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Cisco Data Center Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Call (888) 233-6471.PBM IT Data Center Solutions are Cisco Gold Partner certified. Our staff is uniquely qualified to handle your data center needs such as data backup, data recovery, data storage, fiber channel, fiber channel over Ethernet, FCoE, iSCSI, network attached storage, NAS, remote backup, storage area networks, SAN, SAN management, SAN storage, servers, and storage systems. Q. Do all companies manage their own equipment in a data center? A. No. The management of IT and data center facilities are often outsourced to third party companies that specialize in the monitoring, maintenance and remediation of systems and facilities on a shared services basis. How exhaust air is returned to the cooling units within the data center is as important a consideration as the distribution of cool air to the servers. Hot aisle and cold aisle techniques must be extended to include evaluation of airflow dynamics. At higher power densities the amount of space required to house cooling equipment will overtake the number of cabinets. Alternate approaches, or a reduction in the amount of equipment housed in each cabinet, must be considered. Raise the temperature of the data center to around 24 degrees Celsius, while ensuring that all equipment is certified at the new temperature. This will reduce the level of cooling required and, thus, the energy bill. Most line of business managers take for granted 100 percent IT up time, instant access to trained support personnel, uninterrupted access to data, and are dependent on top-flight management of IT assets in data centers. The usual goal of virtualization is to centralize administrative tasks while improving scalability and work loads. Since virtualization makes it easy to set up new virtual servers, you may end up with a lot of servers to manage. Each server needs to be managed just as if it was a physical server. Keeping track of where everything — and how your virtual resources are using physical resources — is vital, so shop for solutions that have easy-to-use tools that help you monitor and measure use. Many IT departments encourage users to save critical data to available network servers under the control of enterprise software. This policy, in most cases, is not successful, since users store data locally, especially mobile users who are seldom connected to a network. The Cisco Unified Computing System enables more dynamic and agile data centers, in which server identity (MAC addresses, worldwide names [WWNs], firmware and BIOS revisions, network and storage connectivity profiles and policies, etc.) can be dynamically provisioned or migrated to any physical server within the system. Building green IT systems do come with an added cost. These systems do need to take into account the overall short and long term sustainability, the total cost of ownership and the costs of safe recycling and disposal. But when used with efficient and effective policies, the return on investment can be much greater for the organization, employees and the community. High availability is a system design protocol and associated implementation that ensures a certain degree of operational continuity during a given measurement period. The Cisco Nexus 1000V provides real-time coordinated configuration of network and security services and maintains a virtual machine-centric management model, enabling the server administrator to increase both efficiency and flexibility. |