zte usapphire micromodular data center mdc8300 product

ZTE USapphire Micromodular

Data Center MDC8300

Product Description

ZTE USapphire Micromodular Data Center MDC8300 Product Description

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ZTE USapphire Micromodular Data Center MDC8300

Product Description

Version Date Author Reviewer Notes

V1.0 2015/1/26 ZTE Not open to the third party

V2.0 2016/5/31 Zhang Tingjian Update

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2 ZTE Confidential & Proprietary

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Product Overview .............................................................................................. 4

2 Product Highlights ............................................................................................ 5

2.1 Reducing the Deployment Period ......................................................................... 5

2.2 Reducing Operation Expenses............................................................................. 5

2.3 Safety .................................................................................................................. 6

2.4 Reliability ............................................................................................................. 6

3 System Structure ............................................................................................... 6

3.1 Overview .............................................................................................................. 6

3.2 Rack and Structure System ................................................................................. 8

3.2.1 Server Rack ......................................................................................................... 8

3.2.2 Base Design ........................................................................................................ 9

3.3 Electrical .............................................................................................................. 9

3.4 Cooling .............................................................................................................. 10

3.5 Management and Control System ...................................................................... 11

3.6 Technical Specifications ..................................................................................... 12

4 System Maintenance Introduction ................................................................. 13

4.1 Structure Maintenance ....................................................................................... 13

4.2 Electrics Maintenance ........................................................................................ 13

4.3 System Installation ............................................................................................. 13

5 Glossary ........................................................................................................... 14



FIGURES

Figure 1-1 ZTE USapphire MDC8300 Data Center ............................................................. 4

Figure 3-1 MDC8300 Layout (12 racks) .............................................................................. 7



Figure 3-4 Base combination design ................................................................................... 9

Figure 3-5 Electrical Diagram of MDC8300 ........................................................................10

Figure 3-6 Cooling System of ZTE USapphire MDC8300 ..................................................10

Figure 3-3 iDCIM System .....................................................................................................11

TABLES

Table 3-1 Product Specifications........................................................................................12

Table 5-1 Glossary ............................................................................................................14



1 Product Overview

The traditional data center construction involving many departments and providing

complex cooperation interface is very difficult to assure the construction process and

quality. Meanwhile, the construction leads to enormous investment and long cycle in the

whole process. The traditional data center consumes lot of energy and its unreasonable

air conditioning deployment with lower density leads to high PUE value and operation

cost. ZTE commits to create an energy-saving modular data center and solve the

problems confronted in constructing the traditional construction through factory

manufacturing, precise air supply and high density design. ZTE USapphire MDC8300

integrates the traditional rack, wiring, power distribution, management, control, lighting

system into a unified product, so that customers don't have to do engineering

management independently which is completed in factory.

Figure 1-1 ZTE USapphire MDC8300 Data Center

The MDC8300 product takes full advantages of the modular design to realize the fast

and flexible deployment, which not only reduces the construction cost significantly, but

also greatly shorten the construction period of the data center to 8-12 weeks. The



construction of MDC8300 has no special requirements on space and environment and

do not need to raise the floor or decorate the room specially.

The MDC8300 improves the overall efficiency, including the efficiency of IT equipment

and the energy utilization efficiency; it has advanced cold/hot aisle isolation technology to

support water cooling and refrigerant cooling, so as to realize a green data center.

2 Product Highlights

2.1 Reducing the Deployment Period

The MDC8300 supports reducing the construction cost, period, and complexity, and

reducing the equipment maintenance workload. The whole equipment is prefabricated in

factories. Operators only need to install and debug the equipment on site, and therefore

can save a lot of time and fund, and quickly respond to dynamic service requirements.

The new DC, with its integrated, module-based, and expandable features, revolutionarily

changes the DC construction model and greatly improves the DC construction efficiency.

2.2 Reducing Operation Expenses

In a traditional DC, most energy is consumed for cooling the environment. In contrast, the

MDC8300 uses the precise air supply and cold/hot aisle isolation technologies to have

the cold air exchange heat especially with servers instead of the environment. Compared

with the traditional DC, the energy consumed can be saved by 30%–50%. With the

efficient blade solution and the advanced air conditioner cooling technology, the

MDC8300 can use more energy on computing rather than cooling or power conversion,

so that the PUE is greatly reduced to less than 1.7.



