Transcript FAC 7.1: Cost Effective Design and Development Methods for

FAC 7.1: Cost Effective Design
and Development Methods for
the Modern Data Center
Dave Leonard
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FAC 7.1: Cost Effective Design and Development
Methods for the Modern Data Center
Best practices in multi-tenant data center design
and construction learned over dozens of data
centers
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ViaWest Background
Dave Leonard, Chief Data Center Officer – ViaWest
Cloud, Managed Services, Colocation company
27 data centers in the western US
Opened new Denver and Minneapolis data centers in 2014
Opening new Portland and Calgary data center in 2015
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Presentation Background
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2013 AFCOM Data Center World
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Data Center Virtual Tour
Focus on designing to all of:
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Quality
Energy Efficiency
Cost
This presentation expands on:
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Low-cost, incremental build method
Maintaining/improving quality through incremental builds
Flexibility (centered around customers’ needs)
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Quality vs Energy Efficiency vs Cost
Quality
Average Corporate
Very High Quality
Search/Social
ViaWest Design
Energy Efficiency
Cost
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Further Discussion
Low cost, incremental build method
How can costs be low with high quality and low PUE?
What does the incremental build look like (phasing)?
Assure quality in an incremental build
Maintain quality
Improve quality
Test/commission safely
Flexibility
Density
Power delivery
Equipment
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Low Cost – High Quality
Elegant design
Natural redundancy
N+1 from cost side, 2(N+1) from customer side
Match operational capability to design simplicity
Standardize and replicate
Economy of design
Economies of scale
No on-the-fly decisions
UPS A
UPS B
UPS C
UPS D
Improve where compelling
Decrease cost
Increase safety
Increase reliability
Has to be REALLY compelling
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What Does Phasing Not Look Like?
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4
Phase 5
Phase 6
Phase 7
It is NOT phasing by data hall tied to individual infrastructure
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ViaWest Phasing
Space Phase 1
Space Phase 4
• Build white floor up-front
• Build skeleton for full infrastructure
(electrical, cooling) build-out
• Initially deploy minimal infrastructure
• Incrementally add infrastructure as growth
and density dictates
• Use standard, commodity building blocks
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Assuring Quality
Risks to avoid
Outage/impact to live customer load
Degradation of quality
Compromise to original intent – dead-ends
Testing methods
Build all phases into overall plan
Build all commissioning points between phases into overall plan
Protect all load paths while still commissioning new capacity
Design methods
Design “wrap-arounds everywhere” and alternate feed points into the
design
Design for the end goal of full build-out (Phase N)
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Overall Design is our Guide
Overall design targets a particular quality
Fault tolerant in some markets
Concurrently maintainable in some markets
Phase quality
Quality is maintained or increased with each phase
Early phases may be concurrently maintainable even if
overall design target at full build is fault tolerant
Overall design is a guide on incremental builds
Makes sure that individual phases don’t create dead-ends
Ensures proper commissioning “hooks”
Enables quality to be build certified at phases
Ensures the ultimate overall design quality is not
compromised
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Customer Flexibility – Density
Cabinet power is increasing…kind of
12-15kW cabinets (steady state draw) common
25kW cabinets very rare
Very low density cabinets (1-2kW) very common
Density variability has gone through the roof
Dealing with density
Ducted air delivery
Containment
Elegant air flow
Density change adjustment
Increasing density
Growth, refresh
Decreasing density
New customer in space
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Customer Flexibility – Distribution
Power distribution methods
Whips
PDUs
Panels
Busway/BusDuct
Distribution voltages
120/208
240/415
230/400
220, 221, whatever…
Distribution locations
Underfloor
Overhead
Within cage
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Customer Flexibility – Equipment
Customer equipment is very variable
Bottom to top cooling
Side to side cooling
Front to back cooling
Racks
No rack - standalone
Widths are increasing – 19”  28”
Depths are increasing – 36”  48”
Heights are increasing – 42U  52U
Equipment power
Single corded
Dual corded
Multi-corded i.e. Juniper 9214
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3 Key Things You Have Learned During this Session
1. Managing trade-offs between data center
quality, energy efficiency and cost.
2. Maintaining/improving quality throughout a multiphase data center implementation.
3. Driving data center flexibility to support diverse
customer needs.
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Thank you
Dave Leonard
Chief Data Center Officer
[email protected]
303-881-2112 (cell)
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