Recommendations on choosing a data center in Russia. Likbez on data center services
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We all someday find ourselves in a situation where we need to place the server equipment not in our server room or on the apartment’s balcony. It's great if you see the difference between the server and the data center, but if you still do not understand, then the article is just for you. This article summarizes the basic requirements for placement in data centers and possible related services.
Most of the data centers were sent a tabular form to fill out, in order to collect information about their services and prices. Information of a purely public nature, of which all were informed. Those who sent, those will be used in the examples. Prices are for the month of October.
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At the very beginning of the migration path to the data center, we determine what we are carrying. This can be either a standalone server (1U) or a rack (~ 48U) with equipment.
For this service, it is enough to know how much space (units) it takes and how many watts is required.
Consider what we need at the time of the move from the data center. Suppose you only have equipment and patch cables.
In this case, we will need to rent services:
-stands with electricity (kW)
-stand (cabinet)
-PDU
-AVR
Service Fixed-place - is the placement of rack cabinets dimensions not exceeding some dimensions in width and in depth and summing a certain number of kilowatts. The sizes can be completely different, but usually they do not exceed 600x1100mm. All sizes, which are more than the given example, are considered non-standard and in many data centers the placement of those is impossible.
PDU rental service - Power Distribution Device or, even simpler, a unit with sockets for the equipment being placed. For example, APC AP8853. Mounted in a rack cabinet. Required item. There are managed and not managed. They can connect the monitoring system and see the current status of the power supply. Monitoring is useful for optimizing power consumption equipment.
The service provision for rent AVR - Power supply switching system. It is used when it is necessary to combine the backup power line and the main one in the equipment with one power supply unit.
Service provision for rent Racks (wardrobe) - the usual rack-mounted wardrobe. There may be any height, it all depends on the manufacturer. Manufacturer's example - MINKELS (standard Google racks).
In some data centers, it is possible to rent only a rack, without paying for anything else. This is applicable when, for example, you have a high-end storage system (it goes in your rack) or you use your racks to save on data center services.
It is important to pay attention to the required number of kilowatts. Those. if you count on growth in a budget data center, it will often be impossible to realize this. Only some data centers can provide from 8kW per rack. On average, they give 4-5kW per stand-up space. Calculations of food consumption are carried out individually. Proper PDU will help you save.
Having placed in a data center, we will need various services, among which there are mandatory with possible restrictions, and less in demand. Let's look at them.
It is important that access to equipment is even at night. Often, to get into the machine room, the presence of an employee of the DC is required. It should think about this in advance.
Work is work, but there is something you need, even during the deadline. This requirement is applicable in order to eat not above the server, and not far from the machine, without leaving the data center.
Sometimes it takes a long time to assemble a server or unpack equipment, etc. For this there is a room where you can do dirty work in a convenient place.
Often the equipment comes to the data center without engineers or there is so much of it that you can’t assemble it in a working day. In such cases, it is required to store the equipment for a long time or for a long time, if it is, for example, spare parts.
KVM may not always help, and a specialist’s departure to the data center may not be possible. For this there is a support on duty from the data center. It can be anything. For example, see light bulbs or pull the power cord. The service can be, as a fee, and free.
Let's list the possible services in more detail:
A. Turn on / off hardware:
The engineering composition of the data center is present at the facility 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If necessary, the employee within the application from the Client can turn on, turn off, reboot the equipment without leaving the Client’s representative in the data center. Thus, this service allows you to save on the time unavailability of a particular equipment, as well as the lack of engineering staff in the workplace. The “Equipment On / Off” service covers all equipment.
B. Cross / Patch Connection:
Work on the modernization, changing the connection equipment. Connect (cross-connect) equipment with patch cords within the rack.
C. Replacing components on equipment:
Works on installing and removing interface cards, replacing cassettes and other media for archiving data, replacing “hot components” of equipment (hot-spot HDD, power units, cooler fans) that do not require, according to the technical instructions of the equipment manufacturer, power outages without the need to disassemble the equipment.
D. Technical support:
Work on the visual monitoring of health, providing visual confirmation when providing remote technical support, assistance in disassembling and unpacking equipment.
This is a service for installing and configuring a video surveillance system (IOD) for continuous video monitoring of the Client’s equipment in real time. Recording can be carried out on the customer’s equipment, as well as centrally in the data center. The service is aimed at video recording of events with client racks.