2.3 Safety

The safety factor is fully considered in the design of the MDC8300. The access control

and safety monitoring design effectively avoids incorrect operations performed by people

who are not the equipment room administrator.

2.4 Reliability

Adopting the tier-3 design solution, the MDC8300 provides excellent reliability. It

supports the two-way power distribution system and redundant power supply system to

greatly increase the MBFT of the entire system.

3 System Structure

3.1 Overview

ZTE USapphire MDC8300 is composed of two rows (A and B) of racks. The two rows of

racks are placed face-to-face with a 1200mm wide aisle in the middle. The maximum IT

load of each cabinet is 4.5 KW. The height of the cabinet can be customized. The end of

A and B rows are 1200mm width power distribution cabinet and 1200mm width

management cabinet. Two rows of racks face each other with an aisle of 1,200 mm wide

in the middle as cold aisle. The space under anti-static floor is used as cold air supply

plenum chamber. On both ends of the aisle, a 1200mm width channel double-open door

is mounted. These double-open doors have transparent toughened glass in the middle,

so the equipment in the cold aisle can be seen from outside. Transparent top windows

are set above the aisle. The ceiling and doors keep the cold aisle closed tightly. At the

top of the module, cable slots are set longitudinally for power tray and network tray.

MDC8300 supports equipotential bonding of metallic conductors such as cabinetsand

precision power distribution cabinets. Each cabinet has two connecting conductors with

different lengths to connect with the nearby equipotential bonding grid.



Figure 3-1 MDC8300 Layout (12 racks)

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3.2 Rack and Structure System

3.2.1 Server Rack

1. Features of the server rack

Rack size: 600mm (W) * 1200mm (D) * 2000mm (H)/2200mm

The rack has the flexible power supply solution. PDU is installed at the side of the rack,

and the cabling boxes can be configured in multiple ways for choice.

The rack can provide such intelligent management systems as temperature/humidity

management and control, electronic door and lock, vibration indication, and power

management and control.

The rack system has the perfect quake-proof and shock-absorption countermeasure.

The shock-absorption and quake-proof components are optional to realize the internal

protection of the equipment in the rack.

2. Rack framework

The framework is the major module of the frame subsystem, which is also the framework

of the whole rack system and the core of connecting various subsystems an modules.

The framework uses the welding structure. The welding positioning is designed between

structures to ensure the positioning precision and make the welding operation

convenient.

The front/rear frame consists of the welded uprights, lintel, beam, and fixed blocks. The

uprights are the major components in the front/rear frames. The design of the section

shape of the uprights plays a key role in the stiffness of the whole machine. The upright

design is the bending structure with 2mm of cold-roll steel sheet. The section structure is

shown in the following figure. The beam and lintel are constructed with sheet metal

punching and bending. The fixed block is the precise welding component.



3.2.2 Base Design

ZTE’s standard MDC product is designed with base so that the water pipes can be

designed and installed under the base.

The base uses the full LCL design, which is pre-manufactured in the factory and

assembled on the site. The base uses the bent 3mm-thick sheet metal or angle iron

structure. Each base keeps the same width and depth at that of the rack body lay over

the base. It is for the convenience of layout and maintenance of the internal channel.

Figure 3-4 Base combination design

3.3 Electrical

Supporting the precision power distribution, power distribution cabinets within a module

distribute the electricity to rack PDUs of each cabinet through power distribution switches

and cables. The power distribution cabinet is equipped with the surge protector,

intelligent electric meter, and alarm device, and supports including the operation data

(including voltage, current, power, power factor, harmonic wave) collected by the electric

meter in the light current monitoring system to realize the 7 × 24 uninterrupted

monitoring.

The dual power distribution array cabinets provide UPS electricity for two intelligent

PDUs inside cabinets.



