Our Data center has a 10,000A (6.5 MVA @220/380V, 60 Hz) rated capacity parallelling switchgear to supply critical load. However, the demand load is calculated @ 7.8 MVA. Our Electrical Consultant recommended a 4-2000KVA capacity prime generator, single paralleling digital switchgear(PSG). My...
Data center design and infrastructure, Data Center power management, data center generator
What do you think is the most power-efficient data center cooling setup? What kind of setup do you implement in your data center? Are there ways you would like to improve it; how?
Data center cooling, Data center air conditioning units, Data center design
Does anyone have a suggestion or an example of building a data center or NOC in MS Project? - Larry
Microsoft Project, Data center moving, Data center planning
Would like to learn all what is related to data center planning, management, design, operations, etc. What kind of documents, book, career path should I follow if I'd like to be in this kind of business. Thanks in advanced
Data Center management, Data center design and infrastructure, Data center planning
Planing for moving the data centre to a new location and moving some of them as is and build new ones. so Need a document which covers every thing in terms of planning design implement and cut over.
Data center design, Data center design and infrastructure, Data center planning
In a hot aisle/cold aisle floor design, best practices are not to mix the hot air with the cold air. I am using blanking panels, floor grommets, everything that I've learned over the years in managing data centers to get the optimal cooling from my CRAC units. One question I have relateing to...
Data center design, Data center design and infrastructure, Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle
there are 200 computers in my office , which communication mechanism should i use and what type of routers and switches should i use
If the building floor loading is 3 kpa and the equipment is 2,000 kg (950 x 600 mm), and is located in a computer room with raised floor environment, can the building and environment support that 2,000 kg equipment?
I need to connect several AC redundant appliances (Servers, Load Balancers, Switches, Firewalls, etc) to other non-redundant ones (SAN Switches, KVM). I have AC PDU’s for redundant and non-redundant devices, but I haven’t figured out the best way to avoid my non-redundant devices being cut off...
Are there restrictions on installing overhead cable trays near sprinkler heads?
Currently, our data center is located in my existing Corporate HQ. We have purchased a 10k square foot building to put the new DC in (It will use 4k square feet.) I am being asked if I would like the additional 6k square feet of the building to use gas heat or electric. My gut (and consultant)...
Data center design and infrastructure, Data center infrastructure
A SearchDataCenter reader wrote in with this question: What is the difference in the performace of hfc227 compared with HFC 125 in the same application? What are the disadvantages of HFC 125 compared to HFC227(FM200)?
Data center design and infrastructure, Data center physical security, Fire suppression
We are planning to acquire 6 to 8 additional 20-30 ton dual sourced (chilled water and Gylcol) CRAC units for our data center. We will also need to purchase 150 tons (could be one gylcol unit or multiple smaller units) of gylcol capacity. We have historically dealt with the same manufacturer. I...
Data center air conditioning units, Data center cooling, Data center design and infrastructure
Concerning the physical network design in Data Centers which have quite a mix of high density blade centers, small 1-U servers, storage, mainframe, etc., I'd like to hear what standards are being followed. Are you using fiber fed switches to each rack, patch panels in each rack, cat5 or cat6 e,...
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get involved with build outs for data centers from a telecom perspective. My company is looking for opportunities to build out our network but I need to be able to present them with the scenario. I realize this might sound like a "sales" message or...


