The entire life cycle of a data center is divided into several stages. The major stages include two, one is the construction period and the other is the operation period. The goal of the construction period is the delivery of the data center, which can also be subdivided into several stages: planning, feasibility study, design, construction, verification testing, and delivery. Construction delivery has always been a problem that bothers everyone. The engineering team hopes to hand over as soon as possible. The maintenance team has been looking for faults. The contradiction is still quite serious. This is not a company but a common phenomenon in the industry. So going back to the source, if there are several points like this, there may be fewer conflicts.
First, the maintenance team will intervene as soon as possible, participate in the review of the construction plan, and make the final delivery system clearer, taking the system plan and detailed design as the consensus, so as to avoid the ambiguity of the final acceptance. At present, most data centers basically have their own computer room management system, which is based on DCIM and dynamic loop, and realizes real-time monitoring and management of IT equipment and infrastructure in the computer room through software, hardware and sensors.
However, as the number of data centers continues to increase, management is becoming more and more refined. Most of the computer room management systems such as DCIM and dynamic ring can only perform equipment-level monitoring and management. The port status and port utilization rate of the equipment in the computer room, The more refined information such as the remaining space of the rack, the connection route of the cables, the relationship between the devices, etc. are managed in the most traditional form of tables. The disadvantages of the form management are obvious: first, it is not easy to save, and secondly, when it fails. When it happens, it cannot be quickly searched, and finally it cannot be shared by multiple people. Therefore, it is recommended that the operation and maintenance personnel in the initial stage of the data center construction can propose a complete set of computer room management systems from large equipment such as computer room air conditioners and cabinets to ports and lines. Take precautions and reduce a lot of burden on future operation and maintenance work.
Second, think about it. To reduce the contradiction between the construction team and the operation and maintenance team, the detailed work in the early stage of construction should be done well. The identification, operation space, cable arrangement, etc. are the most basic problems of project quality, but many project problems are in the details. For example, it has appeared that the valve needs to be 5 meters high to operate, and this valve can be built on a pipeline that can be operated on the ground. Keep in mind that the system is for future operation and maintenance. It is straightforward and simple to look at problems from an operator's perspective.
The Nvisual computer room line management platform can automatically generate cables and equipment labels. The label naming is based on the "Standard Commercial Building Telecommunications Infrastructure Management Standard ANSI/TIA-606-C-2017" specification, supports linkage with label printers, and automatically prints labels to reduce manual Error, you can also create a connection between the two ports between the devices, view the device port capacity and port usage, automatically generate the link physical topology map, and support the rapid positioning of the device and link according to a certain attribute of the device and link.
Third, the delivery materials must be comprehensive and clear. This is the last straw that can solve problems in the future. The construction team and the manufacturer may disappear in a few years, but the operation and maintenance personnel need to stick to it all the time. Information is the key to verifying the problem in the future.
However, the current status quo is that the completion drawings of the construction including some early-stage equipment and cable connection information are nowhere to be found after a period of operation in the computer room, especially the inspection reports and configuration information of some products. The business no longer exists, and the person in charge of the company has resigned, so when a failure occurs, it will invisibly cause a lot of pressure and challenges on operation and maintenance. The Nvisual computer room line management platform supports the upload of various types of files. Paper materials that are not easy to save at ordinary times can be directly uploaded to the corresponding equipment, and downloaded and viewed at any time when needed. It supports the migration of documents in and out, which is convenient for data management.
The above points are the major contradictions between the data center construction team and the operation and maintenance team. In order to reduce the occurrence of contradictions, from planning, to design, to selection of equipment, to construction, to acceptance, each link of the entire process should not be significant. Every detail should be grasped from big to small. The Nvisual computer room line management platform can help data center operation and maintenance personnel improve work efficiency, reduce work pressure, make the data center more distinctive, and manage more standardized, thereby reducing construction teams and operations. The contradiction of Wei Da.
