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Determining the Power, Cooling, and Space Capacities when Consolidating Data Centers
When planning the consolidation of multiple data centers into existing data center(s), it is often difficult to establish the various capacities and capabilities of each site’s physical infrastructure. This information is a key input to deciding which site(s) will become the “receiving” data center(s). This paper describes how to specify...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Comparing Data Center Power Distribution Architectures
Significant improvements in efficiency, power density, power monitoring, and reconfigurability have been achieved in data center power distribution, increasing the options available for data centers. This paper compares five power distribution approaches including panelboard distribution, field-wired PDU distribution, factory-configured PDU distribution, floor-mount modular power distribution, and modular busway, and describes...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Data Center Build vs Colocation TCO Calculator
This flash tool allows the user to input their data center information costs and provide a TCO summary. This tool evaluates how each cost input affects the lifetime cost differences of the two approaches.
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the data center physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture.
This...Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Whitepaper: Data Center Projects - System Planning
Planning of a data center physical infrastructure project need not be a time consuming or frustrating task. Experience shows that if the right issues are resolved in the right order by the right people, vague requirements can be quickly translated into a detailed design.
This paper outlines practical steps...Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Whitepaper: Considerations for Owning versus Outsourcing Data Center Physical Infrastructure
When faced with the decision of upgrading an existing data center, building new, or leasing space in a retail co-location data center, there are both quantitative and qualitative differences to consider. The 10-year total cost of ownership (TCO) may favour upgrading or building over outsourcing, however, this paper demonstrates that...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Battery Technology for Data Centers and Network Rooms: Lead-Acid Battery Options
The lead-acid battery is the predominant choice for uninterruptible power supply (UPS) energy storage. Over 10 million UPSs are presently installed utilizing flooded, valve regulated lead acid (VRLA), and modular battery cartridge (MBC) systems.
This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these three lead-acid battery technologies.Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Whitepaper: Effect of UPS on System Availability
This white paper explains how system availability and uptime are affected by AC power outages and provides quantitative data regarding uptime in real-world environments, including the effect of UPS on uptime.
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Whitepaper: Cooling Strategies for IT Wiring Closets and Small Rooms
Cooling for IT wiring closets is rarely planned and typically only implemented after failures or overheating occur. Historically, no clear standard exists for specifying sufficient cooling to achieve predictable behaviour within wiring closets.
This paper describes the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of...Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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How Monitoring Systems Reduce Human Error in Distributed Server Rooms & Remote Wiring Closets
Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. Most can recount horror stories about how bad luck, human error, or just simple incompetence brought their server rooms down.
This paper analyzes several of these incidents and makes recommendations...Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Power & Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers
High density IT equipment stresses the power density capability of modern data centers. Installation and unmanaged proliferation of this equipment can lead to unexpected problems with power and cooling infrastructure including overheating, overloads, and loss of redundancy. The ability to measure and predict power and cooling capability at the rack...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Optimized Power, Cooling, and Management Maximizes Benefits
IT virtualization, the engine behind cloud computing, can have significant consequences on the data center physical infrastructure (DCPI). Higher power densities that often result can challenge the cooling capabilities of an existing system. Reduced overall energy consumption that typically results from physical server consolidation may actually worsen the data center's...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Eco-mode: Benefits and Risks of Energy-saving Modes of UPS Operation
Many newer UPS systems have an energy-saving operating mode known as “eco-mode” or by some other descriptor. Nevertheless, surveys show that virtually no data centers actually use this mode, because of the known or anticipated side-effects. Unfortunately, the marketing materials for these operating modes do not adequately explain the cost...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency and High-Density Data Centers
Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60, 000, 000 megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous financial burden on industry, and is a significant public policy environmental issue. This paper describes the principles of a new,...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Energy Impact of Increased Server Inlet Temperature
The quest for efficiency improvement raises questions regarding the optimal air temperature for data centers. The ASHRAE TC-9.9 committee has recently adopted an extension of the recommended thermal envelope for server inlet temperature and humidity. A popular hypothesis suggests that total energy demands should diminish as the server inlet temperatures...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers
Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60,000,000 megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous financial burden on industry, and is a significant public policy environmental issue. This paper describes the principles of a new, commercially available...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Preventive Maintenance Strategy for Data Centers
In the broadening data center cost-saving and energy efficiency discussion, data center physical infrastructure preventive maintenance (PM) is sometimes neglected as an important tool for controlling TCO and downtime. PM is performed specifically to prevent faults from occurring. IT and facilities managers can improve systems uptime through a better understanding...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
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Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution
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Allocating data center energy costs and carbon to IT users
Are complicated software and instrumentation needed to measure and allocate energy costs and carbon to IT users? Or can we get by with simple, low cost methods for energy cost and carbon allocation? How precise do we need to be? This paper provides an overview of energy cost and carbon...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution
The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power loads was also increasing. In recent years, traditional cooling system design has proven...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan, measure, and improve data center efficiency. In addition to reducing electrical consumption, efficiency improvements can gain users higher IT...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Choosing Between Room, Row, and Rack-based Cooling for Data Centers
Latest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that traditional data center cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are oversized, inefficient, and unpredictable. Room, row, and rack-based cooling methods have been developed to address these problems. This paper describes these improved cooling...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Deploying High-Density Pods in a Low-Density Data Center
Simple and rapid deployment of self-contained, high-density pods within an existing or new low-density data center is possible with today’s power and cooling technology. The independence of these high-density pods allow for predictable and reliable operation of high-density equipment without a negative impact on the performance of existing low-density power...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Impact of Hot and Cold Aisle Containment on Data Center Temperature and Efficiency
Both hot-air and cold-air containment can improve the predictability and efficiency of traditional data center cooling systems. While both approaches minimize the mixing of hot and cold air, there are practical differences in implementation and operation that have significant consequences on work environment conditions, PUE, and economizer mode hours. The...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center
Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley driving up data security requirements, the physical environment in the data center must be watched more closely. While well understood protocols exist for...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Ten Errors to Avoid When Commissioning a Data Center
Data center commissioning can deliver an unbiased evaluation of whether a newly constructed data center will be an operational success or a failure. Proper execution of the commissioning process is a critical step in determining how the data center operates as an integrated system. The documentation produced as a result...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Implementing Hot and Cold Air Containment in Existing Data Centers
Containment solutions can eliminate hot spots and provide energy savings over traditional uncontained data center designs. The best containment solution for an existing facility will depend on the constraints of the facility. While ducted hot aisle containment is preferred for highest efficiency, cold aisle containment tends to be easier and...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Containerized Power and Cooling Modules for Data Centers
Standardized, pre-assembled and integrated data center facility power and cooling modules are at least 60% faster to deploy, and provide a first cost savings of 13% or more compared to traditional data center power and cooling infrastructure. Facility modules, also referred to in the data center industry as containerized power...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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TCO Analysis of a Traditional Data Center vs. a Scalable, Containerized Data Center
Standardized, scalable, pre-assembled, and integrated data center facility power and cooling modules provide a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) savings of 30% compared to traditional, built-out data center power and cooling infrastructure. Avoiding overbuilt capacity and scaling the design over time contributes to a significant percentage of the overall savings....
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Cooling Entire Data Centers Using Only Row Cooling
Row cooling is emerging as a practical total cooling solution for new data centers due to its inherent high efficiency and predictable performance. Yet some IT equipment in data centers appears incompatible with row cooling because it is not arranged in neat rows due to the nature of the equipment...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Practical Options for Deploying IT Equipment in Small Server Rooms & Branch Offices
Small server rooms and branch offices are typically unorganized, unsecure, hot, unmonitored, and space constrained. These conditions can lead to system downtime or, at the very least, lead to “close calls” that get management’s attention. Practical experience with these problems reveals a short list of effective methods to improve the...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Energy Savings Performance Contracts for Federal Data Center Consolidation
The cost of operating and maintaining federal agency data centers is extremely high. Mandates and initiatives have been put in place to address these costs through energy conservation, but with budgets already strained, the initial capital investment can be a daunting hurdle. This paper describes energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs),...
