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Resilience level - the non scheduled down time allowed for 95% (18.25 days), 99% (3.65 days), 99.9% (8.76 hours) must keep spare parts, 99.99% (52.56 minutes) switch over to emergency system, 99.999% (5.3 minutes) no Single Point of Failure and full redundancy system.

Modular system core frame to install UPS and battery modules and extension frame that can be combined with core frame to provide larger capacity. For instance, UPS is scalable to 240 kVA (Reros); Modular chiller plant scalable to 200 refrigerant tons (http://www.modularchiller.com/ ); BUT not for all kinds of equipment (i.e. Rotary UPS, Diesel Generator, CRACs but more small rating units)

P.S. Video, how a rotary UPS works https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/05/03/video-demo-how-a-rotary-upsworks/ P.S. Tender specification / brief of various supplier http://www.buildingdesign-tenders.co.uk/Electrical/led-lighting.htm

Tier level TIA-912 (http://www.scribd.com/doc/49687765/Chloride-Data-centre-tier-classifications ) or Uptime institute http://www.cablinginstall.com/index/display/article-display/8528349839/articles/cabling-installation-maintenance/volume-18/issue2/features/data-center_tier_classifications.html

Uptimes Tier levels requirements

Tier level Data center requirements 1) A single, non-redundant distribution path serving IT equipment. 2) Non-redundant capacity components. 1) All Tier 1 requirements. Tier 2 2) Redundant capacity components. 1) All Tier 1 and 2 requirements. 2) Multiple independent distribution paths serving IT equipment. Generally, only one distribution path serves equipment at any given time. 3) All IT equipment is dual-powered and fully compatible within the topology of a site's architecture. 1) All Tier 1, 2 and 3 requirements. Tier 4 2) The facility is fully fault-tolerant, through electrical, storage and distribution networks. 3) All cooling equipment is independently dualpowered, including HVAC systems.

Tier 1

Tier 3

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Grey power political, financial or social influence of elderly people

SPEC power Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation formed by computer industry participants to establish industry standards for measuring computer performance, a most influential benchmark consortium, ensure marketplace has a fair and useful set of metrics to analyze the newest generation of IT equipment. Latest version documents available at http://www.spec.org/power/docs/SPEC-Power_and_Performance_Methodology.pdf (Aug 2011)

Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC 9.9) 2011 create a common set of environmental guidelines that IT equipment would be designed to meet, concerns to computing efficiency, power usage effectiveness (PUE); guidance to operators on maintaining high reliability and most energy efficient manner.

Operating temperature 18-27 degC and humidity 20~80%

ETSI EN 300 019 Class 3.1 - European Telecommunications Standards Institute Digital Video Broadcasting

IPMI 2.0 rev 4 Intelligent Platform Management Interface promoted by commercial sectors Dell, HP and NEC. IPMI helps lower the overall costs of server management by enabling customers to save time, maximize IT resources and potentially manage multivendor environments in the same way. Common interfaces that allow IT managers to receive status alerts, send instructions to industrystandard servers and run diagnostics over a network. IPMI 2.0 is designed to extend customers' IT capabilities and further improve remote management by introducing enhanced security, remote access and configuration capabilities, while maintaining compatibility with previous IPMI versions. The next-generation IPMI

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also offers customers more cost-effective implementation options, which can provide greater flexibility and lower the cost of server deployment. Additional features of the new specification include: New authentication and encryption algorithms enhances security for remote management access Serial over LAN (SOL) supports remote interaction with serial-based applications, BIOS and operating system SMBus system interface provides low-pin count connection for low-cost management controllers

Firmware Firewall supports partitioning and protection of management between blades in modular system implementations IPMI payloads provides infrastructure for Serial Over LAN and OEM value-added redirection capabilities

New user login and configuration options enable user access-rights and security configuration capabilities to be tailored to the needs of the user's facility IPMI 2.0 specify on support of verus server platform, Advanced TCA for Blade system, Firmware Firewall, updates to the boot options, Entity IDs, Sensor Types, and the RAKP description, etc.

DCMI Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, is an open organization supporting innovation in metadata design and best practices across the metadata ecology. DCMI's activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, global conferences, meetings and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and best practices. The word "metadata" means "data about data". Metadata articulates a context for objects of interest -- "resources" such as MP3 files, library books, or satellite images -- in the form of "resource descriptions". As a tradition, resource description dates back to the earliest archives and library catalogs. The modern "metadata" field that gave rise to Dublin Core and other recent standards emerged with the Web. The consolidation of Resource Description Framework (RDF) motivated an effort to translate the mixed-vocabulary metadata style of the Dublin Core community into an RDF-compatible DCMI Abstract Model (2005). The DCMI Abstract Model was designed to bridge the modern paradigm of unbounded, linked data graphs with the more familiar paradigm of validatable metadata records like those used in Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

SMASH - Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware is a suite of specifications that deliver industry standard protocols to increase productivity of the management of a data center. SMASH 1.0 enables vendor-independent, platform-neutral server management, which empowers customers to realize increased efficiencies, reduced costs and fewer training requirements as a result. Industry supporters include Broadcom, Dell, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Symantec, WBEM, etc.

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol, is an "Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks. Devices that typically support SNMP include routers, switches, servers, workstations, printers, modem racks, and more. An SNMP-managed network consists of three key components: Managed device : is a network node that implements an SNMP interface that allows unidirectional (read-only) or bidirectional access to node-specific information. Managed devices can be routers, access servers, switches, bridges, hubs, IP telephones, IP video cameras, computer hosts, and printers Agent a network-management software which resides on managed devices. An agent has local knowledge of management information and translates that information to or from an SNMP specific form Network management system (NMS) software which runs on the manager (one or more administrative computers). NMSs provide the bulk of the processing and memory resources required for network management. One or more NMSs may exist on any managed network.

Approximation a guess or estimate. An approximation is a representation of something that is not exact, but still close enough to be useful. The type of approximation used depends on the available information, the degree of accuracy required, the sensitivity of the problem to this data, and the savings (usually in time and effort) that can be achieved by approximation.

Problem with restarting virtural machine - After shutting down and restarting a VM that was working correctly. The VM will not start and gives an error. A virtual machine system includes a first operating system for operating a virtual machine, a first manager for controlling to divide a physical resource into a plurality of virtual resources and assign at least one of the plurality of virtual resources as a unit to the virtual machine, the physical resource including at least a central processing unit and a memory, and a second operating system for controlling the first operating system, the second operating system being connected to a storage unit.

ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a set of practices for IT service management (ITSM) that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business. ITIL v3 certification levels are: Foundation, Intermediate, Expert and Master. There are 26 processes listed in the FIVE volumes of ITIL v3 2011 edition: 1. 2. ITIL Service Strategy ITIL Service Design

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3. 4. 5.

ITIL Service Transition ITIL Service Operation ITIL Continual Service Improvement

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Capture carbon dioxide from large industrial facilities Transport CO2 through pipelines Permanently store CO2 in deep secure underground formations

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Pilot plant begin in Eastern Germany power plant Schwarze Pumpe in September 2008 Reduce CO2 emission by 80~90% Compress CO2 may increase fuel needs of plant by 25~40% (i.e coal-fired CCS plant) Increase in energy bill by 21~91% North America has storage capacity for 900 years carbon dioxide at current production rates Risk of CO2 leakage from storage into atmosphere Alternatively, CO2 recycling to form methanol and hydrocarbons

SLA monitoring Services Level Agreement records the expected contents and requirements of IT services to a corporation (i.e. MTBF and MTTR)

Storage Thin Provisioning act of using virtualization technology, look like more physical resource than is actually available, a shared storage environment. It relies on on-demand allocation of blocks of data versus the traditional method of allocating all the blocks up front. It defers storage capacity upgrades and save the operating costs (electricity and floorspace) associated with keeping unused disk capacity spinning.

Contained rack system rack with underneath cooler

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Air flow management - the data center would ideally have zero bypass and recirculation air flow CRAC flow: Total air-flow rate produced by all operating CRAC units in the data center is normally greater than that required by the servers, due to part load operation of IT and communications equipment, and redundant CRAC units that are kept operational. Bypass airflow: Air that leaves the floor grills and returns directly to the CRAC unit without cooling servers. Re-circulation airflow: Air discharged from servers that returns and mixes with chilled air entering the servers.

Legacy data centers, particularly if not well-managed, tend to have high levels of both bypass and re-circulation flow rates, which are increased when subject to higher density loads. Cabinet inlet refers to closed cabinets with air entry from below and with fans on top of the cabinet to extract heat. Generally there are no blanking plates within the cabinets, and inlet and exhaust air streams are not segregated, producing high levels of recirculation. Bypass air is better managed unless there are a large number of floor grills, which would bypass air back to the CRAC units. Back-to-front arrangements tend to have low bypass but high levels of re-circulation from the back of the cabinets to the front of the cabinets in the same aisle. Cold-aisle/hot-aisle arrangements, if properly designed and operated, can address the main problems of re-circulation. However, particularly at low loads, there will be high levels of bypass air, unless some type of variable air-flow control is fitted. Cold-aisle/hot-aisle schemes with all best design practices such as CRAH units in galleries with high bay ceiling (or return ceiling plenum with ducted CRAHs), blanking panels, cable brushes, foam pillows, and continuous rows have shown reduced recirculation and bypass levels. However, a big opportunity still exists. For high density loads, there are several designs whose basic intent is to contain and separate the cold air from the heated return air on the data floor: hot-aisle containment; cold-aisle containment; contained rack supply, room return; room supply, contained rack return; contained rack supply, contained rack return. The separation can be achieved with hard surfaces "glass" or strip curtains for example. Contained cold/hot aisle is a relatively new approach and performance data indicated very low levels of bypass and recirculation. Whereas A Computer Room Air Conditioner (CRAC) includes an internal compressor, using the direct expansion of refrigerant to remove heat from the data center. A Computer Room Air Handler (CRAH) includes only fans and a cooling coil, often using chilled water to remove heat from the data center.

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Storage : http://www.4shared.com/account/dir/BNYbnulb/_online.html?rnd=14 ghost 15GB, max file size is 2gb.

Regards,

CK Chan
Architecture & Facility Engineering Facility Services, Hongkong International Theme Park Limited Tel.(852)35503822

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