{"id":2887,"date":"2019-02-26T02:31:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T02:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2019-02-26T02:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T02:31:47","slug":"data-center-tiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/data-center-tiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Center Tiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tier 1<\/strong> = Non-redundant capacity components. things such as power have single feeds.<br \/>\n99.671% Uptime<br \/>\nno redundancy<br \/>\n28.8 Hours of downtime per year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tier 2<\/strong>\u00a0= Tier 1 + Redundant capacity components.<br \/>\n99.749% Uptime<br \/>\nPartial redundancy in power and cooling<br \/>\nExperience 22 hours of downtime per year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tier 3<\/strong> = Dual-powered equipment and feeds for power, cooling, and essential services.<br \/>\n99.982% uptime (Tier 3 uptime)<br \/>\nNo more than 1.6 hours of downtime per year<br \/>\nN+1 fault tolerant providing at least 72-hour power outage protection<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tier 4<\/strong> = All components are fully fault-tolerant including uplinks, storage, chillers, HVAC systems, servers etc. Everything is dual-powered.<br \/>\n9.995% uptime per year (Tier 4 uptime)<br \/>\n2N+1 fully redundant infrastructure (the main difference between tier 3 and tier 4 data centers)<br \/>\n96-hour power outage protection<br \/>\n26.3 minutes of annual downtime.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read up on the N redundancies. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/N%2B1_redundancy\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/N%2B1_redundancy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tier 1 = Non-redundant capacity components. things such as power have single feeds. 99.671% Uptime no redundancy 28.8 Hours of downtime per year. 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