This is a service to install or configure access control systems (ACS) on a rack with equipment. Further, its maintenance, logging and access control.
Possible functionality:
This service is an organization of the physical isolation of the racks inside the common machine room. The grille is installed from the concrete floor to the concrete ceiling. Electronic locks with contactless cards or coded mechanical built-in locks can be installed. The doors to the isolated zone can be made in the form of a sliding grille or rolling shutters.
This service consists in renting a room to accommodate the Customer’s staff in the data center. Due to the presence in the data center building, customer engineers can have quick access to the equipment placed in the machine room. The service can be provided as a rental of the whole room, as well as its separate part, depending on the availability of technical capabilities and needs.
The room is equipped with: office furniture, SCS, OVN, ACS, Internet and electricity.
I tried for you to bring information about data center services. Assess and compare them clearly can not. Everyone is free to choose their data center to their requirements. One needs only to place the server and provide him with a communication channel, while others need services to the maximum so as not to contain their staff.
Below are descriptions of data centers that participated in the survey.
** Original Formatting from Data Center representatives saved.
Moscow:
DC "Datacheap" (Datacheap.ru)
DC "BSTelecom" (bstelehouse.ru)
DC "TEL" (hosting.tel.ru)
DC "RackStore" (rackstore.ru)
St. Petersburg:
DC "SPT-DC" (spt.ru)
DC "WestCall" (westcall.ru)
Kazan:
Data Center GAU "IT Park" (dc.itpark-kazan.ru)
PS0: all photos belong to the author of the article, Pogorzhelsky SI. Nowhere, except on Harbrahabr, they were not published.
PS1: comments From Delta LLC, Datacheap.ru.
1. In the table, the cost of placing 1U - we have the price of 1U already includes an unlimited port of 10 Mbps, many of them charge for this separately.
2. We work on a simplified taxation system and the prices are not subject to additional VAT.
3. In the table Stand-by Lease, the stand-by rent includes an unlimited 100 Mbit / s channel and a rack cabinet.
4. In the table Rental of equipment for the provision of service stand / 1U has everything: PDU, AVR, Patch panel, and cabinets also give. KVM can be rented not only for a month, but also for a day for 300 rubles per day.
5.Providing the service of IOD as a service, based on Ivideon.
6. We have the service of providing optics to MSK-IX.
7. Now there is MGTS, recently optics have reached.
8. As for the data center level, we do not reach Tier 3 a bit, we can say that we have 2+
We all someday find ourselves in a situation where we need to place the server equipment not in our server room or on the apartment’s balcony. It's great if you see the difference between the server and the data center, but if you still do not understand, then the article is just for you. This article summarizes the basic requirements for placement in data centers and possible related services.
Most of the data centers were sent a tabular form to fill out, in order to collect information about their services and prices. Information of a purely public nature, of which all were informed. Those who sent, those will be used in the examples. Prices are for the month of October.
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At the very beginning of the migration path to the data center, we determine what we are carrying. This can be either a standalone server (1U) or a rack (~ 48U) with equipment.
1. Accommodation with single-unit equipment or rental of a place in the rack.
For this service, it is enough to know how much space (units) it takes and how many watts is required.
| Cost of placement 1U | |
| DC "IT Park" | 2950 |
| DC "SPT" | 1000 |
| DC "Datacheap" | 1500 |
| DC "WestCall" | 3000 |
| DC "BSTelecom" | 2650 |
| DC "TEL" | 1500 |
| DC "RackStore" | 2450 |
| * Usually 1U - allocated up to 300W. | |
2. Accommodation rack / mi.
Consider what we need at the time of the move from the data center. Suppose you only have equipment and patch cables.
In this case, we will need to rent services:
-stands with electricity (kW)
-stand (cabinet)
-PDU
-AVR
Service Fixed-place - is the placement of rack cabinets dimensions not exceeding some dimensions in width and in depth and summing a certain number of kilowatts. The sizes can be completely different, but usually they do not exceed 600x1100mm. All sizes, which are more than the given example, are considered non-standard and in many data centers the placement of those is impossible.
PDU rental service - Power Distribution Device or, even simpler, a unit with sockets for the equipment being placed. For example, APC AP8853. Mounted in a rack cabinet. Required item. There are managed and not managed. They can connect the monitoring system and see the current status of the power supply. Monitoring is useful for optimizing power consumption equipment.
The service provision for rent AVR - Power supply switching system. It is used when it is necessary to combine the backup power line and the main one in the equipment with one power supply unit.
