Data Centers

Overview

Haystack defines the fundamentals for modeling data centers via the DataCenter and Rack specs. Data centers are considered a specialized type of Space. Equipment and devices contained within the data center define their relationship to the data center via the spaceRef tag.

Racks

Racks are modeled as specialized Equip with the Rack marker tag. The servers and networking gear contained by the rack declare their containment relationship via the equipRef tag.

Examples

Here is a simple example for a data center containing one rack that contains one server:

id: @dc
dis: "Simple Data Center"
dataCenter
space
siteRef: @site

id: @rack1
dis: "Rack-1"
rack
equip
spaceRef: @dc
siteRef: @site

id: @server-1A
dis: "Rack-1 Server-A"
server
computer
device
rackRef: @rack1
spaceRef: @dc
siteRef: @site