Creative Facility Design: Services
Management of space, power, cooling and airflow resources for the MCF is a business critical function that safeguards IT equipment resilience, maximizes facility lifespan, and minimizes operating costs. In the past, resource management was a simple matter of tracking space, power and Watts/cabinet loading. Today, more sophisticated techniques are required as MCF resources have become more difficult to control leading to over provisioning and resilience problems.
The source (and victim) of this challenge is modern, high-powered IT equipment that can overwhelm facility cooling systems and overheat themselves and neighboring units due to large, disruptive “thermal footprints”. Thermal footprints, if not properly controlled, can generate hot spots that break the design intent of the facility and reduce equipment reliability. In response, the facility temperatures must be reduced which leads to cost and power consumption overruns.
The integrated thermal prediction tool or solver can be used:
The source (and victim) of this challenge is modern, high-powered IT equipment that can overwhelm facility cooling systems and overheat themselves and neighboring units due to large, disruptive “thermal footprints”. Thermal footprints, if not properly controlled, can generate hot spots that break the design intent of the facility and reduce equipment reliability. In response, the facility temperatures must be reduced which leads to cost and power consumption overruns.
The integrated thermal prediction tool or solver can be used:
- At rack / cabinet level to aid in configuring cabinets with the rack mounted equipment
- At room level to configure the facility / room, its overall constructions and mechanical infrastructure
- As a conceptual / layout and test tool for the room / facilities IT equipment
- For ongoing change management of equipment and configuration so that changes can be tested before implementation
Creation of a thermal model of a facility implicitly results in a full inventory of the room including cabinets, IT equipment, power
systems, cooling systems and ventilation grilles, in fact almost everything in the Data Center
Creative Facility Design has identified key objectives that it will pursue for the long-term success of the business:
- Proven cost-benefit analysis environmental approaches to structure building, maintenance and energy consumption.
- Proactive real time tracking to the growing data center needs not just a snap shot in time.
- Maintaining historical data and asset management
- Providing solutions rather than pointing out problems
- Bridging the gap between IS and Facility Management
Creative Facility Design will create the following deliverables as part of this project: Perform Site Survey & Equipment Mapping
- Create Cabinet CFD Models
- Create a Room CFD Model
- Perform a Site Survey to Validate the Model
- Make Necessary Adjustments to the Model
- Provide the Client with a CFD Management Module
- Maintain a complete asset inventory log
- Maintain redundant and capacity cooling constraints of the facility
- Provides Periodic and/or Event Specific CFD Model Updates as the Operational Condition Changes
- Maintain a detailed change order log
