Nightmare of traditional form server--wave smart Rack V4.0 Analysis

Not long ago, Open Data Center Committee in Beijing announced the establishment and release of the Scorpio Machine Cabinet Server Technical Specifications 2.0 version, the Committee's predecessor is the Scorpio Alliance, Members have bat (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) China Telecom, China Mobile, the development and revision of the machine cabinet server technical standards is the core content of the organization. At present, the BAT procurement server accounted for 30% of the overall market, of which the customization of the whole cabinet server accounted for about 20%, this proportion will be further improved.

Machine Cabinet Server is out of the Internet operators, to the government, telecommunications and other traditional industries infiltration, with the rapid increase of IT equipment, equipment footprint, power consumption and operation of the difficulty is also increasing, the government, banks and large enterprises are beginning to seek to deploy more density, lower energy consumption, installation, use, It solutions that are easier to maintain, the machine cabinet Server provides the ideal solution for these users, the machine cabinet server has produced the strong substitution effect to the traditional rack-type server, moreover because the machine cabinet server relative to the blade to the environment request low, the deployment is convenient, the cost is low, to the blade also has certain substitution function.

Smart Rack, the most shipped machine cabinet server

Wave Smart Rack is currently the most mature and leading machine cabinet server. Wave is the earliest domestic enterprises involved in the field of machine cabinets server, the domestic Scorpio Project group was established in 2012, and the wave in 2010 has been developed to complete the first generation of the server, from 2010 to 2014, has developed to the fourth generation of products, and the Scorpio standard only updated once.

Wave of the latest smart Rack V4.0 in line with Scorpio 2.0 standard, in early 2014 in Baidu, Alibaba to achieve bulk supply, the overall market share of over 60%, market share is the smart Rack V4.0 quality and quality of the best description.

Wave Smart rack to standard cabinets for the design unit, unified on its server node for power supply, cooling and management, it supports a variety of forms of computing and storage nodes, for the storage and processing of massive data, especially for cloud computing, large data processing applications.

Functional centralization, Overall modularity

The traditional rack-type server can be divided into several modules of calculation, storage, power supply and heat dissipation, in which the calculation and storage belong to the function module, and the power supply and heat dissipation belong to the support module. Power supplies and fans for power and cooling are high in the fault, so the upper-end servers are configured with redundant power supplies and fans, and are supported for hot-swappable.

Smart rack strips power and fans from traditional servers by the centralized power supply and cooling of the whole cabinet, and the n+n redundancy of the power supply and the 2+1 redundancy of the fans, while ensuring high availability, the number of power supply and fans is reduced by 6 times times, the corresponding single point failure rate is also effectively reduced.

In general, in order to ensure reliability, the actual operating power of the server is only half the power output power, which will lead to a serious increase in costs. The top data center in China can provide 12KW power for a cabinet, the power of a 1U dual server is about 500W, that is to say, a 42U cabinet can only deploy 24 1U dual servers, this huge space waste to customers is the substantial increase in rental costs.

Smart Rack Centralized power supply design, combined with power load dynamic adjustment technology, the entire cabinet of electricity can be allocated to each server node, in the guarantee of security and reliability, the space utilization rate is also greatly improved, 12KW cabinets can deploy up to 48 dual server nodes, Deployment density increased to twice times the traditional rack server.

Heat dissipation from the cabinet back fan wall central heat dissipation, the use of large-size fans, the same bulk heat consumption of power than small fan reduction of more than 10%. And a single fan and fan window all support hot-swappable, so that the number of fans on demand flexible adjustable.

This kind of function, and the support module completely separates the design to fully guarantee the system high reliable operation, but also may help the user to reduce the purchase and the use cost greatly.

Flexible and intelligent, centralized management

Flexible configuration and centralized management are also the most important features of Smratrack. Can flexibly support the half width compute node, the full width storage node and so on each kind of server node, compatible with the standard rack type network switch, the network, the computation, the storage function integrates in one infrastructure, satisfies the different user's configuration demand.

1U space supports up to 4 intel® E5-2600V2 series cpu,1u fully-wide storage nodes support up to 18 3.5-inch 4T hard drives and are superior in configuration to traditional rack-top servers.

Unique node maintenance design, the rear of the cabinet without any cable, all operation and maintenance work can be in the cold channel; the module-free hot plug design, including the fan, the node plate, including the vulnerable parts all support hot plug, optimized cable line design, specially customized cabinet with the inner side of the slot, making the system operation and maintenance of difficulty greatly reduced.

By virtue of the two production line north and south, the realization of the agile supply, has reached a business day deployment of more than 3000 server nodes, delivery speed is the traditional server several times, which also makes the user's business online time at least 40%. In addition, the Smart rack can realize the management center to the whole Cabinet function module and the support module overall management. According to the state information, dynamic adjustment of operating parameters to ensure more stable operation of the business, to achieve energy saving. Can combine wave software, realize the application of automatic bulk deployment.

The era of cloud computing requires smart Rack

The rapid rise of the machine cabinet server is not accidental, the server is to support the basic infrastructure of information equipment, each technology era will have a corresponding shape. Mainframe, minicomputer-supported LAN era only tower server, the advent of the internet has made rack-type server replaced the tower server, while the cloud computing era requires a more low-cost, intensive computing equipment. The highly modular machine cabinet server should be the future mainstream user's choice, and the machine cabinet server already with next generation data center unifies, becomes the data center evolution essential equipment.

Wave Smart rack than the industry similar products early, technology turnover, products more mature, access to most of the market share, but the machine cabinet server market still has a huge open space to grasp the needs of industry customers, the integration of its products, wave or can further expand the market advantage.