Measures to improve data center safety
Given all the disaster cases and failure factors, it's important to emphasize that disaster prevention and response is not just about data centers. The high reliability of the data center, need many parties to participate in the construction, as the barrel effect, any short board will lead to omissions.
Site selection planning and design attention to risk factors
Natural resources are important considerations in data center site planning, such as perennial low temperature, dry climate, abundant water resources, abundant hydropower, which will bring advantages to data center operation.
However, the frequency of global extreme weather, regional climate also gradually changed. As the head of a London data centre put it this summer, “Data centres were designed to withstand high temperatures, but the current extreme temperatures have far exceeded the expectations of many data centre operators.” As a result, the location of data centres has to take more climate variables into account. Year-round cool areas may face high temperatures, arid areas may experience heavy rains, and there is plenty of water and electricity for many cities. Electricity is by no means guaranteed, extreme weather may also make the local rare fire, landslides and other accidents greatly increased. Once-impossible climate problems need to be taken into account by data centre designers and operators to avoid “Exceeding design expectations”, such as flooding in Henan and high temperatures in London.
Infrastructure together builds security
System equipment vendors can help data center security by multiple actions to reduce or prevent the possibility of disaster.
First, constantly improve device performance. For example, the cooling system manufacturer Midea building technology has launched a number of cooling solutions to address the current data center heat dissipation, air conditioning energy consumption and other pain points, effectively improve cooling efficiency.
Second, the application of new technology, research and development of new products, complete the data center fault short board, improve the overall security. For example, the use of small buses and smart PDUs in data centers at the IDCC conference. These products are more resistant to high temperatures, avoid power surges, reduce wire distortion and circuit damage, and improve the stability of power supply and distribution systems.
Third, before the application of new technology to launch new products, do a good job of new technology security, carry out rigorous reliability testing and verification. For example, Huawei Digital Energy carried out hot-swapping tests in the laboratory for SmartLi smart lithium electrical products, parallel uneven mobility tests, and acupuncture experiments in the TUV Institute, the reaction of lithium ternary, lithium manganate and lithium iron phosphate cells after acupuncture was tested to observe whether they would catch fire out of control, and to verify the stability of their battery products.
Fourth, from the level of equipment to achieve intelligent, digital, the introduction of intelligent management system, to achieve visual operation of equipment, fault prediction, location, reduce the difficulty and pressure of operation and maintenance, and thus reduce omissions. For example, ZTE's IDCIM data center intelligent management system, supporting million-level Test Point Access, multi-dimensional visualization, supporting robot inspection, can achieve data center infrastructure life cycle management.
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A wise man will make a mistake. At present, data center disaster prevention is facing many new challenges, and the high reliability of data center needs many parties to participate in the construction.
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Post time: Apr-21-2023