Data Centre

Data Centre – Slough, UK

 

FACILITY

• Data Centre floor space is approximately 5,000 square meters of raised floor
• Site is manned 24x7x365 with Rackspace Operations personnel
• OEM service/maintenance contracts on all facility infrastructure systems
• SSAE16 compliant

 

SECURITY

• Physical access to devices within Rackspace data centres is restricted to authorized Rackspace personnel
• Card reader and biometric access required to enter facility
• Card reader access required to enter data centre floor
• Security cameras recorded by digital video recorder
• Bomb proof film installed behind all windowed areas
• Fully fenced perimeter

 

POWER

• 100% renewable energy
• Facility rated at 1.75kW per square meter or 3.5kW per rack
• Two separate 15 MVA utility feeds provide power to the DC

 

 

 UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply)

• Four 1,200 kW Chloride UPS Net90 Clusters (N+1 configuration), expandable to 1,600 kW per Cluster 
• Two 1,000 kW Chloride UPS Trinergy Clusters (modular N+1 configuration), expandable to 1,600 kW per Cluster 
• 78 UPS power distribution panels 
• UPS-fed panels are fully redundant
• UPS provides instantaneous conditioned power for facilities until generator synchronization; transfer of power is automatic 
• 10 minutes battery life at peak load 

 

GENERATOR

• Six 2.25 MVA AVK diesel generators (N+1 configuration), expandable to eight
• Generators activate and fully synchronize within 60 seconds
• Each generator has its own supply system with a total of 60,000 litres on site
• Fuel suppliers under contract to deliver fuel within 4 hours
• 36-hour on site fuel capacity under full load

 

HVAC

• 1,461,843 m³/h of cooling capacity
• One Hundred and Four CRACs computer room air handling units (N+25% configuration)
• Seven 1,500 kW RC Group centrifugal chillers w/VSD (N+1 configuration), expandable to eight
• Six chilled water loop pumps, and condenser water loop pumps (N+1 configuration)

 

FIRE PROTECTION

• Early Smoke Detection (VESDA)
• Dry pipe pre-action fire suppression system

 

FACILITY MONITORING

• NARC – Network monitoring software
• Trend Facility Monitoring System (BMS)
• C-Matic Power Management System allows real time monitoring and trending of power utilisation

 

 

CUSTOMER ACCESS

• Customers retain administrative control of their leased servers.
• Rackspace retains control of dedicated networking hardware such as firewalls and load balancers
• Console level access is provided via Terminal Services of SSH over VPN, depending upon platform

 

BACKUP AND RECOVERY

• Fully managed backup to centralized storage is available; offsite tape rotation is optional

 

NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

• Redundant Cisco 3-tier LAN Architecture

 

PHYSICAL CONNECTIVITY

• Multiple fibre carriers
• Copper and fibre installed and terminated to onsite demarcation

 

TRANSIT

• Multiple Tier-1 Service Providers
• 10-Gigabit Ethernet per carrier (multiple gigabits of total
• bandwidth available)

 

ROUTING

• Redundant Cisco 6500 Series and ASR 9000 Series Switches for edge and core routing
• Internap FCP route optimization

 

SWITCHING

• Cisco 3550/3750/4948 Series Switches for aggregation
• Cisco 2950/2960/2970 Series Switches for distribution