With the company having launched a Direct Market Access web
portal for its customers, there was a need to have a data center
with high bandwidth infrastructure to provide the level of high
availability that online stock trading portals demand. The company
decided to deploy the data center within its premises, leveraging
on the high speed LAN network. However, it was challenged to
accommodate the data center within a height of 10 feet, while
providing a full-fledged data center infrastructure.
To accommodate the data center within a height of around nine feet,
the company adopted a different design approach wherein it
restricted the height of the false floor to less than nine inches.
Instead of having the entire cabling system go through the false
floor, the company created a separate patch room for cabling and
moved the chiller pipes below the false floor along with a pump
which manages the water flow.
With a compressor and variable fans, a radiator-like setup was
created with the chiller pipes, to throw in cold air into the
server rooms. Using a cold aisle-hot aisle framework, hot air from
the server exhausts is recycled back into the server room to be
supplied as cold air.
Safety measures include ROCB-based wiring systems with key-lock
switches and access to server rooms and individual racks authorized
via access cards. Remote video surveillance is also deployed to
allow clients to monitor server rooms if required.
This implementation approach allowed the company to have the data
center go live within five weeks of implementation. Operational
benefits include an enhanced power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio
of 1.6 and a 99.99 percent uptime.
Highlights
* Set up a data center in a space with a
height of under 9 feet
* Recycled use of cooling air reduces cooling
costs and helps ‘Go Green’
* Enhanced power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio
to 1.6