29 September 2017

Pentair says the Schroff ServCite has been developed specifically to meet the stringent requirements of the telecoms industry for shock and vibration resistance, redundancy and reliable cooling capacity. 

The rack is based on the Open Compute Project concept, an industry-wide initiative for defining the specifications and designs for the most energy efficient and economical data centre possible.

It can accommodate ToR switches, a pluggable power supply unit, a rack agent, as well as shelves for CPU and memory plug-in units (also known as compute and storage ‘sleds’).

Pentair says 17 storage sleds, with the ability to hold up to 24 hard drives with up to 8TB of capacity, can be housed in one standard ServCite.

It adds that if the rack is equipped exclusively with compute sleds, 34 units can fit.

All compute sleds can be equipped with two half SSI server main boards, each with two bases, making it possible to install up to 136 Xeon processors in the rack, says the firm.

Heat is dissipated from the components as a result of straight airflow from front to rear and optional back door cooling, thus reducing the amount of space needed for redirecting air in the system.

Furthermore, the company says that while every component requires redundant implementation in conventional systems such as AdvancedTCA, storage and data processing are installed in a ServCite rack with excess capacity of just 10 per cent.

If a hard drive, processor or even a sled fails, the task is simply transferred to another server.