Data Center Design by ARISTOS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Power and Cooling:
Companies performing data center infrastructure upgrades to support the demands for high performance,high availability requirements, and data center consolidation activities need to be aware of the challenges associated with balancing performance, availability, and consolidation.
Deficiencies in data center power and cooling are being driven by the growth of blade servers. While these blades minimize rack space, they require several times more power than traditional rack-mounted servers and the result is additional cooling is needed.
Aristos International assists companies with analysis of their data center facility design to ensure it will operate with the power densities and deliver the cooling that modern equipment requires.
New designs must ensure the power delivered is adequate to supply the floor space at the required densities. Detailed designs and equipment selections reduce hot spots and provide cooling to every part of the room.
Power and cooling equipment manufacturers offer various options for high-density and blade enclosures to provide adequate power and cooling:
Power and cooling equipment manufacturers offer various options for high-density and blade enclosures to provide adequate power and cooling:
- Provide the capability to power and cool every rack to the peak enclosure density.
- Provide the capability to power and cool to an average value (below the peak), and use supplemental cooling to cool the racks with high density.
- Provide the capability to power and cool to an average value (below the peak value), and allow high density racks to borrow nearby cooling capacity.
- Provide the capability to power and cool to an average value (below the peak), and spread the load for by spreading the equipment throughout other enclosures.
- Provide the capability to power and cool to an average value (below the peak), provide an area within the room that has high cooling capacity, and place high density enclosures in that area.
Each of these alternatives has advantages and disadvantages, data center managers must plan and rethink the design of the data center power and cooling infrastructure to meet the growing demands of the new computing equipment.