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Data Center Temperature Rise During a Cooling System Outage
The data center architecture and its IT load significantly affect the amount of time available for continued IT operation following a loss of cooling. Some data center trends such as increasing power density, warmer supply temperatures, the “right-sizing” of cooling equipment, and the use of air containment may actually increase...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Preparing the Physical Infrastructure of Receiving Data Centres for Consolidation
With the lack of on-site resources, increasing demand for constant availability , and changes in the way equipment is deployed have heightened your day-to-day challenges and pressures with ensuring the health of your company's IT physical infrastructure. This paper gives examples of what is becoming a standard architecture for preparing...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Practical Options for Deploying IT Equipment in Small Server Rooms and Branch Offices
This paper discusses making realistic improvements to power, cooling racks, physical security monitoring and lighting. Download this paper now to understand what’s relevant, what solutions are specifically designed to solve your data centre and server room issues and how to make the right decisions around back-up for your organisation.
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Virtualisation and Cloud Computing: Optimised Power, Cooling, and Management Maximises Benefits.
As an IT manager today, you’re spread too thin worrying about network threats, ever-changing technologies, and IT equipment failure to think about the health of your company’s IT physical infrastructure. Download this paper now to uncover the four effects or attributes of virtualisation.
- The rise of high density
- Affects...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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The Different Types of UPS Systems
There is much confusion in the marketplace about the different types of UPS systems and their characteristics. Each of these UPS types is defined, practical applications of each are discussed, and advantages and disadvantages are listed. With this information, an educated decision can be made as to the appropriate UPS...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Watts and Volt-Amps - Powerful Confusion
This note helps explain the differences between Watts and VA and explains how the terms are correctly and incorrectly used in specifying power protection equipment. Many people are confused about the distinction between the watt and volt-amp measures for UPS load sizing. Many manufacturers of UPS and load equipment add...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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A Framework for Developing and Evaluating Data Center Maintenance Programs
Inadequate maintenance and risk mitigation processes can quickly undermine a facility’s design intent. It is, therefore, crucial to understand how to properly structure and implement an operations and maintenance (O&M) program to achieve the expected level of performance. This paper defines a framework, known as the Tiered Infrastructure Maintenance Standard...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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The Top 9 Mistakes in Data Center Planning
Why do so many data center builds and expansions fail? This white paper answers the question by revealing the top 9 mistakes organizations make when designing and building new data center space, and examines an effective way to achieve success through the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach.
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Whitepaper: Considerations for Owning versus Outsourcing Data Center Physical Infrastructure
When faced with the decision of upgrading an existing data center, building new, or leasing space in a retail co-location data center, there are both quantitative and qualitative differences to consider. The 10-year total cost of ownership (TCO) may favour upgrading or building over outsourcing, however, this paper demonstrates that...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Whitepaper: Data Center Projects - System Planning
Planning of a data center physical infrastructure project need not be a time consuming or frustrating task. Experience shows that if the right issues are resolved in the right order by the right people, vague requirements can be quickly translated into a detailed design.
This paper outlines practical steps...Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Data Center Build vs Colocation TCO Calculator
This flash tool allows the user to input their data center information costs and provide a TCO summary. This tool evaluates how each cost input affects the lifetime cost differences of the two approaches.
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the data center physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture.
This...Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Battery Technology for Data Centers and Network Rooms: Lead-Acid Battery Options
The lead-acid battery is the predominant choice for uninterruptible power supply (UPS) energy storage. Over 10 million UPSs are presently installed utilizing flooded, valve regulated lead acid (VRLA), and modular battery cartridge (MBC) systems.
This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these three lead-acid battery technologies.Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Whitepaper: Cooling Strategies for IT Wiring Closets and Small Rooms
Cooling for IT wiring closets is rarely planned and typically only implemented after failures or overheating occur. Historically, no clear standard exists for specifying sufficient cooling to achieve predictable behaviour within wiring closets.
This paper describes the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of...Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Whitepaper: Effect of UPS on System Availability
This white paper explains how system availability and uptime are affected by AC power outages and provides quantitative data regarding uptime in real-world environments, including the effect of UPS on uptime.
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
How Monitoring Systems Reduce Human Error in Distributed Server Rooms & Remote Wiring Closets
Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. Most can recount horror stories about how bad luck, human error, or just simple incompetence brought their server rooms down.
