Highly available server room for RHI Magnesita GmbH at the new location in Vienna
In the course of RHI Magnesita’s relocation in Vienna, a highly innovative data center with maximum availability was planned and built by the total solution provider EPS Electric Power Systems GmbH. The fail-safe data center infrastructure with ICT cabling was built according to protection class 4 and achieves an even higher level of IT security for the refractory world market leader. RHI Magnesita is the world market leader for high-quality refractory products, system solutions and services. This makes RHI Magnesita indispensable for industrial high-temperature processes above 1200 °C in the steel, cement, glass or non-ferrous metal industries. RHI Magnesita serves more than 10,000 customers in almost all countries worldwide – from raw materials to refractory products. With over 14,000 employees in 35 main production plants and more than 70 sales locations, the company, headquartered in Vienna, has an unparalleled geographical diversity.Fail-safe data center with ICT cabling
RHI Magnesita relocated its headquarters within Vienna and implemented a new data center with state-of-the-art IT infrastructure to the highest security standards. In accordance with the applicable data center (data center) standard DIN EN50600, the entire server room was planned, built and put into operation by the total solution provider EPS Electric Power Systems in just a few weeks. A higher level of security and higher availability could be achieved as a result. “EPS was particularly convincing against other providers due to its high level of technical expertise in the field of planning and conceptual design,” emphasizes Martin Zwettler, Director Global IT Infrastructure & Communication at RHI Magnesita. A special feature of this solution are three individual, separate fire compartments. It houses the IT whitespace, as well as the technical and battery rooms. These areas are protected by independent access control according to protection class 4. As part of the data center solution, a comprehensive ICT cabling concept from EPS was also planned and implemented. The structured fiber optic and CU data cabling includes the connection from the provider room to the server room, middle-of-row interrack cabling, redundant fiber optic building cabling to the floor distributors and horizontal Cat6A cabling to the workstations and access points.Highest availability and security standards
Peter Reisinger, Sales and Project Manager at EPS, emphasizes the relevance of the selected availability class and adds: “The risk of failure has been massively reduced by the selected redundancy of the components. In the event of a permissible error, the infrastructure remains unaffected.” The data center and the associated technical rooms of RHI Magnesita were equipped with state-of-the-art IT infrastructure, including redundant and energy-efficient UPS systems with external batteries, a redundant air conditioning system, RCS (Regulated Cooling Solutions) server acks, a fire prevention system, early fire detection, a leak detection system, and a higher-level monitoring system. Within a few weeks, a highly innovative data center with state-of-the-art data cabling was created for RHI Magnesita that meets the highest security and availability standards. Paul Kreuz, Leading IT Site Administrator Vienna, concludes: “The time factor was certainly a challenge due to the move. However, the entire project with the EPS team was very solution-oriented and technically flawless.”Details of the server room equipment and solution
- Data Center Basic Investigation, Draft Planning and Implementation Planning
- Data center overhead cable routing for fiber optic and CU interrack cabling
- RZ RCS server racks for targeted and individually adjustable cooling
- Data center UPS system redundant, with external batteries
- Data Center Power Supply with UPS PDM External Bypass Switch
- RZ UPS UV PDM, equipped with digital RCD/LS with RCM residual current monitoring
- RZ LED lighting, RZ equipotential bonding
- Data center air conditioning system, redundant for server, technical and battery room
- Data Center Fire Detection System with H2 Detection in the Battery Room
- Data center technical fire prevention systems
- Data center monitoring system for monitoring the infrastructure
- RZ CU & FIBER MoR Interrack Cabling
Structured Data Cabling Details
- Fiber optic and CU cabling between provider room and server room
- Redundant fiber optic backbone cabling from the server room to the floor distributors in the office area
- Horizontal Cat6A office cabling for all junction boxes per subscriber
