TMDC / T-Block

The Practice of Tencent modular Data Center

Terry yan

2019.09.17
About Tencent
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570 Million MAU 1.09 Billion MAU 170 Million MAU

Tencent Cloud
Hyper Scale Datacenter Groups

► Largest DC groups of Asia Pacific

► 50+ DC in Global

► More than 1M servers worldwide

► 10+ Core Cities

► TB level DCI

► >100TB Internet Bandwidth

Tencent's 4 generations of data center
1st
before 2008 Generation • Traditional UPS & Raise floor design

2nd
2008 Generation • Waterside & Fan wall free cooling
• HVDC and Utility feed directly

3rd
2011 Generation • Tencent Modular Data Center
• Normandy Model

4th
2017 Generation • T-block
TMDC Design Key Points
► Productized - Rack and facility were assembled as a standard
product.

► Modularized - Standardized and flexible configuration, support

online expansion

► No UPS - HVDC backup, direct utility feed, Power efficiency over

97%

► In-row cooling - Shorten air-flow distance, improved cooling

efficiency

► Monitoring Standardized - Defined all the monitoring points based

on Tencent North interface
Typical 3rd Generation TMDC Datacenter Campus
Normandy model ► 2* 10KV Utility with 10MW capacity *n
► 4-5 transformer *n
► 20,000~25,000 servers *n
► 2 layers building * n
TMDC & HVDC deploy quantity in China

TMDC 240V HVDC TMDC accumulative total（sets）

9500

4500
3500

1600
500
>100,000个 200,000个
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
4KW rack 4kw rack
Source：CAICT whitepaper
Tencent 4th Generation Datacenter Requirement

Scale TCO Delivery Performance

Traditional datacenter model is not sustainable, we need to move on

4th Gen：T-block Data Center

= +
A T-BLOCK 1. IT Box 2. Terminal Power Box

+ …
3. Power distribution Box 4. Cooling Box
Building a Data Center like LEGO

Steel House IT box Terminal box

×1
×2
×3

Block Copy & Copy Cooling box

Building a Data Center like LEGO
T-base campus

Block Block Block Block Block Block Block Block

Building 1 Building 2
Block Block Block Block Block Block Block Block

Block Block Block Block Block Block Block Block

Building 3 Building 4
Block Block Block Block Block Block Block Block

Box level → Block level → Building level → Base level

A Typical Concept Picture of T-base Campus
Prefabricated and parallel assembling

Cost less than 10 moths to

build a T-block data center
from scratch
T-Nebula: Tencent Data Center Operation Platform
T-Nebula: Tencent Data Center Operation Platform
Dashboard Cooling System
Capacity Management PowerSecurity
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terryxyan@tencent.com