42U Data Center Cooling Analysis Services

42U offers a suite of specialized engineering and educational services that enhance data center cooling, server room cooling and computer room cooling without additional capital investments. You will be able to:

• Boost data center reliability
• Optimize your current cooling infrastructure
• Enable precision cooling to eliminate hot spots
• Dramatically reduce bypass airflow
• Assist with data center ASHRAE compliance
• Understand the dynamics of your data center, including cooling requirements and deficiencies

KoldWorks computer room cooling analysis services is made up of:

KoldSeminars - Understand the Dynamics of Your Computer Room
Understand the science and issues behind effective data center cooling with a half-day, on-site educational seminar. This comprehensive session educates key stakeholders from both Facilities and IT departments. KoldSeminar includes a walkthrough thermal profile of your data center, a cooling science orientation, and practical solutions for high-density data center cooling issues.

KoldCheck - Diagnose Key Computer Room Conditions
Examine your data center infrastructure and find out how to regain control of the cooling environment with KoldCheck diagnostic services. Based on what you require, KoldCheck data center experts benchmark your existing conditions and evaluate your computer room to determine ways to optimize your existing cooling investment.

KoldTune - Optimize Cooling Capacity
Get more cooling capacity from your existing data center infrastructure with KoldTune remediation services. KoldTune goes a step further than KoldCheck by solving identified cooling-related problems, helping you improve the stability, reliability, and efficiency of the data center raised-floor environment.

KoldSeminars
Understand the science and issues behind effective data center cooling with KoldSeminar, a half-day, on-site seminar. The comprehensive session educates key stakeholders from both Facilities and IT departments. KoldSeminar includes a data center profile, a cooling orientation, and practical solutions for high-density data center cooling issues.

Highlights:

• An estimate of data center cooling efficiency/inefficiency and redundant capacity
• A walkthrough of your data center to estimate relevant measures of cooling health
• The identification of horizontal and vertical hotspot zones
• A survey of computer room layout comparisons to industry recommendations and best practices
• A cooling orientation that examines computer room environmental issues, precision cooling, control of bypass airflow, contamination, Cold and Hot Aisle arrangements, cooling unit placement, and the science of optimum cooling system operation
• Discussion of practical solutions for high-density data center cooling issues
• Infrared (IR) thermal imaging of IT and cooling equipment

Practical solutions for High-Density Data Center Cooling Issues and Controlling Bypass Airflow

• Quantify potential financial and operational impact of bypass airflow, hotspots, and electrostatic discharge (ESD)
• Review of available sealing methods to deal with bypass airflow, hotspots and ESD, including a hands-on demonstration of how to install standard products such as Integral, Surface, or Extended models to seal existing openings
• Review examples and case studies, including financial benefits from sealing bypass airflow as well as environmental improvements

KoldCheck

KoldCheck diagnostic services allow you to regain control of your cooling environment by taking a closer look at your data center infrastructure. Based on the level of your needs, Upsite data center experts evaluate your computer room to determine ways to optimize your existing cooling investment.

Upon completion of the on-site review, Upsite engineers present a comprehensive report with data and recommendations to solve existing and projected problems cost effectively.

Comprehensive Analysis of Key Data Center Conditions:

• Cooling conditions: A review of existing cooling conditions, such as a survey of rack/cabinet temperatures, measurement of room temperature and humidification patterns, analysis of room recirculation patterns, and inspection of cooling units.
• Airflow conditions: Analysis of current airflow conditions, including perforated tile layout, under floor airflow, perimeter breaches, and raised-floor bypass area and bypass airflow volume.
• Critical power conditions: A look at current power conditions that includes a comparison of power consumption vs. system capacity, identifies power distribution limits, quantifies rack utilization, and identifies raised-floor bypass area and bypass airflow volume.
• General room conditions: An overall assessment that surveys the make-up air system, equipment layout, cabling management, and room contamination (including debris and dust).

A detailed report is delivered to you approximately four weeks after the analysis is completed.  Report can include all of the following:

• Estimate of efficiency improvement with elimination of bypass airflow (how many cooling units could be turned off or relocated to eliminate buying additional equipment for future installations)
• Recommendations based on detailed analysis and study of findings including critical vulnerabilities
• Fixed-price quote for KoldTune to implement KoldCheck recommendations
• General business case analysis to calculate investment and return on investment of implementing KoldCheck recommendations
• Calculation of Upsite Coefficient of Effectiveness
• Tile Flow computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling

KoldTune

Get more cooling capacity from your existing data center infrastructure with KoldTune remediation services. KoldTune goes a step further than KoldCheck by solving identified cooling-related problems, which can help you improve the stability, reliability, and efficiency of the data center raised-floor environment.

After a KoldTune, your data center will be able to cool more IT equipment with the existing cooling infrastructure and operate more efficiently.

Highlights:

• Remediation plan: After an initial on-site visit to collect baseline information, Upsite designs a remediation work plan and assigns an engineering team.
• Airflow rebalancing: The Upsite team provides complete airflow rebalancing and custom solutions for sealing all reasonably accessible unmanaged openings in the raised floor.
• Perforated tile adjustment: The team adjusts the number and location of perforated tiles.
• Cooling unit adjustment: The team recalibrates set points and humidity controls on cooling units, and possibly turns off excess capacity.
• Airflow recirculation: The team addresses room and rack airflow recirculation.
• General tuning recommendations: The team provides recommendations for general tuning of the raised-floor environment.
• Post-remediation analysis: The team analyzes the room after remediation to capture improved conditions.
• