Data center Selectel

Main Article: Data Center (Data Center)

The network of data centers "Selectel" offers various categories of consumers a range of telecommunication services provided on the basis of their own data centers in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

• Placing a server (colocation) in the data center will give you the opportunity to get all the advantages of uninterrupted and fault-tolerant operation of your equipment, as well as a quick Internet connection . The cost of hosting the server is from 2500 rubles per month.
• Leasing a dedicated server (dedicated) will give you a number of advantages over placing your own equipment. Firstly, there is no need to buy a server, and then come to the data center to host it. Secondly, the replacement of failed components lies at the data center. The cost of renting a dedicated server is from 3000 rubles per month.
• Renting a virtual server (vds) is beneficial if you do not have enough virtual hosting resources, and renting a physical server is expensive and unjustified for you. The cost of renting a virtual server (vds) is from 256 rubles per month.
• Renting server cabinets and racks Your project is growing, the optimal price/quantity ratio will be the order of renting a server cabinet or rack for placing "tower" servers with Internet access included in the tariff.
• Renting server rooms Using this service, you can concentrate on developing your own business without being distracted by the construction and maintenance of your own data center.
• Lease of fiber-optic communication lines to large traffic exchange points at B. Selectel, 18 or Borovoy, 57, as well as between Selectel data centers.

• The data center of the Selectel network is located in Moscow on Berzarin Street and provides its customers with a range of telecommunications services. The total area of ​ ​ its premises is 500 sq.m., of which the server room occupies 300 sq.m. The data center houses 80 telecommunication cabinets, precision air conditioners and uninterruptible power supply clusters. The protected area, where the security systems were actually installed, included a data center and a warehouse for storing customer spare equipment.
• The data center in St. Petersburg is located near the Moskovskaya metro station on Tsvetochnaya Street in a building with a total area of ​ ​ 1500 m2. The machine room occupies an area of ​ ​ 700 m2, which houses 200 server racks. Selectel purchased a building for a datacenter on a flower street to avoid being affected by the landlord's mood or appetite. The Selectel data center is designed to meet Tier II requirements according to the TIA/EIA-942 and meets this level of reliability. All elements of engineering systems are duplicated according to the N + 1 scheme and allow repair or prevention without stopping the work of the data center.

2022: Selectel acquired the Berzarina data center for 1.3 billion rubles

At the end of August 2022, Selectel announced the acquisition of the Berzarin data center in Moscow, as well as neighboring commercial real estate. The transaction amount amounted to 1.3 billion rubles.

According to the press service of Selectel, as a result of the purchase, the company expanded the possibilities for scaling the site and using the entire complex of buildings, which previously required additional approvals, taking into account the lease agreement. In addition, the IT infrastructure provider received complete freedom of engineering solutions for the further development of the facility, the company said.

Selectel acquired a data center in Moscow for 1.3 billion rubles

{{quote 'As a result of the transaction, Selectel became the owner of all the buildings in which the company's data centers are located, "said Oleg Lyubimov, CEO of Selectel. - The acquisition of a complex of buildings on Berzarin will allow us to ensure full control over the further technological development of the site. }}

The data center on Berzarin Street in Moscow with an area of ​ ​ 7 thousand m2 is designed for 1.5 thousand racks, the total supplied capacity is 11 MW. By the end of August 2022, this is the provider's largest data center in terms of area and number of racks. The data center corresponds to the Tier-III reliability level and is protected from interruptions in the city power supply. The site has implemented a distributed-isolated 4/3N backup scheme to save electricity.

Previously, Selectel put into operation in the data center dynamic UPS with dual energy conversion - CPM 300 from Piller. They made it possible to abandon non-ecological batteries. The plants are included in uninterruptible power supply systems.

2020: Launch of two data center modules in Moscow and St. Petersburg

The Federal providerIT infrastructures Selectel launched two modules data centers in and. To Moscow St. Petersburg This became known on November 25, 2020. In total, 1,100 racks were put into operation as of November 2020. The cost of projects is more than $20 million. Most of the stands are already full of customers.

The commissioned modules are one of the most relevant data centers on the market in terms of technology. The infrastructure of data centers will save up to 40% on their operation in the future for 20 years.

