Data Center Handbook (eBook)

Hwaiyu Geng, P.E., (Palo Alto, California) is a consultant with Amica Association, promoting green planning, design, and construction projects. He has had over 40 years of manufacturing and management experience, working with Westinghouse, Applied Materials, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel on multimillion high-tech projects. He has written and presented numerous technical papers at DatacenterDynamics, ASME, and IIE conferences. Mr. Geng, a patent holder, is also the editor/author of Semiconductor Manufacturing Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2005), and Manufacturing Engineering Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2004).

CONTRIBUTORS xxi

PREFACE xxiii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxv

TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD xxvii

CHAPTER ORGANIZATION xxix

PART I Data CENTER Ov erview and Strategic Planning1

1 Data Centers--Strategic Planning, Design, Construction,and Operations 3
Hwaiyu Geng

2 Energy and Sustainability in Data Centers 15
William J. Kosik

3 Hosting or Colocation Data Centers 47
Chris Crosby and Chris Curtis

4 Modular Data Centers: Design, Deployment, and OtherConsiderations 59
Wade Vinson, Matt Slaby, and Ian Levine

5 Data Center Site Search and Selection 89
Ken Baudry

6 Data Center Financial Analysis, ROI and TCO 103
Liam Newcombe

7 Overview of Data Centers in China 139
Zhe Liu, Jingyi Hu, Hongru Song, Yutao Yang, and HaiboLi

8 Overview of Data Centers in Korea 153
Minseok Kwon, Mingoo Kim, and Hanwook Bae

PART II Data Center Design and Construction 161

9 Architecture Design: Data Center Rack Floor Plan and FacilityLayout Design 163
Phil Isaak

10 Mechanical Design in Data Centers 183
John Weale

11 Electrical Design in Data Centers 217
Jay S. Park and Sarah Hanna

12 Fire Protection and Life Safety Design in Data Centers229
Sean S. Donohue

13 Structural Design in Data Centers: Natural DisasterResilience 245
David Bonneville and Robert Pekelnicky

14 Data Center Telecommunications Cabling 257
Alexander Jew

15 Dependability Engineering for Data Center Infrastructures275
Malik Megdiche

16 Particulate and Gaseous Contamination in Data Centers307
Taewon Han

17 Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications in Data Centers313
Mark Seymour

18 Environmental Control of Data Centers 343
Veerendra Mulay

19 Data Center Project Management and Commissioning 359
Lynn Brown

PART III Data Center Technology 389

20 Virtualization, Cloud, SDN, and SDDC in Data Centers391
Omar Cherkaoui and Ramesh Menon

21 Green Microprocessor and Server Design 401
Guy AlLee

22 Energy Efficiency Requirements in Information TechnologyEquipment Design 419
Joe Prisco and Jay Dietrich

23 Raised Floor versus Overhead Cooling in Data Centers429
Vali Sorell

24 Hot Aisle versus Cold Aisle Containment 441
Dave Moody

25 Free Cooling Technologies in Data Centers 465
Nicholas H. Des Champs and Keith Dunnavant

26 Rack-Level Cooling and Cold Plate Cooling 479
Henry Coles, Steve Greenberg, and Phil Hughes

27 Uninterruptible Power Supply System 495
Chris Loeffler and Ed Spears

28 Using Direct Current Network in Data Centers 523
Sofia Bergqvist

29 Rack PDU for Green Data Centers 533
Ching-I Hsu

30 Renewable and Clean Energy for Data Centers 559
William Kao

31 S mart Grid-Responsive Data Centers 577
Girish Ghatikar, Mary Ann Piette, and Venkata Vish Ganti

PART IV Data Center Operations and Management 593

32 Data Center Benchmark Metrics 595
William J. Kosik

33 Data Center Infrastructure Management 601
Mark Harris

34 Computerized Maintenance Management System in Data Centers619
Peter Sacco

PART V Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity 639

35 Data Center Disaster Recovery and High Availability 641
Chris Gabriel

36 Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Preparedness ofData Centers 659
Hwaiyu Geng and Masatoshi Kajimoto

Index 669