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In addition to the selection of highly reliable IT infrastructure equipment for successful data center management, an efficient asset management system is also the key, which is directly related to maintaining the reliable operation of the system, reducing the operating cost of the system, and increasing the profit of the enterprise. Survey reports on the United States, the United Kingdom and other developed European countries show that:
1. The loss of downtime incident is huge, and the loss caused is directly related to the management of the computer room
Large organizations experience 20 serious downtime incidents of “a certain system” each year, and it takes an average of 13 hours and US$140,000 to resolve an incident. Operational losses and legal liabilities caused by downtime are sometimes quite huge. The survey found that 70% of outages were related to line connections, and 85% of them were caused by human error. 80% of the time spent dealing with downtime is to find the wrong device or connection. 42% of companies said it can take at least a day to find a down server.
2. Serious waste of assets and equipment
The survey found that for companies with thousands of server rooms, the average utilization rate of each server is only 10%-20%. 28% of company information center managers do not know how many servers there are in their computer rooms, let alone know the warranty period and maintenance information of idle machines and equipment. The investigation also found that 20%-40% of the infrastructure is idle because the engineer did not remove the wiring from the patch panel in time when the line was reconnected. Approximately 60% of the cost of software licensing is redundant. Low equipment utilization is not only a direct waste of asset investment, but also consumes power and takes up valuable rack space.
3. Energy and space crisis
The survey found that 11% of data centers will have insufficient space in the computer room that year; 14% have reached the power supply limit.
Based on previous work experience and successful experience from many parties, our company has designed and deployed a set of RF-EAM (RFID-Asset Management System) data center asset real-time monitoring platform that meets the characteristics of the data center. It is one of the basic components of the next-generation data center. The system uses RFID automatic identification technology and network and software platforms to provide faster, more careful and more accurate daily management for the monitoring of important business assets such as cabinets.
4. Optimization of data center and migration of new and old computer rooms
According to data from the world’s advanced IT data centers, data centers are not static. About 24-40% of data center assets are moved and updated every year. The main reasons are: optimizing power supply and renewing the old (machine update); implementing virtual technology (for example: cloud computing, etc.); migration of new and old computer rooms.
In response to the above problems, with its current advanced technology and rich implementation experience, it has developed a set of asset monitoring system that meets the characteristics of the data center. Using RFID automatic identification technology and network and software platforms, it provides faster, more careful and more accurate daily management for the monitoring of important business assets such as cabinets, and realizes the functions of real-time monitoring, automatic recording and asset inventory, and further reduces the occurrence of security risks Possible.
solution
The basic environment of the data center is very conducive to the application of RFID technology, because the usual data center is concentrated in a limited area with high density of expensive equipment, and the basic environment such as temperature and humidity is very good, this environment can be reduced The cost of deploying RFID and improving its efficiency. RFID radio frequency identification technology is mainly composed of reading and writing equipment and electronic tags. Between the reading and writing equipment and the electronic tags, the target object is automatically identified through the radio frequency signal, and its related data is obtained, thereby realizing the identification of the object and transmitting the collected data Go to the application system platform for summary, analysis, and processing. This technology has the characteristics of long reading distance, strong penetrating ability, anti-pollution, high efficiency (multiple tags can be processed at the same time), and large amount of information.
Using the above principles and characteristics of RFID, install RFID electronic tags on fixed assets such as the cabinet and its internal equipment, install RFID identification equipment at the entrance and exit of the computer room and inside the cabinet, and combine with the asset management monitoring platform to achieve full visibility of assets and real-time update of information. It can monitor the use and flow of assets in real time, which is embodied in real-time query of equipment location, equipment movement tracking records, alarms, equipment management statistical reports and other management objectives, and establish a set of advanced, standardized and optimized management mechanisms.
1. System composition and architecture
The RFID cabinet asset monitoring system is composed of electronic tags (RFID tags), readers (RFID readers), servers and system software (Tracking Server). This system is in B/S mode. The following figure shows the system architecture of an RFID cabinet asset monitoring system, in which:
Each device in the cabinet is equipped with RFID electronic tags (Tags);
RFID reading system is installed in each cabinet;
RFID reading system is installed at the entrance and exit of the computer room;
·The staff use handheld RFID readers.
2. Main functions
The RFID data center management solution can achieve the following functions:
Equipment monitoring inside the cabinet:
The RFID reading system is installed inside the cabinet to cover the RFID tags of the equipment inside the cabinet. The system can read the RFID tags on the equipment in real time. When the equipment is operated and moved, it will automatically form a work record. The system can realize assets according to the preset alarm value. Monitoring alarm;
Computer room entrance and exit monitoring:
The RFID reading system installed at the entrance and exit of the computer room covers the passage area. Any equipment with RFID tags will be recognized by the system when passing through the area, and the data will be uploaded to the monitoring platform in real time for corresponding data recording and processing;
3D display platform (Horizon View):
Establish a database of equipment and facilities, and add all equipment and facilities in the computer room to the database to clearly manage each equipment and facility and provide the necessary basic data for monitoring;
Perform 3D graphical management of the location of the device; realize the location query of the device;
Record the changes of equipment location in real time and automatically;
In order to dynamically display the equipment at each location on the Monitoring 5 interface, when adding equipment, you can choose the original equipment model or the new equipment model. If the equipment model is added, you need to submit a proportional photo of the front of the equipment;
The alarm function is implemented by the alarm engine deployed on the monitoring node; firstly, an alarm strategy library is established to set the alarm threshold for each collected state data;
Whenever the device data is collected, the alarm engine is called to check the threshold to determine whether an alarm is triggered; if the threshold is exceeded (ie, illegal operation and movement of the device), an alarm is triggered;
After triggering an alarm, add a record to the alarm record and submit it to the general control center; at the same time, call the alarm notification module to send alarm information to other systems.
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