Small volume of work with container data center commercial Rapid

With the advantages of rapid deployment, energy efficiency, modular architecture, and mobility, the container data center began its rapid commercial deployment phase in 2011.

For the container data center, the past 2011, can be said to be its landing in China, the year of application. This year, not only many manufacturers have launched their corresponding products, and operators began to consider the size of the deployment of container data centers. However, the research institute pointed out that the container data center is mainly used for some special business and data center location requirements, but want to popularize, it will take a long time, the next 3 years, the overall market share of the data center would be below 5%.

Operators start Scale deployment

In 2011, many operators said they would adopt container mode in their new data centers.

Shanghai, November 22 this year opened a "cloud data center", according to its development planning, from 2011 to 2012, the center will focus on the development of "container data cabinets" based on IDC industry and related services. Hubei Unicom Product Innovation Department Xin said in September this year, Hubei Unicom is considering the use of container room to host the data center. Xin said that the container data center has many advantages such as flexible location, rapid deployment, flexible scalability and green energy-saving, in addition, the container data center has obvious advantages in terms of opportunity cost and return on investment.

Manufacturers, ZTE, Huawei, wave, Century interconnection and other enterprises have launched its container data center products, ZTE's "cloud box", the wave of the "Sea of clouds" has aroused widespread concern in the industry.

Fast deployment, energy efficient, removable

The industry is concerned about the container data center, mainly because of its deployment speed, cost savings, energy efficiency, mobility and so on a bit.

Compared to the traditional data center, the biggest advantage of container is that it can not be limited by the environment of portability, in layman's terms, container data center "can go up the mountain, but also to the sea."

For example, rapid mobile computing and storage capabilities are often required in the military field, and container data centres do not have the limitations of traditional data center construction. And for oil and gas exploration companies, in the past, data collected through seismic waves needed to be processed at the rear of the data center, but now many exploration companies are beginning to want to be able to do a rough-grained initial processing of data in the field, and through container data centers, they can move computing and storage capabilities forward to the wilderness where exploration is underway.

At the same time, due to the use of modular design, factory-intensive customized production, container data center can be quickly deployed. Compared to the traditional data center 1-2-year deployment time requirement, the container data center can be deployed in 3-4 months.

In addition, by adopting relatively intensive deployment principles, and refrigeration equipment and IT equipment in the same container, reducing the air supply distance, plus the use of natural cooling time, so the container data center naturally has a unique advantage in cost savings. The traditional data center's energy Efficiency ratio (PUE) is approximately between 2-2.5, while the container data center PUE generally can reach below 1.5.

Market Rapid Growth Limited

As a result of these advantages, container data centers have grown rapidly in global share since 2008, according to Ictresearch's research data. 2008, the market size of 160 million U.S. dollars, 2009 to 310 million U.S. dollars, 2010 rapid growth to 920 million U.S. dollars, an average annual growth rate of more than 100%. According to the manufacturer category, the container data center manufacturers can be divided into four categories.

The first type is self-sufficient manufacturer, on behalf of the manufacturer is Google. To meet the needs of applications, Google is accustomed to designing and developing servers, storage systems, and so on. Since 2005, Google has used a container-style design in its data center, which can hold 1160 servers per container. Google's container data center has many special features, such as the fact that it does not have a UPS system like a typical container data center, but rather a 12V battery for the server. Google's container data centers are primarily for personal use and do not have versatility.

The second type of manufacturer is the IT and network equipment product supplier that provides the General Container data Center solution. Many of these vendors, including IBM, HP, SGI, Oracle, in China for Huawei, ZTE and other communications. Although different vendors provide a variety of product specifications, but basically provide a standard 40-foot container data center. To meet the needs of some special users, manufacturers such as HP are starting to offer a 20-foot container data center program. This kind of manufacturer is the core force of the Container Data center market, which guides the development trend of the related technology of the container data center.

