Airflow Design Data center airflow management is just as vital to operations as cooling systems, working synchronously to protect sensitive data and equipment. Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) are cooling units that use chilled water and air to keep the internal environment functioning between ...
The availability of inexpensive networking equipment, coupled with new standards for the network structured cabling, made it possible to use a hierarchical design that put the servers in a specific room inside the company. The use of the term data center, as applied to specially designed computer...
3 Interior data center area: The server racks in intelligent architecture Heat reduction is usually further supported by the construction of a double floor in the server room. This is a simple principle. The warm air that is blown out from the servers is drawn in by a recirculating air coo...
Cable management is an important data center design concern, as various cables connect thousands of servers. If cable wires are too near to each other, they can cause cross-talk, which can negatively impact data transfer rates and signal transmission. Also, if too many cables are packed togethe...
Designers routinely address server room air handling through the use of containment schemes, such as hot aisle/cold aisle layouts. Consider two rows of equipment racks, where the rears face each other (see diagram, "Data center with hot and cold aisles"). Cold air from the HVAC system is ...
investment costs. Modular design will evolve from component modularization to architecture modularization and equipment room modularization, finally achieving full modularization of data center. The full modular design will enable fast deployment, flexible capacity expansion, simple O&M, and high energy ...
As you try out your initial database, you will probably discover room for improvement. Here are a few things to check for: Did you forget any columns? If so, does the information belong in the existing tables? If it is information about something else, you may need to create another tab...
Console room or Network operation center 4.1.1Definition of Data Center Surely, some names describe certaindata centerfunctions. Others just mean different sizes of data center in terms of capacity. Still others are just spelled differently. All these names are right if one is just focusing on ...
ICT equipment is deployed in racks, aligned in rows, within a data centre room. Traditional cooling manages the temperature of the room as a whole, however, this is not as efficient as more targeted cooling. Moving from cooling the entire room to focused cooling of a row of servers, or ...
Many of the major design and construction firms already rely on Building Information Modeling (BIM) for data center designs in order to take advantage of 3D clash detection and the production of coordinated construction documents. However, most don't realize that those functionalities are only the ...