I have been tasked with remodeling our data center. I have come up with a plan of two rows of 9 racks. In the center of one row I will have three network racks. One of my considerations is putting a couple switches in select racks to minimize some of the cabling and in the other patch panels. Is this a good idea? What types of switches would be best for this with out spending crazy amounts fo money? I do not have a large data center and will probably be housing about 90+ servers (this is counting future growth).
I also have the posibility of gettting some blade servers down the road and have plan to scatter them around the racks like ( 2 in each row and about several racks apart). Is this also a good idea? Please execpt my apologies in advance as I'm not very versed in data center building and am new to this, but of course want to create a very nice and easy to grow datacenter with the abilities to move servers in and out with as little problems as possible. I have accounted for growth in the future with having space to add racks when needed.
Hope someone can help?
Thanks in advance
GManfredy
You appear to be a novice when it comes to data center issues. I recommend you find an engineering firm in your area with data center experience to help you with this project. Alternatively, contact one of the advertisers listed in the "Data Center Services" section on the left margin of the dct home page. No offense, but your company will not be best served by your implementing free advice you receive from random strangers on an Internet forum (even a great one like this).
No offense taken as I said I am new to this and I will be using a professional service to build this dc. I was just curious as to what anyone thinks of the idea that was pitched. As this project moves forward I just want to pick as many brains as I possibly can for my own benefit. As this forum is great and filled with idea and information on helpful products. You can never learn enough I always say.
Thanks for the list of firms that is a great help.
If your going to do your datacenter on your own, the least of your worries is the placement of switching and cabling, that can be changed fairly easily, more importantly you need to worry about your power distribution, power backups and air handling, these are things that cannot be easily changed when a datacenter is in operation and are very critical in the operation of a datacenter, especially if your considering blade servers as they will increase your power/sq ft and AC/sq ft requirements.
Our datacenter did a similar thing, by placing 48 port switches at the top of our dedicated server racks and running two uplinks to a distribution switch in our core. This eliminated tons of cabling issues by running one cable from the server to the top of the rack and two cables from the rack to the core. We were literally hacking away old cabling once we made this move, so expansion in the future wouldn't cause any more cabling issues.
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TIA/EIA Standard 942 - Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers (electronic version not recommended due to restrictive DRM)
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