Service provision for rent Racks (wardrobe) - the usual rack-mounted wardrobe. There may be any height, it all depends on the manufacturer. Manufacturer's example - MINKELS (standard Google racks).
In some data centers, it is possible to rent only a rack, without paying for anything else. This is applicable when, for example, you have a high-end storage system (it goes in your rack) or you use your racks to save on data center services.
It is important to pay attention to the required number of kilowatts. Those. if you count on growth in a budget data center, it will often be impossible to realize this. Only some data centers can provide from 8kW per rack. On average, they give 4-5kW per stand-up space. Calculations of food consumption are carried out individually. Proper PDU will help you save.
| Rack rental | ||||||||
| 3 kW | 4kw | 5 kW | 6 kW | 7 kW | 8kW | 9kW | 10kw | |
| DC "IT Park" | 45,000 | 45,000 | 50,000 | 55,000 | 60,000 | 65,000 | 70,000 | 75,000 |
| DC "SPT" | 10,000 | 15,000 | ||||||
| DC "Datacheap" | 40,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 | 43,000 | 46,000 | |||
| DC "WestCall" | 32,000 | 39,000 | 46,000 | 53,000 | 6000 | |||
| DC "BSTelecom" | upon request | upon request | 55,000 | 61000 | 67,000 | 74000 | 80,000 | 86,000 |
| DC "TEL" | 49,000 | 79,000 | ||||||
| DC "RackStore" | 40,000 | 60,000 | ||||||
| * All prices are in rubles. Specify the composition of the bench place at the company. | ||||||||
| Rental of equipment for the provision of services stand / 1U | |||||
| Rack cabinet | PDU | AVR | Patch panel | KVM | |
| DC "IT Park" | there is | there is | ip-kvm, hourly. 100r / h | ||
| DC "SPT" | included in the base price | included in the base price | |||
| DC "Datacheap" | 5000r | ||||
| DC "WestCall" | |||||
| DC "BSTelecom" | upon request | free | free | free | 300/700 |
| DC "TEL" | on | On | on | on | |
| DC "RackStore" | 550 | ||||
3. Services in the data center.
Having placed in a data center, we will need various services, among which there are mandatory with possible restrictions, and less in demand. Let's look at them.
3.1. Required services:
3.1.1. Round-the-clock access.
It is important that access to equipment is even at night. Often, to get into the machine room, the presence of an employee of the DC is required. It should think about this in advance.
3.1.2. Kitchen / dining room 24 * 7.
Work is work, but there is something you need, even during the deadline. This requirement is applicable in order to eat not above the server, and not far from the machine, without leaving the data center.
3.1.3. Room assembly / disassembly equipment.
Sometimes it takes a long time to assemble a server or unpack equipment, etc. For this there is a room where you can do dirty work in a convenient place.
3.1.4. Warehouse in the data center.
Often the equipment comes to the data center without engineers or there is so much of it that you can’t assemble it in a working day. In such cases, it is required to store the equipment for a long time or for a long time, if it is, for example, spare parts.
3.1.5. “Physical support” or remote hands by data center employees.
KVM may not always help, and a specialist’s departure to the data center may not be possible. For this there is a support on duty from the data center. It can be anything. For example, see light bulbs or pull the power cord. The service can be, as a fee, and free.
Let's list the possible services in more detail:
A. Turn on / off hardware:
The engineering composition of the data center is present at the facility 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If necessary, the employee within the application from the Client can turn on, turn off, reboot the equipment without leaving the Client’s representative in the data center. Thus, this service allows you to save on the time unavailability of a particular equipment, as well as the lack of engineering staff in the workplace. The “Equipment On / Off” service covers all equipment.
B. Cross / Patch Connection:
Work on the modernization, changing the connection equipment. Connect (cross-connect) equipment with patch cords within the rack.
C. Replacing components on equipment:
Works on installing and removing interface cards, replacing cassettes and other media for archiving data, replacing “hot components” of equipment (hot-spot HDD, power units, cooler fans) that do not require, according to the technical instructions of the equipment manufacturer, power outages without the need to disassemble the equipment.
D. Technical support:
Work on the visual monitoring of health, providing visual confirmation when providing remote technical support, assistance in disassembling and unpacking equipment.
| DC "IT Park" | DC "SPT" | DC "Datacheap" | DC "WestCall" | DC "BSTelecom" | DC "TEL" | DC "RackStore" |
| The provision of the service "physical support | ||||||
| Yes | ||||||
| Daily access to machine room equipment | ||||||
| Yes | ||||||
| *** | is free | by agreement | is free | |||
| Food consumption area (kitchen) available to all customers | ||||||
| Yes | ||||||
| Equipment assembly / disassembly room | ||||||
| Yes | ||||||
| Warehouse in the data center | ||||||
| Yes | not | |||||
| * DC "TEL" - storage of spare parts with dimensions up to 400 * 400 * 400 - unlimited, free ** DC "IT Park" - 500 rubles / day per cubic meter of equipment *** DC "IT Park" - Up to 3 hours per month for free, then 200r / hour | ||||||
3.2. Not the most obligatory services, but the presence of which is sometimes critical:
3.2.1. Provision of the WHS service as a service.
This is a service for installing and configuring a video surveillance system (IOD) for continuous video monitoring of the Client’s equipment in real time. Recording can be carried out on the customer’s equipment, as well as centrally in the data center. The service is aimed at video recording of events with client racks.
3.2.2. The provision of access services for the rack, without additional. equipment, as a service.
This is a service to install or configure access control systems (ACS) on a rack with equipment. Further, its maintenance, logging and access control.
Possible functionality:
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3.2.3. Ability to organize the fence around the racks.
This service is an organization of the physical isolation of the racks inside the common machine room. The grille is installed from the concrete floor to the concrete ceiling. Electronic locks with contactless cards or coded mechanical built-in locks can be installed. The doors to the isolated zone can be made in the form of a sliding grille or rolling shutters.
3.2.4. Rental of premises for permanent stay of the Customer’s staff in the data center.
This service consists in renting a room to accommodate the Customer’s staff in the data center. Due to the presence in the data center building, customer engineers can have quick access to the equipment placed in the machine room. The service can be provided as a rental of the whole room, as well as its separate part, depending on the availability of technical capabilities and needs.
The room is equipped with: office furniture, SCS, OVN, ACS, Internet and electricity.
| DC IT Park | DC "SPT" | DC "Datacheap" | DC "WestCall" | DC "BSTelecom" | DC "TEL" | DC "RackStore" |
| Provision of IOD service as a service | ||||||
| Yes | not | not | Yes | Yes | not | not |
| The provision of access services for the rack, without additional. equipment as a service | ||||||
| Yes | not | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | not |
| Ability to organize a fence around racks | ||||||
| Yes | not | Yes | Yes | Yes | not | not |
| Rental of premises for permanent stay of the Customer’s staff in the data center | ||||||
| Yes | not | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | not |
4. Results.
I tried for you to bring information about data center services. Assess and compare them clearly can not. Everyone is free to choose their data center to their requirements. One needs only to place the server and provide him with a communication channel, while others need services to the maximum so as not to contain their staff.
Below are descriptions of data centers that participated in the survey.
** Original Formatting from Data Center representatives saved.
Moscow:
DC "Datacheap" (Datacheap.ru)
Hidden text
DC "BSTelecom" (bstelehouse.ru)
Hidden text
DC "TEL" (hosting.tel.ru)
Hidden text
DC "RackStore" (rackstore.ru)
Hidden text
St. Petersburg:
DC "SPT-DC" (spt.ru)
Hidden text
DC "WestCall" (westcall.ru)
Hidden text
Kazan:
Data Center GAU "IT Park" (dc.itpark-kazan.ru)
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PS0: all photos belong to the author of the article, Pogorzhelsky SI. Nowhere, except on Harbrahabr, they were not published.
PS1: comments From Delta LLC, Datacheap.ru.
1. In the table, the cost of placing 1U - we have the price of 1U already includes an unlimited port of 10 Mbps, many of them charge for this separately.
2. We work on a simplified taxation system and the prices are not subject to additional VAT.
3. In the table Stand-by Lease, the stand-by rent includes an unlimited 100 Mbit / s channel and a rack cabinet.
4. In the table Rental of equipment for the provision of service stand / 1U has everything: PDU, AVR, Patch panel, and cabinets also give. KVM can be rented not only for a month, but also for a day for 300 rubles per day.
5.Providing the service of IOD as a service, based on Ivideon.
6. We have the service of providing optics to MSK-IX.
7. Now there is MGTS, recently optics have reached.
8. As for the data center level, we do not reach Tier 3 a bit, we can say that we have 2+
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/246419/
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