According to the company's forecasts, the commissioned modules of the Berzarina data center (Moscow) and the Tsvetochnaya-2 data center (St. Petersburg) will be fully filled by mid-2021.

The commissioning of these racks allowed us to take 4th place in the data center market in terms of the number of racks. However, this indicator does not fully characterize Selectel's business, since we are not only a data center operator, but also an IT infrastructure provider. Unlike many competitors, we fill 70% of the racks not with client equipment, but with our own servers used to provide IaaS, PaaS services and other cloud solutions. Over the past 5 years, the company's annual revenue growth has been more than 40%. There is every reason to believe that this trend will continue in 2021, "says Alexey Eremenko, director of infrastructure at Selectel.

Responding to the needs of the market and the current high demand for data center services, the company has already begun construction of another module in the Moscow data center, its launch is scheduled for 2021. The St. Petersburg data center will also enlarge. The projected launch date is the first quarter of 2022.

2019

Launch of traffic filtering unit in St. Petersburg

On March 20, 2019, the company DDoS-GUARD announced the launch of a traffic filtering node in. St. Petersburg The node is a DDoS-GUARD development and is located data center Selectel in Flower 2. More. here

Launch of the second stage of the Berzarin data center in Moscow

March 20, 2019, Selectel provider IT and infrastructure solutions for business, announced the commissioning of the second stage data center of Berzarin. The site accommodates 350 server racks and was created specifically cloudy for services, which account for more than 85% of Selectel's revenue.

A number of Selectel services have already been deployed on the created areas of the Berzarin data center, including Dedicated servers and Virtual Private Cloud. Opportunities for organization private clouds and hybrid client infrastructures are open. The next stage will be the launch of Cloud VMware based and Cloud based services on the site. storage

The main technological feature of the second stage of the Berzarin data center is the use of direct meatballing with adiabatic air cooling. Compared to traditional systems, such a cooling scheme consumes up to 80% less electricity, the cost of which accounts for a significant part of the operating costs of the data center.

The site uses specially designed open-type racks with a capacity of 52 units, they allow you to make the most of the available space. Architectural design and verified engineering solutions ensure flexible start-up of the facility with additional installation of equipment and increase of consumed power capacity without negative impact on already operated systems. The step-by-step input scheme allows you to optimally distribute investments.

The total area of ​ ​ the second stage of the Berzarin data center is 1.2 thousand square meters, the design capacity is 2.5 megawatts. The level of reliability complies with the Tier III standard.

2017: PCI DSS certification

Selectel has confirmed that its data centers comply with the PCI DSS standard. The annual audit was conducted by the German company SRC Security Research and Consulting GmbH. Selectel certified its data centers according to the PCI DSS standard in 2015. In 2017, experts from the independent auditor SRC Security confirmed that the provider continues to operate the infrastructure in accordance with all specified rules and regulations. The decision was made on the basis of an assessment of physical and information security systems, network access control and monitoring, as well as data center hardware.

2016

Direct connection to London and Frankfurt

Selectel in September reported connecting to two new traffic exchange points: DE-CIX in Frankfurt and LINX in London. Expanding the peer-to-peer network speeds up access to resources hosted on provider platforms from anywhere on the planet.

Connections to DE-CIX (German Internet Exchange) and LINX (London Internet Exchange) were made as part of the Selectel IP network development program. The choice is due to the uniqueness and volume of Internet traffic passing through them. To date, DE-CIX is the largest, and LINX is the third largest point of exchange in Europe.

Doubling the capacity of the data center in Moscow

In the spring of 2016, Selectel completed work to expand its Moscow data center. The number of server racks has doubled. The company will lease part of the newly introduced capacities, the other part will be used to develop its own IaaS (infrastructure as a service) projects.

As a result of redevelopment and conversion of the premises of the Berzarin data center, a server room with 80 server racks (47U) with a maximum power of 5 kW was created. Its reliability level meets the requirements of TIA TIER and 3 standards. Some of the new capacities are reserved for the expansion of Selectel hosting and cloud services, such as dedicated ones, servers Virtual private cloud and cloud servers. Vscale Colocation services will also be provided here.

Fault tolerance of the server system is provided by redundancy of engineering system components according to the N + 1 scheme and the presence of two independent power supply channels. Communication channels with the largest traffic exchange point in Moscow MMTS-9 reserved according to the 2N scheme. This was achieved due to the presence of Selectel's own fiber-optic data network in the capital.

Neural Network and Big Data Solution

In July 2016, Selectel announced a service for renting dedicated servers with graphics cards. These servers are best suited for demanding performance and memory bandwidth tasks. Selectel is the first Russian hosting provider to offer equipment of this class.

Due to the peculiarities of the architecture, processors of modern video cards (GPUs) have more processing power. They repeatedly speed up computing, which is critical for the work of neural network algorithms, modeling and calculating physical processes, design, processing media content in real time, financial analytics, etc. Projects in these areas require a special infrastructure: standard servers or public clouds do not fully meet their needs.

2015

Flower 2 data center

On December 17, 2015, Selectel announced the opening of the Tsvetochnaya 2 data center in St. Petersburg.

Tsvetochnaya 2 data center in St. Petersburg (2015)

The data center is designed for 1,000 server racks - the largest in this indicator in the North-West region. The company intends to lease part of the data center's capacities, and use another part to develop its own hosting and cloud solutions. As of December 17, 2015, Selectel invested about 1 billion rubles in the project.

The building of the data center in the Moscow region, within the business center of St. Petersburg. The total area of ​ ​ "Flower 2" ~ 12 thousand m ². On the four floors of the data center there are 10 machine rooms with a total capacity of up to 1 thousand server racks, warehouse, office premises.

author = Lev Leviyev, General Director of Selectel The opening of the largest data center in the North-West is a landmark stage in the company's strategic development. We have put all our knowledge and experience and two years of hard work into this project.

The Flower 2 data center has maximum energy efficiency due to the use of technologies, including indirect free cooling. The design capacity of the data center is 10 MW.

In terms of reliability and fault tolerance, "Flower 2" meets the requirements of the Tier III standard according to the Uptime Institute classification and the TIA-942 standard, is PCI DSS certified.

Improve DNS reliability

On September 30, 2015, Selectel became a partner of the European Internet registrar RIPE NNC and placed a root DNS server node in the data center. With this, Selectel indicated its contribution to improving the reliability of the global DNS system.

Network Interaction Diagram with DNS Servers (2014)

Failure-free operation of the domain name system (DNS) is critical for the normal functioning of the Internet. It converts symbolic domain names into IP addresses. Thirteen root servers provide DNS. A system of service nodes is built around each root server. This expands the geography of DNS and increases its reliability.

Each root server is indicated by Latin letters from A to M and is controlled by a separate operator. The RIPE NNC European Internet Registrar manages the K-server. Selectel, in agreement with RIPE NNC, placed one of the nodes of the root server in its data center.

Alexander Vechersky, the director of public relations, "Selectel" stated: "For us, this project is an act of responsible business. Market leadership imposes certain obligations on the company, in particular, to the industry and the community. When it became known that RIPE was opening a competition to host the root server node, DNS we immediately applied. As a result, their choice fell on. "Selectel" This fact is an unbiased confirmation of the reliability and stability of the infrastructure by "Selectel" professionals. This is an absolutely non-profit story. "Selectel" purchased and placed all necessary equipment free of charge. So the company contributed to increasing the level of reliability and fault tolerance of the global system. " DNS

Change Setup Payments

Hosting provider Selectel updated the lease conditions for dedicated servers in February 2015: it canceled the installation payment for all fixed hardware configurations. For customers, this means simultaneous savings of up to six thousand rubles when ordering a service. Installation payments are canceled for all currently presented configurations, including the latest servers with the Intel Xeon E5v3 processor family and DDR4 memory.

The lack of initial costs and prices in rubles make Selectel a profitable alternative to hosting providers from Europe and the United States. Other advantages of leasing dedicated servers in Selectel include unlimited Internet traffic without hidden conditions, the ability to remotely manage equipment, payment for services through global and local payment systems (Yandex.Money, WebMoney, RBK Money), round-the-clock technical support in Russian.

