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Tips On How To Design A Data Center

The document provides tips on how to design a data center, including planning for future needs, developing cooling and performance strategies, managing airflow, optimizing cabling, ensuring security, and automating monitoring. Key considerations include location, floor space, backup power and cooling, cable management, and physical security measures.

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Tips On How To Design A Data Center

The document provides tips on how to design a data center, including planning for future needs, developing cooling and performance strategies, managing airflow, optimizing cabling, ensuring security, and automating monitoring. Key considerations include location, floor space, backup power and cooling, cable management, and physical security measures.

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TIPS ON HOW TO DESIGN

A DATA CENTER
VA L U E A D D E D R E S E L L E R G U I D E
DATA CENTER
MARKET SIZE
304.9 Billion 17%
(2020-2024) CAGR

As per a new report by Technavio, the worldwide data


center market size is set to grow by USD 304.87 billion
during 2020-2024, rising at a CAGR of over 17%. Clearly,
data centers are in high demand across the globe.

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SIX TIPS
TO DESIGN A DATA CENTER

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PLAN FOR THE FUTURE
Plan for the future by answering the following questions –

• Location – The right location can often determine the performance of your
facility. Ensure that your prospective site has a large space that can house racks
and larger components such as generators and cooling towers. The infrastructure
should be optimized for space and resource allocation, instead of just filling up
the space with equipment.

• Floor space – How much space is needed to house the datacenter and its
infrastructure? What are the future requirements you foresee? While it is not
always feasible to allocate floor space in advance, you can make the most of the
available space by using flexible and scalable cabinets and racks. They should
have adjustable rails, airflow management options, cable support and protection.
The benefit here is that these will accommodate the growing requirements from
the center as and when required, etc.

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DEVELOP A PERFORMANCE AND
COOLING STRATEGY
One of the first things you should look at is what type of cooling will be required. Some of the options
available are –

• Air cooling – Many companies use air conditioners or chillers to cool their server racks. While
widely used, this is not one of the most efficient methods of cooling.

• Water cooling – An alternative to air cooling is using water-based cooling systems, which are
compact, energy-efficient and, hence, cheaper to operate.

• Localized cooling – Another option is where a unit is set up for each row – allowing for more
precise cooling based on needs of each equipment row.

Moreover, you should also ensure a backup plan for your power and cooling requirements. Datacenter
components do not respond well to fluctuations of temperature. When these lose power, they require
total restarts, leading to downtimes, startup issues and loss of transit data.

Usually, organizations make use of backup generators to make sure 100% uptime for their data centers.

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MANAGE AIRFLOW
Ensuring proper airflow through the data center can contribute to lower energy costs
and higher efficiencies. A good data center airflow management plan is a great way to
keep your facility at the right temperature.

Develop an efficient airflow plan by leveraging the strategies below –

• Plan the main inlet for cool air and outlet of warm air.

• Set up hot and cold aisles by positioning server racks so that the front of one row
faces toward the front of the next row.

• Install physical barriers between server racks for air containment.

• Deploy filler panels within each server row in order to feed chilled air directly to the
equipment.

Also, choosing the right server racks will help use your equipment properly and ensure
ample space for the future. Many new data centers have rows of empty racks that
help to facilitate proper airflow until they are filled.

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ENSURE SECURITY &


OPTIMIZE CABLING
SUPPORT
• Improper cable management can be a • On average, the impact cost of a data
contributing issue to datacenter breach to an organization is over $150
downtime. Avoid this possibility by million in 2020. Many data centers contain
organizing and storing all wiring correctly. business-critical data, making them
particularly vulnerable to cybercrime.
• One way to manage cables is to label and
color code them to make them easier to • To counteract this risk, implement strict
track and maintain. security protocols for your clients,
especially when dealing with cloud
• Using horizontal or vertical cable
applications and on-site data storage.
managers to untangle and streamline is
Additionally, ensure physical security
another method.
measures such as restricted doors,
biometric access and enclosed server racks.

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AUTOMATE AND MONITOR
To maintain the performance of your client’s datacenter, it is important to
have mechanisms in place that can monitor and report on power, cooling,
and networking so as to inform management and help them plan for future
capacity needs.

Detailed planning and monitoring can help ensure that the data center you
design has proper airflow and that the equipment is operating at the right
temperatures. In addition, it will also help keep costs low, reduce
inefficiencies and eliminate wastage for your customers.

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CONCLUSION
• We can help you prepare for data center design and
optimization.

• If you have any questions related to Data center, you


can get in touch with our experts to discuss at
[email protected].

• Hiperdist is one of the top IT distributors in MEA and we


will help you resolve your queries at the earliest.

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