This paper analyzes several of these incidents and makes recommendations...Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Determining the Power, Cooling, and Space Capacities when Consolidating Data Centers
When planning the consolidation of multiple data centers into existing data center(s), it is often difficult to establish the various capacities and capabilities of each site’s physical infrastructure. This information is a key input to deciding which site(s) will become the “receiving” data center(s). This paper describes how to specify...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Eco-mode: Benefits and Risks of Energy-saving Modes of UPS Operation
Many newer UPS systems have an energy-saving operating mode known as “eco-mode” or by some other descriptor. Nevertheless, surveys show that virtually no data centers actually use this mode, because of the known or anticipated side-effects. Unfortunately, the marketing materials for these operating modes do not adequately explain the cost...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Energy Impact of Increased Server Inlet Temperature
The quest for efficiency improvement raises questions regarding the optimal air temperature for data centers. The ASHRAE TC-9.9 committee has recently adopted an extension of the recommended thermal envelope for server inlet temperature and humidity. A popular hypothesis suggests that total energy demands should diminish as the server inlet temperatures...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Optimized Power, Cooling, and Management Maximizes Benefits
IT virtualization, the engine behind cloud computing, can have significant consequences on the data center physical infrastructure (DCPI). Higher power densities that often result can challenge the cooling capabilities of an existing system. Reduced overall energy consumption that typically results from physical server consolidation may actually worsen the data center's...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Comparing Data Center Power Distribution Architectures
Significant improvements in efficiency, power density, power monitoring, and reconfigurability have been achieved in data center power distribution, increasing the options available for data centers. This paper compares five power distribution approaches including panelboard distribution, field-wired PDU distribution, factory-configured PDU distribution, floor-mount modular power distribution, and modular busway, and describes...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Preventive Maintenance Strategy for Data Centers
In the broadening data center cost-saving and energy efficiency discussion, data center physical infrastructure preventive maintenance (PM) is sometimes neglected as an important tool for controlling TCO and downtime. PM is performed specifically to prevent faults from occurring. IT and facilities managers can improve systems uptime through a better understanding...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency and High-Density Data Centers
Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60, 000, 000 megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous financial burden on industry, and is a significant public policy environmental issue. This paper describes the principles of a new,...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Power & Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers
High density IT equipment stresses the power density capability of modern data centers. Installation and unmanaged proliferation of this equipment can lead to unexpected problems with power and cooling infrastructure including overheating, overloads, and loss of redundancy. The ability to measure and predict power and cooling capability at the rack...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers
Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60,000,000 megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous financial burden on industry, and is a significant public policy environmental issue. This paper describes the principles of a new, commercially available...
Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric
-
A Framework for Developing and Evaluating Data Center Maintenance Programs
Inadequate maintenance and risk mitigation processes can quickly undermine a facility’s design intent. It is, therefore, crucial to understand how to properly structure and implement an operations and maintenance (O&M) program to achieve the expected level of performance. This paper defines a framework, known as the Tiered Infrastructure Maintenance Standard...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
The Top 9 Mistakes in Data Center Planning
Why do so many data center builds and expansions fail? This white paper answers the question by revealing the top 9 mistakes organizations make when designing and building new data center space, and examines an effective way to achieve success through the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach.
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Choosing Between Room, Row, and Rack-based Cooling for Data Centers (duplicate 1- offline)
Latest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that traditional data center cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are oversized, inefficient, and unpredictable. Room, row, and rack-based cooling methods have been developed to address these problems. This paper describes these improved cooling...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Types of Electrical Meters in Data Centers
There are several different types of meters that can be designed into a data center, ranging from high precision power quality meters to embedded meters (i.e. in a UPS or PDU). Each has different core functions and applications. This white paper provides guidance on the types of meters that might...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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High-Efficiency AC Power Distribution for Green Data Centers
The use of 240 volt power distribution for data centers saves floor space, simplifies power cabling, saves capital cost, reduces weight, and increases electrical efficiency. This paper describes the various con-figurations for this distribution architecture and quantifies the benefits for the optimal configuration. Note: The methods in this paper only...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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The Different Types of UPS Systems
There is much confusion in the marketplace about the different types of UPS systems and their characteristics. Each of these UPS types is defined, practical applications of each are discussed, and advantages and disadvantages are listed. With this information, an educated decision can be made as to the appropriate UPS...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Watts and Volt-Amps - Powerful Confusion
This note helps explain the differences between Watts and VA and explains how the terms are correctly and incorrectly used in specifying power protection equipment. Many people are confused about the distinction between the watt and volt-amp measures for UPS load sizing. Many manufacturers of UPS and load equipment add...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Preparing the Physical Infrastructure of Receiving Data Centres for Consolidation
With the lack of on-site resources, increasing demand for constant availability , and changes in the way equipment is deployed have heightened your day-to-day challenges and pressures with ensuring the health of your company's IT physical infrastructure. This paper gives examples of what is becoming a standard architecture for preparing...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Practical Options for Deploying IT Equipment in Small Server Rooms and Branch Offices
This paper discusses making realistic improvements to power, cooling racks, physical security monitoring and lighting. Download this paper now to understand what’s relevant, what solutions are specifically designed to solve your data centre and server room issues and how to make the right decisions around back-up for your organisation.
