster preparedness, there are reports that most of Japan's data service centers are still working within a week of the quake, and that for a country with such an earthquake, there is no doubt that local data center deployments will raise the level of disaster preparedness to cope with the problems posed by the earthquake risk.

For the domestic CIO, it is necessary to start thinking about whether the data center has enough resilience. We all know that the data center equipment prices expensive, once the unpredictable disaster, the enterprise will be a big loss. Earthquakes and other disasters may bring such as power outages, room, cabinet collapse, cable damage, data loss and many other problems, including equipment damage and other tangible losses can be made up, and valuable data loss caused by the loss is not calculated.

Japan's great earthquake will also give the CIO of domestic enterprises sounded the alarm, to deal with disasters such as earthquakes to enhance awareness of disaster preparedness, to do a good job of backup construction, through an effective disaster recovery mechanism to ensure business continuity, reduce the disaster brought to the enterprise losses.

Disaster backup, disaster recovery involves many aspects, not only involves a lot of technical details, but also involves data center management, disaster recovery scenarios, business continuity planning, business continuity management.

I. Data backup

A complete disaster backup system consists mainly of data backup system, backup data processing system, backup communication network system and perfect disaster recovery plan.

In the disaster backup system construction, the data backup is the key, is also the foundation, how the system, the application and the business and so on the complete and the timely replication to the disaster backup center, is the disaster backup system construction first must consider the key point.

Disaster tolerance can be divided into several levels according to its ability, for example, the disaster tolerance system defined by the international standard SHARE78 has seven levels: from the simplest local tape backup only, to the storage of backup tapes offsite, to the establishment of real-time application system switching off-site backup system, recovery time can be from a few days to the hour level to the minute , second, or 0 data loss. Of course, no matter what kind of disaster recovery scheme, data backup is the most basic.

However, only data backup is not enough for enterprise disaster preparedness management. With the increasingly complex operation Environment of Enterprise data center and the massive increase of data volume, it is not enough to consider disaster backup system from data and information system, which can help enterprises to face various risks in complex environment, and enterprises must turn their focus from it to business and establish continuous disaster preparedness management for business. That is, to the business, to fully consider the amount of data can be allowed to lose, how long must restore the operation of the business.

In the construction of disaster backup system, the advantage of virtualization technology is obvious. Virtualization provides a lot of support for disaster recovery system installation, testing, switching, recovery, and virtualization makes business continuity easier, more flexible, simpler, and cheaper. For government, enterprise users, the application of virtualization technology in disaster recovery process can shorten disaster recovery time and maintain business continuity, so virtualization technology has become an important tool of information management.

However, virtualization platforms and virtualization technologies do not completely replace the entire disaster recovery management process and system. As a result, the enterprise CIO must combine disaster recovery experience, disaster recovery system, and virtualization technology to achieve rapid, complete, comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity management and improve disaster recovery capabilities.

Two. Damping Products

According to media reports, many companies in Japan's data centers have installed damping products, in the past decade, to help these devices through more than 10 large earthquakes, shock absorber products can be used to strengthen the mainframe cabinets and frame to ensure that the host in the face of the most likely to occur when the strongest earthquake, only a slight vibration.

Lifting and Shockproof platform

The data center is built with a lifting and shockproof platform to ensure that the air conditioner is in good condition and maintains normal room temperature. In addition, the Take-off and landing platform can reduce static interference, provide a professional, high-quality environment Storage server.

Seismic scooter

Many data centers use seismic isolation techniques to protect racks and servers in the event of a large earthquake. The scooter is mounted at the bottom of the data center rack and can be moved, rather than fastened to the building, in the event of an earthquake, reducing loss.

Inland PLATE Shockproof Bracket

The machine room floor shockproof support, the height is adjustable, and can fix any position, the base may fix with the ground, increases the frame stability.

Explosion-proof wall and safety buffer

Data center of the central Room of the outer wall for explosion-proof wall, the periphery of the park to set a security buffer, the central room height of the seismic fortification intensity can reduce the earthquake to the data center disaster.

Shockproof Cabinet

Shockproof cabinet with a dual-frame shockproof structure, column and separation between the stalls, the installation of the "shock absorber" through the deformation absorption of seismic energy, thereby reducing the vibration of the cabinet. Shock Absorber is 2-segment variable type high-performance damping rubber, in small and medium earthquakes for soft, large earthquakes will harden.

Three. Disaster preparedness Exercise

Security incident prevention and walkthrough apply equally to IT systems. Experts pointed out that the periodic disaster-tolerant drill can verify the disaster-tolerant structure, the effectiveness of the recovery plan and the actual implementation capacity. In order to improve the disaster-tolerant system, it can also make all departments concerned familiar with and understand the relevant strategies, processes and methods to enhance the comprehensive execution ability of the enterprise emergency response and catastrophe recovery.

Regular disaster preparedness drills can help enterprises to improve their disaster preparedness capability and are an essential measure to deal with disasters actively.