Figure 3-5 Electrical Diagram of MDC8300

3.4 Cooling

The cooling of cabinets in a modular DC is supported by precision air-conditioning

outside the MDC and adopts cold aisle containment, under floor air supply, upper-return.

To reduce air resistence, the space under anti-static raised floor is used as air supply

plenum chamber. The data center air flow distribution shows that this can effectively

avoid the cold and hot air mixing and cold air short cut issue in traditional DC, and can

also avoid the issue of no enough cooling capacity for the device near cabinet top due to

pressure drop for the far-end cabinet which can ultimately cause partial hot spot issue.

Figure 3-6 Cooling System of ZTE USapphire MDC8300



3.5 Management and Control System

The management and control system, ZXCLOUD iDCIM, supports the environment

detection equipment, different kinds of power equipment, and the security system.

Detection targets of subsystems include: (1) power detection: power distribution cabinets,

iPDU, UPS systems, and storage batteries, (2) environment detection: air conditioners,

temperature and humidity, water leakage, and lightning protection, (3) security detection:

access control, video, fire protection, anti-theft, and platform alarm. The system also

monitors the environment temperature to control the switching between the water cooling

system and natural air cooling system.

Figure 3-3 iDCIM System

ZXCLOUD iDCIM system supports abundant interfaces, multiple alarm functions, open

protocol interfaces, large-capacity data collection and storage, and intelligent data

analysis technology. The power consumption management system manages and

records the electricity consumed by the whole area served by a rack and supports the

external network access. The detection and monitoring of the temperature, humidity,

moisture, and smoke are integrated within the alarm system which supports the intrusion

detection function to realize the unified management and remote monitoring. For

example, the fire alarm system, composed by an early-stage smoke detector and fire

suppression system, can identify the fire at an early stage and immediately take



emergency measures. The micromodule is also equipped with the emergency power

cut-off device to ensure the safety of human and equipment.

3.6 Technical Specifications

Table 3-1 Product Specifications

Specifications ZTE USapphire MDC 8300

Size

Width: 3600mm

Total Height (includes base): 3100mm/3300mm

Height of base: 700mm

Floor load bearing

requirement 600 kg/m

2

Power supply mode 380 VAC three-phase 1+1 input 50 Hz

Output mode 220 VAC single-phase 1+1 output

Single-cabinet PDU

output rows Two per rack

Typical single-cabinet

power 4.5KW

Cooling mode Precision AC air supply and cold aisle containment

Cabinet dimension

Width: 600mm

Depth: 1200mm.

Height: 2000mm/2200mm

Available cabinet height 42U, 47U

Cabinet quantity Up to 36 and customized.

Working temperature 0—45℃



4 System Maintenance Introduction

4.1 Structure Maintenance

Through the front door of a MDC, equipment can be carried in/out for repair. Each

cabinet can be opened from the back for maintenance. The maintenance of any cabinet

has no impact on other cabinets.

4.2 Electrics Maintenance

The power distribution cabinet is equipped with a main circuit breaker and a surge

protector to effectively ensure the normal running of the main circuit. The power is

distributed to each cabinet separately, so the power distribution fault of a cabinet has no

impact on other cabinets.

4.3 System Installation

In the area where the modular DC is to be installed, the floor shall be first leveled and

painted with the anti-static coating. The floor load bearing requirement is 500 kg/m2.

The ideal net ceiling height is 3.65 meters.

Basic installation steps:

1. Install modular chassis system.

2. Install power distribution cabinets.

3. Install racks.

4. Install hot aisle isolation components.

5. Install the wiring slots.

6. Install the strong electricity and weak electricity wires.

7. Turn on the power to cabinets to test the power distribution, voltage, and

switches.



8. Turn on fans and the set to test the heat dissipation device.

9. Test the IT equipment in the module.

5 Glossary

Table 5-1 Glossary

Abbreviations Full Characteristics

AC Alternating Current or Air Conditioner

DCIM Data Center Infrastructure Management

DX Direct Expansion

HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

IDC Internet Data Center

iDCIM Integrated Data Center Infrastructure Management

MDC Micromodular Data Center

MGT Management and Control Rack

PDR Power Distribution Rack

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