Why does the data center need a set of infrastructure visual management system

2022 As the first year of digital economy , stay “ New infrastructure ” Under the background ,“ wisdom +” The project is in full swing , Data centers have become transportation 、 Energy is as important as economic infrastructure .

But data center is different from other industries with certain particularity , Need operation and maintenance personnel 7*24 Hours of support , This means that operation and maintenance personnel are required to work efficiently , So that the data center can develop smoothly . Many enterprises choose to use software management tools to improve work efficiency , Such as moving ring 、 Network management 、ITSM etc. , besides , I think what the data center needs more urgently is a set of network infrastructure visualization system .

Then network infrastructure visualization system , What value can it bring to the operation and maintenance work ？

01  Reduce human failures

Generally speaking, the core work goal of the operation and maintenance engineer is to stabilize the operation , The most important thing to achieve stable operation is to eliminate faults and reduce the impact of faults , Two extremes need to be achieved , One is to prevent faults to the greatest extent ; Second, repair the fault as soon as possible , Reduce the impact of failure . Therefore, we have to go deep into the main reasons for the operation and maintenance failure of the data center , Only by knowing the reason can we really prevent the trouble before it happens .

according to 2022 year CDCC" China financial industry data center operation and Maintenance Management Development Forum " Data statistics ,“ Personnel misoperation ” It is the main reason for the operation and maintenance failure of data center infrastructure . I think it causes “ Personnel misoperation ” There are several factors :

1. People frequently enter and leave the data center

2. The post mobility of operation and maintenance engineer is large

3. The technical ability of some personnel fails to meet the post demand

When the above problems are foreseen, the network infrastructure visualization system , Will be solved . The data is shown in the figure above , Accurately reflect the equipment position in the form of visualization 、 Connection relationship 、 Which distribution frames pass through the middle , Configuration information of corresponding equipment 、IP Address 、 Manufacturer maintenance information, etc , Sitting in front of the computer can clearly know the internal situation of each data center , Reduce frequent personnel access . And embedded process work order logic , Assist enterprises to establish operation and maintenance management system , So as to achieve , Don't mess in unless necessary , Don't move without approval , Greatly avoid faults caused by personnel misoperation .

Also because of the above visual data , Established a plan 、 Reasonable operation and maintenance system , The new operation and maintenance engineer can also take over quickly , Reduce the loss of personnel mobility to the data center .

More Than This , Such as Neville nVisual Network infrastructure visual management system , Also embed the contents of the equipment manual into the equipment , Associate business and equipment one by one , Reduce the wrong cable connection of equipment caused by uneven quality of operation and maintenance personnel 、 Plug and unplug jumpers at will , And then avoid packet loss caused by wrong cable selection 、 Affect the transmission rate and other issues , It can also avoid the probability of key business interruption caused by misoperation . Even if something goes wrong , Can be realized “ Earlier discovery 、 Alarm earlier ”.

 

02  Improve safety and reliability

Actually “ Reduce human failures ” It is a means to improve safety and reliability , But the real network infrastructure visual management system , The function is far from stopping here . still nVisual System , It can be audited through operational behavior 、 Real time monitoring improves the safety and reliability of infrastructure , Combined with the visual tracking function, the link support capability is improved , And there are functions such as automatic coding , In this way, the inconsistency of numbering rules of various departments can be avoided , As a result, other departments or new operation and maintenance engineers cannot understand , Or one cable corresponds to multiple labels .

Standard operation and maintenance system , Standardized process records , It is bound to greatly improve the security and reliability of the data center .

03 Economic value -- Cost saving and efficiency creating

3.1 Abridged edition

Save construction cost

Clear management records of assets , It can make the best use of network infrastructure resources , Compared with the traditional form of recording , At least about 20% Our assets are idle .

Save procurement costs

Empathy , Record the termination clearly , Save device ports and jumpers , So as to remove the equipment from the rack , Save equipment and other procurement costs .