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Virtualisation and Cloud Computing: Optimised Power, Cooling, and Management Maximises Benefits.
As an IT manager today, you’re spread too thin worrying about network threats, ever-changing technologies, and IT equipment failure to think about the health of your company’s IT physical infrastructure. Download this paper now to uncover the four effects or attributes of virtualisation.
- The rise of high density
- Affects...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Allocating data center energy costs and carbon to IT users
Are complicated software and instrumentation needed to measure and allocate energy costs and carbon to IT users? Or can we get by with simple, low cost methods for energy cost and carbon allocation? How precise do we need to be? This paper provides an overview of energy cost and carbon...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution
The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power loads was also increasing. In recent years, traditional cooling system design has proven...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan, measure, and improve data center efficiency. In addition to reducing electrical consumption, efficiency improvements can gain users higher IT...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Choosing Between Room, Row, and Rack-based Cooling for Data Centers
Latest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that traditional data center cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are oversized, inefficient, and unpredictable. Room, row, and rack-based cooling methods have been developed to address these problems. This paper describes these improved cooling...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Deploying High-Density Pods in a Low-Density Data Center
Simple and rapid deployment of self-contained, high-density pods within an existing or new low-density data center is possible with today’s power and cooling technology. The independence of these high-density pods allow for predictable and reliable operation of high-density equipment without a negative impact on the performance of existing low-density power...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Impact of Hot and Cold Aisle Containment on Data Center Temperature and Efficiency
Both hot-air and cold-air containment can improve the predictability and efficiency of traditional data center cooling systems. While both approaches minimize the mixing of hot and cold air, there are practical differences in implementation and operation that have significant consequences on work environment conditions, PUE, and economizer mode hours. The...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center
Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley driving up data security requirements, the physical environment in the data center must be watched more closely. While well understood protocols exist for...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Ten Errors to Avoid When Commissioning a Data Center
Data center commissioning can deliver an unbiased evaluation of whether a newly constructed data center will be an operational success or a failure. Proper execution of the commissioning process is a critical step in determining how the data center operates as an integrated system. The documentation produced as a result...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Implementing Hot and Cold Air Containment in Existing Data Centers
Containment solutions can eliminate hot spots and provide energy savings over traditional uncontained data center designs. The best containment solution for an existing facility will depend on the constraints of the facility. While ducted hot aisle containment is preferred for highest efficiency, cold aisle containment tends to be easier and...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Containerized Power and Cooling Modules for Data Centers
Standardized, pre-assembled and integrated data center facility power and cooling modules are at least 60% faster to deploy, and provide a first cost savings of 13% or more compared to traditional data center power and cooling infrastructure. Facility modules, also referred to in the data center industry as containerized power...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
TCO Analysis of a Traditional Data Center vs. a Scalable, Containerized Data Center
Standardized, scalable, pre-assembled, and integrated data center facility power and cooling modules provide a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) savings of 30% compared to traditional, built-out data center power and cooling infrastructure. Avoiding overbuilt capacity and scaling the design over time contributes to a significant percentage of the overall savings....
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Cooling Entire Data Centers Using Only Row Cooling
Row cooling is emerging as a practical total cooling solution for new data centers due to its inherent high efficiency and predictable performance. Yet some IT equipment in data centers appears incompatible with row cooling because it is not arranged in neat rows due to the nature of the equipment...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
-
Practical Options for Deploying IT Equipment in Small Server Rooms & Branch Offices
Small server rooms and branch offices are typically unorganized, unsecure, hot, unmonitored, and space constrained. These conditions can lead to system downtime or, at the very least, lead to “close calls” that get management’s attention. Practical experience with these problems reveals a short list of effective methods to improve the...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric