What is a data center?

Currently, the digital economy is leading the development of a new round of economic cycle as the most innovative, active, fastest-growing and most widely influential industrial field in economic development. Various regions are accelerating the development of digital economy, with a view to realizing the upgrading and evolution of new industries, new business forms and new modes based on digital technology, and promoting the sustained and stable development of the economy.

In this process, data centers, which are responsible for data storage and processing, play a cornerstone role and are an important prerequisite and foundation for the development of the digital economy. However, data centers have the problem of high energy consumption and high carbon emission. Under the goal of "double carbon", how to make reasonable layout and planning for data centers, so as to expand the data center industry while promoting energy saving and low carbon data centers has become a must for all parties concerned to think about, and needs to be improved continuously. Therefore, in 2022, the development of data center industry will show three new trends: the proportion of clean energy use continues to increase; high computing power support will become an important purpose of data center development; and empowerment for digital transformation.

Join the 3D visualization module, through three-dimensional simulation technology to restore the complete data center, and further achieve the purpose of centralized deployment and management of many subsystems. Do online real-time view, convenient operation, multiple visual experience, reduce the difficulty of server room management, reduce the pressure of server room operation and maintenance. It provides the best and flexible solution for large-scale outdoor operations, power communication base stations and other sites with limited resources and growing business demands.

Load animation: the interface from the vehicle container into the eyes, and then show the container within the structure of the data room; with the loading of the screen is complete, we can also clearly see the HT visualization simulation of the infrastructure and equipment of the server room. As well as the right side of the 2D data panel, real-time understanding of the equipment in the room.

Environmental Visualization

The core product HT for Web, developed independently, realizes an interactive Web 3D scene, which can be zoomed, panned, rotated, and the devices in the scene can respond to interactive events. Combined with the powerful rendering capabilities of the HT engine, HT for Web ensures efficient and smooth loading and running of the scene and guarantees excellent visualization of the scene. In the 3D visualization of containerized data center, you can view the overview of the current data center, such as capacity statistics, asset statistics, pipeline statistics, alarm statistics and so on. It supports displaying the structural layout within the environment, as well as equipment information such as cabinets, servers, air conditioners, generators, power distribution cabinets, UPS, and so on, corresponding to the containerized server room.

Capacity management visualization

The system can visually view and timely update the situation of cabinet U-bit, power load, load-bearing and storage capacity in each area, and can understand the detailed data of capacity usage of basic equipment in this environment through 2D panel.

When there is new equipment on the rack in the data center cabinet, the system will directly obtain the data information of the new equipment as well as the use of the current U-bit; the distribution statistics of the power load of the cabinet in the server room, and you can choose to differentiate the size of the cabinet power through different colors.

Restore the real scene, meet tens of thousands of data at the same time for automatic updating, taking into account space, power distribution, equipment and other multi-dimensional factors, to enhance the space availability and availability, managers can easily control the global capacity of the server room.

Asset Management Visualization

Traditional asset management forms are less usable and inefficient, and are not applicable to data centers with a large volume or variety of assets. With Hightopo's 3D data visualization technology, you can quickly find resource equipment, locate it, and display its information details through the search function, even in the face of the most complicated assets. In the 3D scene, you can query any asset object, such as equipment model specification or CPU load status. It also supports online remote access by operation and maintenance personnel to any information such as maintenance records, resume information and current operation status that governs the asset object. As follows:

Monitoring of cold storage tanks: whether the cooling mode, cold charging mode, and cold preservation mode are activated normally in the event of a failure in the server room;

Monitoring of expansion tanks: whether they are functioning normally, to ensure that the water pressure is balanced and that the server room is functioning normally;

Monitoring of cooling towers: whether they are functioning normally for circulating water cooling and so on.

The one-to-one correspondence between virtual assets and real assets makes asset management more concise and intuitive, and enables centralized monitoring of assets in multiple server rooms, enhancing the usefulness and utilization of assets and equipment.

Pipeline Visualization

In the 3D visualization environment, you can clearly see the panoramic view of pipeline distribution, and operation and maintenance personnel can click to query all the link information of a single device or display all the devices included in the link, presenting the equipment and lines of the power distribution system of the data center from the introduction of high-voltage mains to the output of the header cabinets (smart buses, PDUs).

Pipeline visualization can effectively sort out the dense electrical pipelines and network lines in the data center, allowing operation and maintenance personnel to more intuitively grasp the distribution and alignment of pipelines in the data center, so as to quickly troubleshoot and repair pipeline-type faults. Proactive warning timely informs the electrical network line layout or non-compliance of transmission, generation and substation links, breaking the current situation of data dispersion, and improving the level of pipeline management and fault resolution efficiency.

Dynamic ring monitoring visualization

One, early warning alarm Intelligent inspection

Dynamic ring monitoring system in the equipment monitoring information, is through the intelligent data interface or sensor collection of multi-faceted monitoring data (such as power supply and distribution, UPS, fire protection system, etc.), to achieve the normal state of the equipment operation of the monitoring, abnormal state prediction, alarm threshold setting, power parameters, emergency plans of the Intelligent monitoring function. When the equipment data exceeds the preset threshold value, the system will provide early warning prompts. It is displayed in a 3D visualization environment combined with a 2D panel to ensure that the proper power supply is always maintained in the server room.

System support for the visualization of the scene to provide intelligent inspection program, operation and maintenance personnel to customize the planning of the inspection path, the inspection nodes for safety management. Auxiliary operation and maintenance personnel to make scientific decisions, a change in the past "close the door to see the report, pat the head to determine the program" phenomenon.

Two, 3D temperature cloud map

Data center "like cold and afraid of heat", with the gradual increase in the scale of computing, the heat will gradually rise. By installing the temperature and humidity monitoring module, which in turn shows the distribution of all the heat sources within the environment, it is possible to quickly locate abnormal temperature zones and alert managers in a timely manner. The real-time temperature data of sub-equipment can be viewed by mouse clicking on the equipment, and the data is presented by a 2D panel.

Adopting 3D temperature cloud map, real-time perception of temperature and humidity inside the computer room, to a large extent, to alleviate the problem of high temperature in the computer room, and put an end to the passive "heat treatment".

In the face of the sudden epidemic, and in the Spring Festival during the operation and maintenance of fewer people, in order to protect the normal operation of major scientific research and medical institutions, to do a good job of data center operation smoothly, 3D visualization container data center is undoubtedly the best choice. The use of vehicles for rapid transportation, according to the demand and site conditions can be scattered or centralized stacked deployment, to achieve rapid scheduling layout. Even if the operation and maintenance personnel are fewer, it can also do 24-hour real-time monitoring, the first time to find the server room security risks, to ensure that the server room operation and maintenance and the continuity of the business of the medical institutions.

With the explosive growth of digitalization, intelligence, e-commerce, and Internet traffic, data centers have become one of the fastest-growing power-consuming devices in the world. It is estimated that in 2020, national data centers will consume about 76 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. If converted into carbon dioxide emissions, the national data center carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 will be nearly 40 million tons. Overall, data center power consumption and carbon emissions accounted for the proportion of society as a whole, although less than the power, chemical, transportation and other high-emission industries, but still not a big emitter. Future data center energy consumption and carbon emissions will grow steadily, so energy saving and emission reduction is a key direction that must be anchored in the long-term development of the data center industry.