2012: Service malfunctions September 24-25

The problems began on Monday evening on September 24 (downtime 22:00 - 23:10). From the outside, it looked like a loss of connectivity with the St. Petersburg segment of the network. This failure entailed problems in all our Internet services in; St. Petersburg the Moscow segment of the network, as well as local server ports, continued to work. Also unavailable (DNS ns1.selectel.org and ns2.selectel.org), which are located in St. Petersburg, the Moscow DNS (ns3.selectel.org) did not hurt this failure. Due to the lack of connectivity, access to the site and control panel disappeared, the main load was on telephony, and therefore many customers could not wait for the answer^[1]

When analyzing the situation, it was possible to immediately establish that the problem was caused by incorrect operation of the aggregation layer switches, which are two Juniper EX4500 combined into a single virtual chassis. Visually, everything looked quite functional, but when connected to the console, many messages were found, which, however, did not allow to accurately determine the cause of the problem.

Action taken

Despite the fact that there was a reserve of equipment in the data centers, the network was built with redundancy, as well as a number of other factors that ensure stability and uninterrupted operation, the current situation became unexpected for us.

As a result, it was decided to carry out the following activities:

• Enhanced verification of optical transceivers and network equipment in a test environment;
• Armored Kevlar fiber optic cable in areas at risk of damage as a result of hooligan actions;
• Accelerate the completion of cloud server infrastructure upgrades.

2011

Regional Computing Center - Dubrovka village

On July 8, 2011, a new information and computing center (data center) was launched in the Leningrad Region, in the village of Dubrovka, in the server rooms of which 250 server cabinets (racks) are concentrated. This data center is the second half of the Regional Computing Center complex. The complex is the largest data center in the Northwest region. In total, it contains 490 47U server cabinets, 5MW of power and 1,550 sq.m. of server space.

All key elements of the complex are redundant according to the N + 1 scheme, which allows any repair or maintenance work to be carried out without interruptions. In the near future, the computing center will be certified according to the international TIA-942 standard. The availability of this certificate will allow you to officially assign the Tier 3 reliability level to this complex.

The complex is designed to accommodate server and telecommunication equipment of clients of the Selectel data center network. Despite its distance from St. Petersburg, our clients gladly agree to place their equipment in the "Regional Computing Center," because the complex has its own redundant optical channels to the main traffic exchange points of St. Petersburg and a round-the-clock technical support service operating according to the "remote hands" scheme.

The general characteristics of all data centers of the Selectel data center network are: capacity - 10.8 MW, number of server cabinets - 1130, area of ​ ​ server rooms - 3950 sq. M.

Dedicated Server Configurations Based on Intel Sandy Bridge Processor Family

Since the summer of 2011, the company's customers have the opportunity to use all the power of dedicated servers based on the new Intel Sandy Bridge processor family. The new dedicated server configurations are based on Intel Core i3-2120 processors with a base frequency of 3.3 GHz and Intel Xeon E3-1230 processors with a base frequency of 3.2 GHz (the maximum clock speed with Turbo Boost technology is 3.6 GHz).

Features of the Sandy Bridge processor line:

• New universal instructions for Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and Virtualization Machine Extensions (VMX)
• more flexible energy economy management and much less productivity loss;
• ECC memory support
• Dynamic Performance Management (Intel Turbo Boost)
• Advanced Security Technologies (Intel AES-NI).

The use of these functionality allows our users to adjust the performance of the server depending on its load. New configurations are assembled on proven Supermicro platforms. Each platform includes an IPMI module, thanks to which you can remotely manage the server power from the control panel at any time, as well as the ability to connect via IP-KVM.

The Intel Core i3-2120 processor-based server includes 8GB of DDR3 RAM (1333MHz) and two 500GB SATA hard drives. The Intel Xeon E3-1230 processor-based server is available in two versions:

• 8GB of DDR3 RAM (1333 MHz) and two 500 GB SATA hard drives;
• 16GB of DDR3 RAM (1333 MHz) and four 1TB SATA hard drives.

All new configurations use the next generation Western Digital server hard drives - WD RE4. The WD RE4 has 64MB cache, dual processors, and dual drive head positioning for faster performance on demanding servers and storage. The rental price includes connecting the server to the Internet at a speed of 10 Mbps with unlimited traffic and the absence of any ratios.

Several facilities of the Selectel data center network use Uniflair air conditioning (on freon and on chilled water) and low-voltage power distribution systems built on the basis of Schneider Electric products.