Planning gets data centers going strong, console management keeps them thriving
Advanced strategic tools can help organizations design more efficient data centers.
By Max BurkhalterAugust 22, 2012
Emerging demands in the data center industry are considerable. With more commercial data centers being built and businesses depending heavily on IT infrastructure, facilities have to be more reliable than ever. At the same time, virtualization is pushing server utilization rates up, creating power and cooling challenges. As a result, organizations need to carefully plan their data center projects and develop systems to manage their facilities more effectively.
According to a recent Cabling Installation & Maintenance report, Computational Fluid Dynamics systems are becoming much more prominent as tools for data center design. CFD solutions are able to track how liquid and gas will travel through either electronic, electrical or mechanical systems within a building. This is not only vital for preparing a data center to withstand flooding, a pipe burst or similar problem, but also for planning how air will flow through the facility to keep systems cool in the most environmentally efficient manner possible.
The news source explained that one of the greatest benefits of CFD systems are that they provide a digital analysis of liquid and air travel patterns in a data center based on the electronic model of a facility. Therefore, engineers can take the architectural designs of the facility and plug them into the CFD software to find out how air and fluid will move through the building. This allows them to make key strategic changes before they even build a prototype model of the data center.
Planning a facility effectively through the use of CFD tools can help data center operators get off to a good start when establishing a structure. However, managing the data center effectively over time requires systems that help IT managers make the most of the architectures and systems that are present. This is especially difficult when businesses are supporting multiple data centers in multiple locations. One of the best ways to handle the complexity of geographically diverse data centers is through console management, which allows IT leaders to change everything from whether the lights are on at a data center to specific server configurations from a central control console or application.
By combining advanced planning tools with sophisticated management systems, businesses can get their data center projects started well and maintain the high standards that were set when the building was constructed.
Perle’s wide range of 1 to 48 port Perle Console Servers provide data center managers and network administrators with secure remote management of any device with a serial console port. Plus, they are the only truly fault tolerant Console Servers on the market with the advanced security functionality needed to easily perform secure remote data center management and out-of-band management of IT assets from anywhere in the world.
According to a recent Cabling Installation & Maintenance report, Computational Fluid Dynamics systems are becoming much more prominent as tools for data center design. CFD solutions are able to track how liquid and gas will travel through either electronic, electrical or mechanical systems within a building. This is not only vital for preparing a data center to withstand flooding, a pipe burst or similar problem, but also for planning how air will flow through the facility to keep systems cool in the most environmentally efficient manner possible.
The news source explained that one of the greatest benefits of CFD systems are that they provide a digital analysis of liquid and air travel patterns in a data center based on the electronic model of a facility. Therefore, engineers can take the architectural designs of the facility and plug them into the CFD software to find out how air and fluid will move through the building. This allows them to make key strategic changes before they even build a prototype model of the data center.
Planning a facility effectively through the use of CFD tools can help data center operators get off to a good start when establishing a structure. However, managing the data center effectively over time requires systems that help IT managers make the most of the architectures and systems that are present. This is especially difficult when businesses are supporting multiple data centers in multiple locations. One of the best ways to handle the complexity of geographically diverse data centers is through console management, which allows IT leaders to change everything from whether the lights are on at a data center to specific server configurations from a central control console or application.
By combining advanced planning tools with sophisticated management systems, businesses can get their data center projects started well and maintain the high standards that were set when the building was constructed.
Perle’s wide range of 1 to 48 port Perle Console Servers provide data center managers and network administrators with secure remote management of any device with a serial console port. Plus, they are the only truly fault tolerant Console Servers on the market with the advanced security functionality needed to easily perform secure remote data center management and out-of-band management of IT assets from anywhere in the world.
