Cooling Solutions - Not Just About Data Centre Air Conditioning
Data centre and computer room cooling is one of the most involved tasks of data centre management. You need to fully grasp the range of options open to you, to put in place the right cooling equipment and monitoring systems. Your key steers will be the rack power density in your IT equipment and your facilities' efficiency levels.
These are the three issues you'll need to factor in to manage data centre cooling:
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Understand your IT equipment power density needs, then follow this up by defining a solution that suits your current IT equipment, but importantly, gives room for flexibility and scalability in the future.
It's acknowledged that cooling is the biggest power consumer in data centre M&E operations and in many legacy operations, it can use more than the actual IT equipment. So it's essential to pick the correct solution as it will greatly influence whether you can make improved energy efficiency levels in your centre. This will in turn impact favourably on your centre's operational costs.
Integral to sustaining the right environmental conditions, identifying and managing hotspots and achieving efficiency, is to need to fully grasp and control airflow in your technical space. This involves considering the cool air supply levels, server heat load and heat rejection as interrelated and not separate systems.
Understanding data centre cooling technology is a key component to managing your room temperatures. To master this demanding challenge, you'll need to fully understand key concepts such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling, Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Data Centre infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) Assessment.
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