Data Center Handbook

Hwaiyu Geng, P.E., 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, HP, and Intel on multi-million high-tech projects. He has written and presented numerous technical papers at DatacenterDynamics, ASME and IIE conferences, and is also the editor/author of Manufacturing Engineering Handbook (McGraw Hill, 2004), Semiconductor Manufacturing Handbook (McGraw Hill, 2005), and Data Center Handbook (Wiley, 2014). He is a patent holder.

CONTRIBUTORS xxi PREFACE xxiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxv TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD xxvii CHAPTER ORGANIZATION xxix PART I Data CENTER Ov erview and Strategic Planning 1 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 Other Considerations 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 Haibo Li 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 Facility Layout 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 Centers 229 Sean S. Donohue 13 Structural Design in Data Centers: Natural Disaster Resilience 245 David Bonneville and Robert Pekelnicky 14 Data Center Telecommunications Cabling 257 Alexander Jew 15 Dependability Engineering for Data Center Infrastructures 275 Malik Megdiche 16 Particulate and Gaseous Contamination in Data Centers 307 Taewon Han 17 Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications in Data Centers 313 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 Centers 391 Omar Cherkaoui and Ramesh Menon 21 Green Microprocessor and Server Design 401 Guy AlLee 22 Energy Efficiency Requirements in Information Technology Equipment Design 419 Joe Prisco and Jay Dietrich 23 Raised Floor versus Overhead Cooling in Data Centers 429 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 Centers 619 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 of Data Centers 659 Hwaiyu Geng and Masatoshi Kajimoto Index 669