Osborne Park (OSY) Data Centre Facility

DC Two's Osborne Park data centre is conveniently located approx. 6 km north/west of the Perth CBD, buried in the side of a hill and formed within a concrete bunker. The rather non-descript exterior opens into an Aladdin's cave of technology that has been carefully crafted to fully support both Cloud and colocation needs.

The data centre is corner-stoned by Tier III principles and was recently put to the ultimate test when power services were lost for a period of two weeks after a storm front passed through Perth during February 2017. With our own disaster/ business continuity plan deployed, the data centre was forced to run on diesel generators, delivering 100% uptime for all clients, for a 2-week period.

Very few data centres can say they have run on their backup systems for 2 days, next to none have either run or survived for 2 weeks which is a testament to the design of the centre, the efforts of our engineers and the processes in place to support proven un-interrupted operations.

Building and Location

• Located very conveniently in the centre of the Osborne Park business district and close to the Herdsman Business Park
• Located about 6 km from our Perth CBD data centre POP
• Plenty of convenient and free on-site parking
• Single storey premises of 300+m2
• Total ICT white space of 94m2 with around 40 racks
• Heavy duty Raised flooring

Power

• The data centre has up to 1 MVA of total power available
• Individual racks can be easily configured to power up to 30kw
• ICT designed load with an initial capacity of up to 240kw
• True A+B dual power distribution from incoming feed to rack power distribution units (PDUs)
• Each ICT rack is fitted with two (2) PDUs supplied via A+B dual independent power paths
• In rack Static Transfer Switches (STSs) for single corded devices
• Over 48 hours of diesel fuel storage on site
• Engineered and tested dual diesel power generation sets (capable of continuous use)

Power Protection

Backup Power

• Multiple Dual independent A+B backup generators
• Fully automated failover from mains to generator
• Either generator can power the entire site

UPS Systems

• Multiple Dual independent A+B Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
• Modular UPS system enabling uninterrupted expandability
• UPS batteries continuously cooled by DC CRACs to maximise battery life
• UPS Systems under full maintenance & service contracts to ensure optimal ongoing operations
• Over 30 minutes of battery runtime

Cooling

• Emeron and Stultz Computer Room Air Conditioners (CRACs) providing N+1 air cooling in a fully redundant configuration
• Industry leading Chatsworth Vertical Exhaust Duct (VED) rack cabinets keep the server/equipment hot air exhaust and the cold intake air completely separated to maximise cooling efficiency
• Chatsworth passive cooling solutions cabinets are the most cost effective and cooling efficient thermal management solution on the market today
• Chatsworth VED rack cabinets can provide up to 30kw per rack with passive cooling and zero points of failure!

Telecommunications

• Multiple diverse underground East-West points of entry for incoming telco fibre
• Vocus and Telstra fibre and Points of Presence (POP) installed
• TPG network within 200m
• On-Net with DC Two's Perth DC Ring
• DC Two currently peering directly with Vocus, Telstra, WAIX and Speedcast
• 1Gbps dedicated WAIX Peering
• DDoS Protection for best defence against malicious cyber attacks
• All DC Two networks are physically deployed and managed into 3 independent fabrics for:
  1. Internet facing & customer traffic
  2. Storage Area Network (SAN) traffic
  3. Out of band or management network
• All network switching via enterprise grade Juniper, IBM and Cisco equipment
• Direct Point to Point Connection to Speedcast's Henderson Satellite Landing Station

Fire Detection

• Primary fire detection will be via a Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA) system. VESDA fire alarm system can detect very subtle amounts of hazardous gases, which could harm people and property
• Secondary and redundant fire detections via the security system smoke detectors backed by 24/7 manned NOC support

Security Systems

• 4 Zone/Level security and protection system
• Security monitored with thermal, motion and smoke/partical detectors in all zones
• Swipe Card access for less critical zones
• Swipe Card and Biometric fingerprint access required for critical plant and data centre access
• Security system controlled Magnetic Locks securing service access ways
• 24/7 monitoring via external security NOC
• Internal and External CCTV coverage with high resolution cameras
• 30+ days of CCTV digital archiving

Monitoring

• Monitoring of all internal and external elements including
  • All Power elements including
    • Mains power
    • Generator operations
    • UPS systems
    • Rack PDU power usage
  • Data Centre environmental elements such as
    • Temperature and humidity
    • Security and CCTV coverage
    • Security access
  • Networking
    • Internet feeds
    • Peering Feeds
    • SAN Fabric
    • Out of Band network monitoring
    • Peering and direct links
    • Routers & switches
  • Cloud infrastructure
    • Virtual platform server hosts
    • SAN Storage
    • Cloud Storage