The third type of manufacturer is a data center service provider which is represented by century interconnection and cloud cubic technology. Mobile, plug-and-play container data centers are icing on the cake in providing flexible data center outsourcing services. 2003, Century interconnection obtained the patent of the container data center. 2010, Century interconnected container data center formally put into commercial. Century interconnected container data centers adopt a "wet-rent model" similar to that of the aviation industry (that is, in addition to providing container data center products, while providing overall outsourcing services to the operational teams), thereby reducing the threshold for data center outsourcing services. Thanks to the convenience of container data centers, data center service providers are innovating in service mode.

The fourth category is the provider of the datacenter infrastructure. such as Emerson Network Energy, Schneider Electric and so on.

Ictresearch also pointed out that the current container data center mainly used in military field, government secrecy projects, energy exploration and other specific areas, although in the next three years will develop faster, but the overall data center market share will remain relatively small, not more than 5%.

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2011 Collection Data Center Memorabilia

April 7

Wave in Beijing, Jinan at the same time issued the "Sea of Clouds" container data center SmartCloud.

June 6

HP releases ecopod.

September

ZTE releases "Green Cloud Box" container data center.

June 1

Beijing Cloud base launches "cloud box" container data center.

November 22

Shanghai announces the construction of Cloud data center, a focus on the development of container data center.

HP Eco POD

HP released its new generation of container data center ecopod in June this year, the so-called pod, the Performance Optimization data center (performanceoptimized Datacenter). HP Asia Pacific and Japan Area Enterprise Business Group Industry standard Server products Product Manager Shen Zhongjie introduced, ecopod Energy efficiency (FUE) can be as low as 1. 25.

The biggest challenge for data centers, first, is electricity consumption. Usually a server requires 300 watts of electricity, and now a data center usually has thousands of servers, if the power savings of 10% to 20%, then the operating costs will save a lot. In addition, space savings are increasingly being paid attention by data center operators, and increasing the density of data centers is being put on the agenda.

Pue minimum 1. 05

HP pod in each container can put 10 cabinets, each cabinet can be placed near 100 servers, high-density design makes ecopod 40 square meters of space equivalent to the traditional computer room 240 square meters. According to Hewlett-Packard, the use of water-cooled solution of the Pod Container data center Its Pue low to 1. 25, the use of natural air intake, Ecopod Pue can reach 1. 05.

HP placed a large number of fans in the Ecopod container, with 5 gears, which can adjust wind speeds and take more heat away from the wind. Hot channel and cold channel through the cabinet to do a complete isolation, all the air-conditioning in the front suction hot air, heat exchange on the above, through the exchange of cold air again down, forming a completely closed cycle.

Ecopod uses a lot of unique design, the size of the original HP pod container capacity doubled, the internal server cabinet back-to-back put together to form a hot channel, the middle with a high air volume fan to all hot air duct to the wind cooling system, and then the cold wind from both sides of the cool channel sent down. The system will automatically measure the temperature and humidity outside, the decision is to need natural gas, or need to use air-conditioning, or need to take out the hot air after the use of heating, customers can set the corresponding temperature, humidity.

Combined with cloud computing

HP's performance Optimization Center is a central embodiment of HP's strategy for IaaS infrastructure services, based on which it can further deploy HP's cloud system solutions to the infrastructure and provide a PAAs platform for users, Hewlett-Packard has described.

HP designed a special monitoring software for Ecopod, can see the hot and cold channel temperature, pressure, to know which place temperature difference, which determines the speed of the fan, you can automatically speed. If the whole machine is not very high temperature, it does not need very cold water to come in, you can directly reduce the refrigeration-the cost of the above expenses. For server electricity, HP uses cloud computing energy management, can be accurate to each server power.

12 weeks deployment complete.

At the same time, because of the modular design, HP pod can achieve rapid deployment, and in 12 weeks after the order to provide customers with complete inheritance and the hpecopod of the forecast test. According to the introduction, after the user orders, ecopod in 6 weeks can be delivered, 12 weeks deployment completed, 3 months to start supporting the user's business needs. Traditional data centers require 1.5 to 2 years of time.

HP Eeopod offers a unique modular design and turnkey solution that can be tailored to the user's needs by adding more flexible extensions, realizing turnkey solutions, and building a traditional 1. 2 MW data Center can save up to 24.7 million dollars for customers.

