Heating enterprises belong to traditional industries, and many enterprises do not know much about the IT field. After all, every other line is like a mountain. In 2015, the National People's Congress put forward the "Internet" plan for the first time. Traditional enterprises of all sizes in China have responded to the call and joined the "Internet" family. For heating enterprises, the first step to realize their own informatization scheme is the construction of network and hardware platform. Faced with such a choice, enterprises are often confused. Now Tengyou Bian Xiao will give you a comparison between the self built machine room and the cloud server, and the leased construction scheme, hoping to give enterprises some reference:

ECS lease

The enterprise computer room is the center of the information system. Only by building a highly available overall computer room environment can the software, hardware and data of the system be protected from interference from external factors and the impact of environmental factors on the information system be eliminated. In order to ensure a stable environment and provide better services, it is necessary to establish an enterprise's own computer room with a safe operating environment, security guarantees and professional maintenance. Only in this way can the normal operation and efficient service of the company be guaranteed. The following small series lists the hardware and environment that need to be prepared for the self built computer room:

1、 What needs to be prepared for self built machine rooms?

The machine room should be located in the center of the entire office area, because overall, the wiring from this location to each seat can play the highest efficiency. However, the computer room cannot coexist with the office area, because the computer room not only needs a space with constant temperature and humidity, but also the noise pollution and electromagnetic radiation from the server are harmful to human health for a long time.

In addition to the general decoration of other areas of the office, it is also necessary to install overhead anti-static floor and suspended ceiling bridge. The best solution is to separate weak current and strong current to avoid mutual interference, which is also convenient for wiring maintenance.

Computer room wiring is an important part of the computer room. Each line is like a blood vessel, constantly outputting the services provided by the information system to the user's computer terminal. We have seen too many spider web like machine room wiring, which has always been a headache for maintenance and troubleshooting. To solve this problem, we should make a reasonable plan from the deployment of the computer room to ensure that the wiring is reasonable and the labels are clear. Any jumper adjustment will not damage the original layout and avoid unreasonable practices such as flying wires, so that it is possible to maintain a clean and orderly wiring environment.

1. Machine room

In terms of cabinets, try to choose big brand cabinets. Although it seems to be just a large container for equipment, as the saying goes, horsepower is well known. A good cabinet will certainly play an important role in the long run. If multiple sets of cabinet equipment need to be built, it is recommended to deploy different types of hardware equipment to different cabinets, because it is not only easy to maintain, but also convenient for multiple server equipment to share a KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) to save cabinet space. In addition, the standard cabinet for U metering must be selected for the cabinet. When installing the snarer equipment and server, the equipment can be fixed on the cabinet through the combined guide rail and cabinet bolt.

2. Cabinet

The machine room is a large radiator, and various equipment can dissipate heat from time to time. In addition, the machine room is a closed space, and radiators need to be deployed. Generally speaking, this refers to air conditioning. Professional machine rooms generally use precision air conditioners to precisely control the temperature and humidity of the entire machine room. Of course, you can also choose more economical ordinary ceiling, wall mounted or vertical air conditioners. It is worth noting that the ceiling type air conditioner must not be installed above the cabinet, because in case of fault leakage, the cabinet below will suffer.

In addition, the machine room should be equipped with professional fire-fighting equipment or carbon dioxide fire extinguishers. Do not use spray fire extinguishers, or it will cause irreparable losses to the hardware equipment.

3. Fire fighting and air conditioning

For the environment of the entire computer room, in addition to arranging daily patrols, if the budget allows, it is recommended to deploy an environmental monitoring system to monitor the working status of the computer room at any time. The specific items to be monitored may include temperature, humidity, water immersion detection, smoke sensing, power off sensing, UPS status monitoring, air conditioning status monitoring, etc. The alarm mode can be ringtone alarm, telephone alarm, email or SMS alarm, etc. In case of problems in the computer room, the corresponding person in charge will be notified as soon as possible so that the problems can be solved as soon as possible.

If the standard of building the machine room at the beginning cannot reach the professional monitoring level, at least one electronic thermometer and hygrometer shall be equipped for regular inspection.

4. Environmental monitoring

The power supply of the computer room is higher than that of the office area, and all hardware equipment needs to be kept running for 24 hours. If the computer room is powered off, it will not only affect the network and platform applications of the entire company, but also cause damage and failure of hardware equipment. Therefore, it is better to deploy uninterruptible power supply equipment inside the computer room so that the system and network can keep normal operation in case of accidental power failure. The specific configuration of UPS should be calculated according to the number and power of servers and network equipment and your estimated operation time. The higher the power and quantity, the longer the power on time will be provided when the power is cut off.

5. UPS power supply

The server is the core of the entire computer room and the carrier of the entire information platform, so the selection of servers is particularly important. When selecting the mode and configuration of the server, we should follow the principles of applicability and scalability, that is, the configuration of the server should not only meet the existing software environment, but also consider future expansion

Although the servers of each brand have high, medium and low configurations for us to choose flexibly, I still recommend enterprises to choose the servers of first tier brands, such as IBM (Lenovo), Dell, Inspur, etc., which have been market tested for years in terms of performance and stability. In addition, it is worth noting that if the standard cabinet has been selected during the construction of the front computer room, the rack server is better than the tower server.

2、 What needs to be prepared for ECS lease?

1. Clarify your needs

Generally, before purchasing an ECS lease, we should first clarify our own needs, that is, what kind of cloud product should we choose. At present, the product categories of the major cloud service providers are very comprehensive, including virtual machine ECS, virtual machine, elastic machine, cloud space, cloud storage, etc. Generally, the products used by our heating enterprises are mainly virtual machine ECS, and I will not repeat the other products here.

