{"id":2763,"date":"2011-06-16T21:59:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2012-05-08T23:13:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T22:13:59","slug":"microsofts-windows-azure-datacentres-some-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/microsofts-windows-azure-datacentres-some-statistics.htm","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Azure datacentres: some statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I blogged about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/designing-a-private-cloud-infrastructure.htm\">designing a private cloud infrastructure<\/a>, based on the practices employed by the major cloud service providers.<\/p>\n<p>Today I got a taste of the scale of some of those cloud operations, when Microsoft gave an online presentation on Windows Azure to their <a href=\"http:\/\/msicab.com\/\">International Customer Advisory Board (ICAB) for Server and Cloud<\/a> (of which I&#8217;m a participant).<\/p>\n<p>Remember the shipping contains that I mentioned as units of scale in a modern datacentre? Here are a few stats about Microsoft&#8217;s Azure datacentres:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each datacentre runs at around 95\u00b0F (or 35\u00b0C): that&#8217;s pretty warm but, even though there is air conditioning installed, it&#8217;s rarely used, as the containers are self-cooling (using a water system).<\/li>\n<li>Containers are stacked in units that are two high and then connected to power, water and networks. (Now that&#8217;s some appliance!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/datacentre-containers.jpg?w=480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Microsoft's Azure appliances\"  \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each container unit contains around 2500 servers and a whole datacentre has 360,000 servers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/datacentre-containers-inside.jpg?w=480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Inside onr of the containers\"  \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The containers are normally dark &#8211; I described resource decay in my earlier post &#8211; that means that it&#8217;s rarely necessary to enter the datacentre.<\/li>\n<li>In fact, the datacentres are so highly automated, that there are just 12 staff: 9 armed security guards and 3 administrators. (I&#8217;m guessing that&#8217;s working 3 shifts, so only 3 or 4 on duty at any one time.)<\/li>\n<li>Humans are never alone &#8211; systems exist to ensure that people can only enter in pairs, and leave in pairs too.<\/li>\n<li>So far, Microsoft has spent $2.5bn on its six Azure data centres, with more planned (and that doesn&#8217;t include the datacentres for its other operations).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I blogged about designing a private cloud infrastructure, based on the practices employed by the major cloud service providers. 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