How AI, OpenAI, and ChatGPT impact business and software.
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1. Rittal Data Centre Solutions
Monitor– Manage – Control
Rittal Data Centre Containers
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2. Rittal Overview
• Rittal is a diverse German manufacturing
organisation founded in 1961
• It is a privately held organisation with a
turnover in excess of 2bn Euro
• We currently employ in excess of 11,000
people in over 60 subsidiaries around the
World
• Manufacturing locations include Germany, UK,
USA, China and India
• As well as IT solutions, Rittal also
manufactures:
– Modular enclosures
– Climate control solutions
– Industrial power infrastructure
– Outdoor communications enclosures
• Rittal has been in the ANZ market since 1993
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3. Rittal In IT
• Rittal has OEM rack deals with HP, Dell, IBM, Cisco, Hitachi Data System,
NEC and Network Appliance.
• OEM cooling contracts with HP, Oracle and Cisco
• In 2010 Rittal integrated Lampertz into the IT division in order to strengthen
resources, products and competence in delivering turnkey data centres
• The company has experience in delivering more than 3,500 turnkey data
centres globally
• On average Rittal delivers150 turnkey data centres per year
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4. Key Data Centre Issues
• Financial
– Energy prices continue to rise at an accelerated pace
– The cost of powering the DC is now outstripping the
budget for new IT hardware
• Speed
– There is a need to ramp up and down infrastructure to
deliver processing power as dictated by the user
• Reliability
– Average age of DC is 14 years old
– IT infrastructure is critical to business operation in most
organisations and many current DC are either under or
over engineered
• Efficiency
– Increased efficiency reduces costs and ensures
maximum lifetime of components
– Social and corporate governance are driving the need
to minimise an organisations carbon footprint
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5. Shifting Expectations In The DC
• Traditional perception is that a DC is a multi-year, site constructed,
low density environment
• There is a transition in expectation to where customers expect
modular, flexible, scalable and perhaps most importantly rapidly
deployable expansions
• Modular, pre-engineered and pre-fabricated building blocks are
being deployed to meet the requirements of the new generation of
Data Centres
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6. Containerised Data Centre Market
• Data Centres in a container are nothing new
– Early solutions were driven by hardware vendors and were powered
and cooled by conventional methods
» Clients showed interest in these solutions but really didn’t grasp how they
would fit with existing infrastructure or benefit new applications
– Second generation solutions are characterised by their use of air side
economisers which are supplemented by DX or other cooling systems
» Clients have now moved from the information gathering to determining
suitability based on a higer level of education
• The market is breaking down into two main offerings
– ‘All In One’ self contained pods
– Infrastructure Containers
» Data Halls
» Power
» Cooling
» Other
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7. Application Environments
• Remote Locations
– Where critical skills may be in short supply
– When space may be constrained
– Where traditional build-out may be difficult
– Examples include remote offices or manufacturing and the mining / resource
market
• Temporary DC
– When disaster strikes – fire, flood, earthquake
– To address short term increase in demand
– For DR sites
• Mobile Data Centre
– Defence
– TV / Movie production
• Cloud
– HPC applications
– Point of use locations
– Low cost operating environments
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8. Financial Benefits Of A Containerised Approach
• Capital Costs
– Higher density deployments require less space
– Just in time construction reduces oversizing
– Off site fabrication negates potential labour price issues
• Energy Costs
– Containerised solutions capable of using the latest technologies to reduce
energy consumption eg air side economizers
• Capital Efficiency
– The pay as you grow approach enables easier start up for new projects as
businesses can be supported with less capital commitment
• Risk Reduction
– Pre-engineered and tested environments reduce the time spent performing
integration activities and gets the facility operational quicker
• Investment Protection
– The asset can move with the organisation as and when required – no longer is
the investment lost when a move is required
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9. RDCC Concept
Mobile, energy efficient, plug & play Data Center
Rittal Data Center Container
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10. Facts & Features
• XL Dimensions – it’s not a shipping container
– Lengths of between 6mtr and 12mtr
– Widths of up to 3.6mtr
– Height of 3.25mtr
– Containers can be joined together
• The interior panels of the container provide a
standard F30 fire protection (F90 optional) from
the inside out for the wall and ceiling elements
• Burglary protection in accordance to resistance
class II, or optional resistance class III, offered by
the security door of the Rittal Data Centre
Container.
• Cable ducts for the entry of data and energy
cables into the inner container, the packing room
offers the dimension of 120 x 120 mm.
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11. Facts & Features
• Heavy weight raised floor that acts as an air
plenum and supports the routing of data and
power cables. Overall height is 300 mm.