The virtual machine is a virtual server built from independent memory, hard disk, bandwidth and other resources divided on the cluster server. It has independent IP and bandwidth. It can install various versions of operating systems and configure various website operating environments according to needs. It has a remote desktop connection, which can be understood as a completely independent server.

2. Select an ECS tenant

At present, domestic cloud service providers are everywhere, and manufacturers from all walks of life have launched their own cloud products. The well-known cloud service providers in China include Alibaba Cloud, Baidu Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and JD Cloud. In addition, the three major operators Unicom, Telecom, and Mobile also have their own market shares. When choosing a cloud brand, we still recommend the top domestic brands, which can not only provide long-term and effective services to the company's platform, but also respond more timely in case of failure.

3、 Comparative advantages between self built machine rooms and ECS rental

1. Advantages of ECS rental:

1) The cost of renting ECS is low. Compared with building a separate computer room and renting a dedicated line to access the Internet, its overall operating cost is greatly reduced. It can save the high cost of special lines and network equipment. It eliminates the need for self built machine rooms, saves various expenses such as space, power, air conditioning, daily maintenance of machine room management, and saves the rental costs of special lines;

2) Strong stability. The computer room provides 365 day round the clock operation services. Professional technicians are responsible for maintaining the network, effectively ensuring the stability and high-speed of the network. The worry of wireless road congestion is good, and the flexibility is good. Users can start business and quickly host network equipment for easy expansion;

3) The firewall with high security and reliable structure can monitor and detect attacks from the network for 7 × 24 hours × 365 days. Monitor the operation of backbone network and equipment;

4) The machine room with superior environment and large scale and capacity. It has many high-speed optical fiber networks or double line networks, such as China Education Network, China Telecom, China Unicom and China Railcom, to truly achieve north-south connectivity. High stability, fast speed, large bandwidth, and 99.9% network smoothness. Continuous power supply ensures two mains power supplies, UPS uninterruptible power supply, backup generator, standard facilities, 24-hour dedicated air conditioning system for machine rooms, stable network bandwidth, constant temperature, dust prevention, fire prevention, moisture prevention, anti-static and other good operating rings.

2. Advantages of self owned computer rooms:

The advantage of self built computer rooms is that the computer rooms are easy to manage, free to use, free to call their own server resources, and easy to call in emergency situations. For example, in case of server failure and configuration, the computer rooms can be restarted and maintained at the first time, and the server or network equipment can be maintained at any time, And it can intuitively know whether the device has faults or other alarm conditions by observing various indicators on the hardware device.

Enterprise self built machine rooms can also flexibly change the network topology, so as to build a concurrency that can run tens of thousands of levels; In addition, the self built computer room ensures the data security to a greater extent. In addition, the maintenance of professionals and regular patrol inspection of the equipment in the computer room make the equipment in the computer room more safe and reliable.

4、 Final conclusion on whether heating enterprises choose to build their own machine rooms or rent cloud servers

Through the introduction and comparison of the above two schemes, we believe that you have a clearer understanding of the two schemes of self built machine rooms and cloud server rental. I also summarized several conclusions for reference:

1. For small and medium-sized heating enterprises that have just started, it is recommended to rent ECS;

According to my experience, there are a lot of affairs in the start-up heating enterprises, such as safety production, pipe network construction, area measurement, government documents, business network construction, etc., which are very important work. At this time, it is more difficult to build a decent computer room, so the most convenient way is to directly choose the cloud server rental scheme, We will plan the construction of the computer room when we have the energy in the future.

2. For enterprises without professional network security administrators, it is recommended to rent ECS;

I mentioned the advantages of self built computer rooms above, but there is a premise that there is a professional network security administrator. If there is no special manager in this area in the enterprise, the management and maintenance work after the self built machine room will become a disaster, and with the passage of time, equipment aging will become frequent accidents, so the security of data will be even more difficult to talk about.

3. For more application platforms and servers, it is recommended to build a computer room by yourself;

The development of modern enterprises can not be separated from network informatization. Many enterprises have a high degree of platformization. They not only have heating charging platforms, but also have production scheduling platforms, customer service platforms, heat exchange station monitoring, remote data transmission, heat network monitoring, financial systems, OA office systems, etc. Some of these platforms need to run in local area networks or dedicated networks, It is reasonable to build an enterprise owned computer room at this time.

4. If the requirements for data security are high, the computer room can be built by itself;

The internal data of each enterprise is very important, especially for heating enterprises, because it involves a large number of data of heat users and owners. Although the current domestic professional cloud service providers have done a good job in data security and confidentiality, they still feel inappropriate for enterprises with high data security requirements, because they do not know heaven, earth, you know, and I know, but have one more cloud service provider. However, it should be noted that if the enterprise does not do enough to protect the security of the computer room, the data might as well be safe on the ECS.

5. For budget requirements, it is recommended to rent ECS;

The internal construction of enterprises cannot be separated from the support of funds, and the informatization construction is no exception. If an enterprise does not have a high budget for information construction, it is recommended to rent an ECS, because the cost of its own computer room is much higher than that of renting an ECS, including site, hardware, personnel maintenance, etc. As far as I know, an enterprise needs 1000-2000 yuan per month to open a dedicated line, and an enterprise level firewall costs at least 10000 yuan, Therefore, ECS rental has absolute advantages in terms of budget.

Zhengzhou Micronet has 12 years of rich IDC (server rental/hosting) experience/cloud computing service provider · IDC operation expert · became the designated service center of Baidu Cloud Henan in 2018. Zhengzhou Micronet is a professional IDC service provider in Zhengzhou, with real 7 * 24 technical support and computer room technology. Telecom, China Unicom (Netcom |), double line, BGP multi line machine rooms are all over the country, providing you with the best cost-effective layout plan!