Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Data Center Design -Capex and Opex Elements
12:53 AM | 
Posted by
Sushil
Data center is expected to deliver a high speed, high availability and high demand Infrastructure Services to business. A properly designed data center delivers Availability, Reliability, Scalability and off course Accessibility. Data Center availability is calculated as 24 (Hours) by 365 (Days) per year minus any Scheduled Maintenance Downtime.
Typical Capex elements in designing a high speed, availability & demand Data Center generally include....
Non-IT Elements:
- Physical Layout Elements: Rectangular Space for optimized planning.
- Physical Security Elements: CCTV, Proximity Cards and Biometric/Retina based access control systems, Water Leakage Detection System, Smoke/Fire Detection System, Water Sprinklers, FM200 Fire Suppression System, CO2 based Fire Extinguishers, Rodent Repellents
IT Equipments Elements
- Networking Communication Systems
- SAN (Storage Area Networks)
- NAS (Network Attached Storage)
- File/Application/Web Server Farms
- Database Server Farms
- Network Security Element (Firewall, NIDS/NIPS, HIDS/HIPS, Anti-Virus, VA etc.)
Typical Opex elements in designing a high speed, availability & demand Data Center include....
- Salary of IT Admin Staff.
- Salary of Non-IT Admin Staff
- Consumable Costs like Backup Tape, Diesel, Electricity Cost
- Maintenance and Repair Costs.
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