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Cooling Challenges
Increasing Densities
Rack loads may vary from 2-30 kW in the same environment
A scalable cooling solution to handle future densities
Efficiency Strain
Not addressing increased heat load can result in reduction of
server efficiency
- Pull back on processing power
- Increase in server fan speed
Source: IDC
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Drivers for Energy Efficient Cooling
Real estate
Energy efficient infrastructure allows more space for IT
Compaction of IT equipment
Increasing energy costs
Commercial costs as high as $.13 kW/hour
Maximizing the investment in IT equipment
Lowering the kW entering the data center for every 1 kW
consumed by IT
Maximizing the computing per watt (Mips/kW)
Power Availability
Limits on available power for new and existing data centers
40% of end users claiming that demand is greater than supply
New power generation is only 1.3% increase per year
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Inefficient Response to Drivers
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Solutions for Wiring Closets and Small
Computer Rooms
InRow SC
Self Contained 5 kW
Heat rejected to plenum
Ventilation Unit
Airflow enhancer
Promotes circulation
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Same racks, same room, slightly different
cooling design
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Close Coupling: In-row approach (InRow RC)
½ Rack form factor
20kW rating
N+1 hot-swap variable speed
fans
Captures hot air exhaust from
nearby IT racks
Overhead or under-floor piping
Works with any brand of IT
cabinet
Add units for redundancy or
density
InfraStruXure Cooling Distribution Unit
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InRow RP
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Basic in-row design
Hot-aisle air enters
from rear preventing Cold air is supplied to
mixing the cold aisle
InRow RC
Can operate on hard
floor or raised floor
InfraStruXure® InRow RC
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CFD model of in-row system:
Modeling failure of one CRAC
In-row rack-coupled CRAC
Bayed to adjacent IT racks
Up to 40kW rating
N+1 hot-swap fans
Directly ducts hot air
exhaust from connected
IT rack
Front may be open or
ducted
Mix into existing legacy
data center
Add second unit for
redundancy or capacity
InfraStruXure Cooling Distribution Unit
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Rack Air Containment System
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Hot Aisle Containment
Shared
Capacity
Ease of
Redundancy
Zoned
approach
Room
independence
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Room-oriented cooling airflow patterns
Row-oriented cooling airflow patterns
Dynamic power of loads amplifies the
problems
Power consumption of new servers varies by 2:1 or more
depending on computational load
The variation in server power means thermal output also varies
by 3:1 or more
This means current data center temperatures tell you little
about what the temperature will be minutes or hours from now
CFD analysis or ASHRAE TC 9.9 testing will be useless in
determining the condition of your cooling system
Users cannot predict if the designed-in cooling redundancy of
their system will actually work even if it works right now
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A Hybrid Approach to Cooling
Most Data Centers will have a mix of heat densities
and therefore cooling solutions
IT Refreshes happen every 2-4 years resulting in a mix
of distributed IT assets
IT management of blades and storage deployments is
often in clusters
- Concentrated high density loads
Older server assets may be well served by room cooling
units
Row-oriented
Rack-oriented
d
Room-oriented
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What about installation and piping?
InfraStruXure® InRow RC
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PEX/Aluminum laminated seamless piping
Flexible:
Earthquake and
impact resistant
Joint-less bends
Eliminate leaks
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Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU)
Main supply and return headers
Supplies and returns coolant to and from the
Chiller
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Cooling becomes more like power!
Power Cooling
Power Coolant
Distribution Unit Distribution Unit
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