RFID technology escorts the efficient operation of data centers

The core of the daily operation and maintenance of the data center is to ensure the uninterrupted operation of business systems and make full use of resources at an appropriate cost. Therefore, the management of the IT assets and the effective management of capacity (resources) that carry these services are particularly important. On the other hand, capacity planning and management also directly determine the management level of the data center. However, in the operation and maintenance management of the data center, monitoring and forecasting are not supported by basic data, and it is difficult to maintain asset information, to locate, to inventory, and to manage life cycles, resulting in inaccurate asset information and asset management efficiency. Low, even affecting the healthy operation of business systems.

Use RFID tags to identify network devices, and establish a network device database (including inspection items, inspection methods, inspection cycles, etc. for each device) and personnel information in the background. The inspection personnel link to the mobile terminal of the inspection system, scan the equipment to be inspected through the RFID mobile device, inspect the network equipment one by one according to the inspection items maintained in the background and record the inspection data, and find the problems and hidden dangers in the equipment room And timely processing to ensure the normal and stable operation of the computer room.

The characteristic information of the object to be recognized collected by the radio frequency identification system is usually processed by intermediate software first, or the collected identification information is directly passed through computer information processing technology (such as database technology, etc.) and computer network technology (Intranet & Internet (Technology) to achieve information fusion, sharing, long-distance transmission, etc. directly serve related business application systems, such as RFID data center asset intelligent management system.

The data center asset intelligent management system based on RFID technology will make full use of the advantages of RFID technology for multi-link management and control:

1) Physical asset management issues

目前,有许多类型的资产,所以me belong to different business departments. The information is asymmetric between departments and groups. It is necessary to establish a department-oriented unified computer room physical information management interface to provide information scan code entry, modification, query, recovery and other functions; It is necessary to manage the entire life cycle of the device, record the serial number, name, type, location, department, use and other attributes of the device, standardize the operation of the device on and off the shelf, and record the full path operation information of the device in real time. And connect with the department's existing process platform.

2) Asset inventory management

Too many equipments, too long inventory cycle, and too much workload. Traditional manual recording is difficult to ensure the accuracy of asset inventory. In the asset inventory cycle, it is difficult to ensure that the inventory equipment and the non-inventory equipment have cross-changes, and it is difficult to ensure the effectiveness of the inventory work. For the asset inventory activities that are common in computer rooms, electronic asset inventory methods need to be introduced to solve the common problems of "large workload, low efficiency, and error-prone" in traditional asset inventory, and realize the information management of asset inventory activities.

3) Asset maintenance management

Maintenance personnel need to solve the management of maintenance information for various IT equipment and infrastructure in the computer room, establish and maintain maintenance contracts, and manage related equipment based on the maintenance contract to realize the informationization of maintenance management and avoid over-guaranteeing of equipment. Hidden dangers and risks brought by operation and maintenance activities.

The main links of the RFID technology data center asset intelligent management system:

Asset electronic tag: Initialize each asset tag through the RFID card issuer, and associate the data in the tag with the information of the IT device, as the unique identifier of the device, and bind it with the device for life;

Intelligent asset detection system: An RFID collection system is installed in each cabinet for reading and identification of asset information in the cabinet, and transmitted to the collection server through serial port or network;

Asset management server: This server runs an intelligent asset management system, which automatically detects RFID collection information downwards to obtain real-time equipment status, while providing asset life cycle process management functions;

Management station: This system is a B/S structure, which can support the access of ordinary PCs and mobile office computers to perform management operations such as asset viewing, searching, and inventory;

Hand-held inventory device: The device runs an asset management APP application, which is used to move assets or supplement business to ensure the management of the entire process.