In one of the most beautiful and rapidly developing cities in Kazakhstan—the city of Aktau—the construction project for a data center for Halyk Bank has been completed.
A large, bright machine room occupies an area of more than 120 square meters. At the Bank's request, the server racks (both new and existing) had to be arranged in two rows, forming hot and cold aisles.
The air-cooling system consists of two powerful Schneider Electric UniFlair Leonardo series precision air conditioners—direct-expansion units with underfloor discharge of cooled air and backward-curved impellers with electronically commutated motors. Each air conditioner is sized to handle the data center's full server equipment load, so the second air conditioner provides 2N cooling redundancy.
Two Symmetra PX2 uninterruptible power supplies with scalable power of up to 96kW each are provided to ensure uninterrupted power to the server cabinets. The unique form factor of these UPS units allows them to be integrated into the same row as the server racks, significantly conserving valuable machine-room space.
In addition to the existing server racks, 8 new NetShelter 42U server and network racks (60 and 80 cm wide) were installed. Each rack is equipped with a 32-amp vertical Rack PDU.
Careful preliminary planning and many years of experience constructing similar facilities enabled Vicom Plus to complete the project and bring the data center online in the shortest possible time. Thus, just over two months passed from the start of project implementation (October 2021) to the full completion and commissioning of the equipment (December 2021).
An important feature of the new data center is that the machine-room area was designed in advance to accommodate future scaling of the server load. Halyk Bank's business is growing as rapidly as the entire Mangystau region of Kazakhstan. Therefore, the initial concept had to provide from the outset for the future expansion of the data center's capacity.
Also, to ensure an uninterrupted power supply for the new office building, an additional 120kW next-generation Easy UPS 3M UPS manufactured by Schneider Electric was installed. The obvious advantages of installing the new UPS model include its compact size and high efficiency (over 95%).
Vicom Plus, 2021.