Save time and cost

The current network infrastructure management mode all depends on manpower , In case of failure or need to access data 、 New tasks, etc , All need human access , time-consuming , It is also prone to human error , After system intervention , Algorithm replaces manual , Improve planning 、 Obstacle removal 、 Query waiting time cost .

Save business costs caused by failures

Over time , Network infrastructure and other resource termination conditions will change , If there is no accurate record , In case of failure , The troubleshooting time is greatly increased , The business carried is interrupted , The loss is incalculable .

Save labor costs

With clear basic data , In daily maintenance, there is no need for a lot of manpower to support the demand , Can handle more meaningful work .

Save maintenance costs

Traditionally, records are based on tables , The record includes the link connection 、IP Address 、 Tags, etc. , The intervention of management tools greatly reduces the cost of these daily maintenance , All paper materials can be managed systematically , Avoid repetitive work 、 untraceable , It also saves time for making reports , Key links can also provide key support .

3.2 Create efficiency

I think data center managers should first know what resources they have , Scattered resources 、 Information such as termination , In order to realize the refined management of the data center , The network infrastructure management platform can clearly calculate the real-time asset data . Find out where you are , Recycle unused resources , Service the business 、 Create value for the enterprise again .

04 ROI analysis

Words alone are no proof , Case data to speak , Beijing XX Take the institute project as an example .

4.1 Case background

2020 year 11 The project will be implemented in January , purchase 1000 node . total 26 Cabinet , Where the server 60 Yu Tai , Switch 30 Yu Tai , Safety equipment 20 Yu Tai , Distribution frame 260 More than a .

The main problem ：

      Mostly old equipment , Cables are miscellaneous ;

      There are many paper documents of equipment with a long history ;

      There is no dumb resource management tool ;

      It takes a lot of manpower , The high cost of .

4.2 Use pre and post analysis

Original state ：

According to the project statistics of the Academy of forestry , Senior operation and maintenance engineer 15%-20% All the time is spent searching for documents 、 Check botnet and other inefficient work . The annual downtime of the equipment is about 4% about .

present situation ：

• Because the space of the computer room can be reasonably planned （ Such as cabinet location 、U I'm waiting for you ） It saves some space resources , As the business expands , Academy of forestry projects have increased 30% Number of cabinets .

• According to the financial accounting at the end of the year, the energy consumption cost 、 Cost of purchasing new equipment 、 The average cost of manpower has decreased .

• With the help of nVisual Infrastructure management tools , The work efficiency of operation and maintenance engineers has been greatly improved , Although the business has expanded , But there is no new operation and maintenance engineer .

• Engineer feedback , Some asset statistics can be automatically generated by the system , save 40% Report making time .

4.3 Data analysis

The formula ： Return on investment ROI=(2 Save money every year ÷2 Annual investment expenses )*100%

IT The budget 50 Ten thousand yuan / year Inefficient working time cost 5% nVisual At least improve 2% above （1 Ten thousand yuan / Annual estimates ）

Annual downtime 4% Downtime loss MTTR 2 Ten thousand yuan / Hours nVisual Reduce 20% Downtime （ Value according to 20 Ten thousand yuan ）

The expansion of the machine room in the original mode should add at least 3 people （5000 element / Monthly wages , expect 18 Ten thousand yuan ）

Intuitive purchase costs （ Reduce the purchase of servers and other equipment ） After financial accounting , Reduce 20%（ according to 5 Ten thousand yuan ）

2 Total annual savings ：（1+20+18+5）*2=88 Ten thousand yuan

ROI=88÷16*100%

Return on investment ：550%

05 summary

 

 

Industry authoritative official account 、 Experts have paid attention to the most basic network infrastructure , In Baidu search , There are more than 35 million visual terms for network infrastructure , Leading industry benchmarks have also established the visualization system of network infrastructure as early as possible , The above fully proves that the data center industry has noticed the importance of network infrastructure management , Yes, it can really be used by operation and maintenance engineers , It can really realize the detailed management of the data center 、 Build Standards 、 A system that standardizes the operation and maintenance system , Who doesn't ？

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