Data center

A data center (also known by its acronym, DC) is either:

• The premises such as a building or another physical location where the computing devices of one or more organizations are housed, or
• The organization itself who takes care of these computing devices.

Characteristics

Storage

Main wikipage: Storage capacity

RAID, especially software RAID

Traffic

Data traffic including internal traffic.

Computation

Computing servers including dedicated servers.

Power supply

UPS

Tools

DC tools

• rsync, a tool for comparing files on different servers.
• SCP, a tool to transfer data over an encrypted connection.

DC client tools

The clients usually access their devices through some shell, primarily, SSH or KVM console. The pingplotter allows to locate IP addresses of the resources.