HP Ecopod is currently available to early adopters of customer limits. It is planned to be fully available in North America at the end of 2011 and is likely to land in China this year and tomorrow.

Editorial Reviews: HP Cafe Exclusive air cooling technology, so that it can maximize the use of natural cold source refrigeration, save a lot of refrigeration costs. and its unique Gemini design, not only the formation of a good cooling effect of the hot and cold air duct, but also for the maintenance staff to provide a greater space.

ZTE "Green Cloud Box"

Wang, ZTE's vice president for cloud computing and IT operations, said ZTE's cloud-box data center had four bright spots, green energy-saving, low-carbon environmental protection, resilient casting and rapid deployment.

Its indoor modular data center integration solutions, including cabinets, distribution, refrigeration, fire and monitoring components, load-bearing must be 800 kg per square meter, no elevated floors, 3 meters high layer can support 55U cabinets.

ZTE's outdoor container-type data center is an ISO container that complies with international standards, can be placed in harsh environment, can be stacked 5 containers, with waterproof and sunscreen function. Up to 40 feet of container data centers can be installed with up to 2880 servers or 26Petabytes of storage. Taking a data center with 1400U rack space as an example, ZTE's modular data center is 10 times times less than the traditional data center, and the calculation density of the unit area is greatly increased.

ZTE's modular data center is designed for I-Ding and communication equipment, not only consider the structure and reliability of the computer room, but also take into account the refrigeration efficiency of the engine room, through the use of refrigerant and other efficient refrigeration technology, to achieve each cabinet IT equipment power density of more than 9kw,pue reached 1. 151. 3. For example, a data center with 1400U rack space saves 34 of ZTE's modular datacenter compared to traditional data centers. 85% capex, 44. 88% Opex, 37. 92% TCO. If the electricity according to 1 yuan/degree calculation, a can accommodate 2000 Server Modular data Center can save more than 5 million yuan per year of electricity.

ZTE's half length and full length rack depth are 600mm and 1050mm respectively. The half length container supports 4 units (one side 2 cabinets), the full length container can support 10 units (one side 5 cabinet). Each unit can be configured with a full length rack of 3 or 1 half length frames.

Editorial comments: ZTE's "Green Cloud Box" in the 2011 Beijing International Communications Exhibition to the limelight, received widespread attention. As the equipment business giant, ZTE's deep understanding of the operators, so that it can best meet the operators of the container data center needs.

Dell Container Data Center

Dell has the broadest range of product coverage, including traditional servers, blade servers, and customized servers, as well as a revolutionary data center server, with all products covered, Dell provides customers with software and service solutions to help users build data centers.

The Modular data center is the result of three generations of data center experience from the Dell Data Solutions Center. Modular data centers allow customers to customize the addition of specific modules anytime, anywhere, as demand grows. The first generation of container-type data centers can be deployed globally, but all parts must be packed into containers.

The concept of a Dell Modular datacenter is to install and test in a factory the latest high-performance, high-capacity, and energy efficient servers, networks, and other hardware with a data center capacity as a building block. To optimize efficiency and rapid deployment of operations to meet today's large-scale Web2. 0 and public cloud customer needs. Engineers at the Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) team innovate to push performance, efficiency, and flexibility to new limits.

Dell's Modular Datacenter Advantage: With innovation, Dell can meet user needs through a modular data center, especially if you want to use a revolutionary approach to building your data center's customer needs. Customers from the traditional computer room to the use of modular data centers, customers can bring many significant advantages. Regarding the power use efficiency the number, in the traditional computer room case, is generally 1. 5 to 2. 0 Pue. After the customer deploys the modular data center, the data measured at the customer site Pue reach 1. 03, there was significant improvement.

The Australian TIER5 Data Center is deployed with Dell's DOS (Data Center Solution Datacenter Solution) to save $8 million a year from the power consumption perspective, as well as cost savings for customers through rapid deployment.

Editorial Reviews: Dell's modular data center combines three generations of data center experience, not only to provide users with a very low pus, but also the broadest range of product coverage, you can provide users, including software and services solutions package solutions.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)