• 19“ Racks available in 42U or 47U with widths of
600mm or 800mm and depths of 1000mm or
1200mm
• Cold aisle containment and / or hot aisle
containment to ensure maximum efficiency by
firmly segmenting cold and hot aisles
• Modular, high efficiency UPS technology scalable
from 10kW through to 200kW in a sinlge rack
• Power distribution via intelligent power rails with
ability to monitor all the way down to a socket
level
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12. Facts & Figures
• Fire detection and suppression through the compact
Rittal DET-AC XL. Use of Novec 1230 which is
environmentally friendly and harmelss to humans
• Monitoring by using the Rittal CMC III and RiZone
management software. Supervision of performance,
temperatures, humidity, power, access and 3rd party
SNMP devices
• Comprehensive care by the Rittal Global Service,
represented worldwide by many service-hubs
• Complete project management of your Data Centre
Container from concept to realisation
• High efficiency cooling of up to 60kW per rack
• ............ and more
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13. Facts & Figures
• Direct Free Cooling with supplementary
DX back up
• Unit size up to 10kW
• Fully self contained system with no
external parts
• Multiple units can be placed along the
length and / or width of the container
• The simplest and easiest way in the data
centre to:
– Reduce PUE
– Increase efficiency
– Minimise carbon footprint
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14. Direct Free Cooling Operation
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15. ASHRAE Operating Envelope & Opportunity For Free Cooling
Corrosion
Allowable
Airflow
Envelope
Cost
Operating Reliability
Envelope
Noise Power
Performance
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16. ASHRAE Recommended Envelopes
• The increase in the recommended temperature and humidity
envelope in 2008 was done to increase the opportunity to use
compressor-less cooling solutions
2004 2008
Low End Temperature 20 deg C 18 deg C
High End Temperature 25 deg C 27 deg C
Low End Moisture 40% RH 5.5 deg C DP
High End Moisture 55% RH 60% RH & 15 deg C
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17. ASHRAE Recommended Envelope 2011
• In 2011 ASHRAE issued their latest Thermal Guidelines for Data
Processing Environments
Operational
New Guidance
Class
Naming
New
Classes
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18. ASHRAE Recommended Envelope 2011
• ASHRAE have been keen to point out that the ‘Recommended’
envelope is one which provides the best reliability with minimum
power consumption and best performance
• The drive for an increased use of air side economizers for as many
hours per year means that the server inlet temperature may
sometimes fall outside of the recommended levels
• The expansion of the ‘Allowable’ envelopes for Class A3 & A4
therefore gives further opportunity for a reduction in the number of
hours that compressors are run each year
• Initial research conducted by ASHRAE indicates that there is little or
no difference in operational reliability for IT equipment when sited in
a data centre that utilises air side economizers
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19. The Opportunity For Direct Free Cooling In Australia
With Peak Supply Temperature of 24 deg C and 65% RH
• Melbourne 97.57% per annum
• Adelaide 98.32% per annum
• Perth 93.14 %
• Sydney 83.33%
• Brisbane 62.65%
• Cairns 24.38%
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20. Example Installation – Orion Energy
• Main electricity provider in Christchurch, NZ
• Requirement to restore DC as quickly as
possible following 2011 earthquake
• Solution comprised container with dimensions of
(L x W x H) 10500 x 3000 x 3250mm, 19’’ TS8
42 U racks with power distribution (PSM), 4 x10
kW Direct Free Cooling + preparation for 5th
device, fire detection and extinguishing system
(Novec 1230, DET-AC XL), monitoring via GSM
(CMC), UPS 30 kW redundant (15 min.)
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21. The Rittal Road Show DC Container
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22. The Rittal Road Show DC Container
• 6.0mtr x 3.0mtr container with 5 off cable entry
ducts, keypad security access and 300mm raised
floor
• 3 off 10kW Direct Free Cooling Units with DX
supplementary cooling arranged in an N+1
configuration
• Switchboard built by Sage Automation with ATS and
power monitoring
• Modular UPS in 20kW N+1 configuration
• Intelligent power rail rails with redundant circuit and
plug in modules
• 5 off 47U x1000mm deep racks (4 x 600w and 1 x
800w)
• Cold Aisle Containment system
• Early fire detection and suppression system with
Novec1230 gas from Kidde
• Environmental monitoring of temperature and
humidity in cold aisle, temperature in hot aisle,
leakage detection and monitoring of UPS, Direct
Free Cooling and UPS
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23. Summary
• Containerised Data Centre Solutions from Rittal provide:
– Quality turn key solutions delivered in a fraction of the time compared to
traditional builds
– Modular and scalable solutions that enable you to invest in today with
the assurance you can grow seamlessly in the future
– Reduced OPEX by ensuring the component parts operate in their ‘sweet
spot’ thanks to Right Sizing
– Future proofing of investment by ensuring infrastructure assets can be
easily redeployed
– Reduced carbon footprint through the adoption of high efficiency
technologies such as direct free cooling
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