How many data centers?

An appliance data center resource represents a physically contiguous area in which racks containing IT equipment are located. You create data centers in the appliance to describe a lab floor or a portion of a computer room, which provides a useful grouping to summarize your environment and its power and thermal requirements.

Using data centers to describe the physical topology and power systems of your environment is optional. If you choose to create multiple data centers, consider including data center information in your other resource names to enable you to use the appliance search capabilities to filter results by data center.