Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Peter Odongo Wangia

Osvaldo Patricio Morales

Scott Thomas Seaton

Keith Allen Krueger

Lalu Vannankandy Kunnath

Kris Sean Redding

Eric Matthew Beal

Jose Seah Delapaz

Ryan Douglas Carver

Steve Todd Solomon

Ranveer Chandra

Eric Clarence Peterson

Sean Michael James

Todd R Rawlings

Lucas Neal Joppa

Mark B Freeman

Sunjeev Kumar Pandey

A design for the electrical infrastructure of a data center enables two different configurations to be utilized, including a distributed, redundant configuration that provides higher reliability and a non-redundant configuration that provides higher capacity. In the distributed, redundant configuration, each server in the data center draws power from at least two different power supply systems. This enables load shifting when a power supply system becomes unavailable, which can have the effect of increasing server reliability. In the non-redundant configuration, each server in the data center draws power from only one power supply system. Load shifting is not utilized in the non-redundant configuration, which eliminates the need to maintain reserve capacity and thereby increases capacity. Advantageously, it is possible to switch between these two configurations without making any internal changes to the data center other than modifying connections between sets of server racks and power buses.

Variable reliability and capacity data center design

Various methods and systems for implementing resource management for an infrastructure are provided. Resource management includes datacenter byproduct management interfaces, datacenter power management, datacenter operations optimization and infrastructure resource management. Resource management facilitates using and distributing physical resources, including incidental physical resources that are generated during operation of an infrastructure, based on a minimum threshold reserve of the physical resource associated with the operating the infrastructure. Resource management can include controlling an amount of the physical resource that is generated and an amount the physical resource that is reserved. The minimum threshold reserve in combination with the control over generating and reserving the physical resource help identify an allocable amount of the physical resource. Physical resources of an infrastructure are quantified to support resource management. Quantifying physical resources is associated with devices of the infrastructure and requests for physical resources in the infrastructure to perform different types of operations.

Datacenter byproduct management interface system

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