MegaFon data center tour

Not so long ago, there was an excursion that was arranged by the distributor partner - the OCS company represented by the marketing manager Lisa Tsaplina.
The data center itself is a fairly high-tech building with a beautiful exterior architectural solution, which many have already heard about. Megafon's data center in Samara has a standard TIER III Design, which is confirmed by a certificate.

Start the tour. This person is responsible for the power of the data center and knows literally every square meter of this building.

The first hall. Around the rack company HUAWEI ...

Where not look everywhere everything is neat and beautiful - standards oblige.

In any complex technological solutions can not do without CISCO.

Of course, SUN Microsystems. In the background, the guys from APC are Alexey and Daria.

Power cable line neatly laid on wire trays.

A little more beauty montage.

Megafonovskaya snot :)

HUAWEI continues ...

Electrical distribution cabinets.

Very neat.

As without connecting people ...

Inside

Outside.

This is the second hall. Customer equipment.

Optics.

Blade

Damir staring ...

An IBM representative is looking for his hardware and can't find ...

APC spokesman Alexey Konkhin tells how cooling is inefficiently arranged here and how much money is spent just like that. Actually, the first thing I noticed when we went to the data center was the lack of organized HACS or RACS, which upset me ...

Poorly used APC cabinets that are not adjacent to HACS.

Work does not stand still ...

The lecture continues on cooling and power in the data center. HP spokesman Igor Lobanov and HP stand - "They found each other."

Display air conditioner with data on the state of the environment in the data center.

The data center employees accompanying us appeared in these halls for the first time ...

There is a little mess everywhere.

OCS employee Ivan Shaldybin is serious as always ...

Another OCS employee for IBM software solutions, frustrated by the lack of products from this vendor, is Alexander Usov.

Elevators probably work on the principle of redundancy - only one works, and the second is activated in case of the first failure ...

Lisa was squeezed by a crowd of IT-men (:

Somewhere continue to be carried out repair work.

Everywhere cameras ...

The makings of a warning system.

A Fujitsu technician is also not very pleased with the fact that their products are not observed on data center racks.

Lots of data ...

The legendary Superdome from HP.

TIER III in action. :) Although, the power engineer said that the cable is not electric ... By the way, this is the door to the holy-holy power of the data center - there are UPSs here.

The first ups we saw just killed. Especially its batteries and how the contacts are protected. And where is Symmetra ...

Actually the UPS batteries themselves.

And more batteries ... The most interesting thing is that all this is on the third floor of the data center. The question arises: what are the overlaps, since they hold such a mass? ..