Data centers are often made up of hot and cold aisles, but traditional setups can cause warm air from one aisle to flow into the next, impacting overall efficiency. Learn how you can manage the temperature of your aisles more effectively.
Data centers are often made up of hot and cold aisles, and the design of the hot / cold aisle data center is far from new. However, the traditional setup causes warm air exhaust from one aisle to flow into the air intake of the next, meaning that the overall efficiency of the data center is impacted. And really, that’s what hot and cold aisle
containment is all about.
As rack density increases,
especially in edge data centers and hyperscale data centers, the need for efficiency increases. This is also impacted by the fact that there are more green data centers, who may be generating their own energy using solar or other renewable resources.
How does containment work and how does it impact your data center?
Remote Monitoring and Temperature Control
Of course, before we get to containment itself, it’s a good reminder to revisit physical layer monitoring. To know how effective any containment effort is, it’s necessary to monitor temperatures. This is most often done with temperature indicating panels, three per rack at the top, middle, and bottom, so that intake temperatures can be monitored
regularly.
Someone entering the area to manually check temperatures is yet another disruption to airflow, so remote monitoring as a part of physical network security is essential. This allows managers not only to monitor these temperatures, but receive alerts and take action if something goes wrong.
But the most important fact for this discussion is to know what temperatures are so that efficiency and the effectiveness of containment can be monitored.
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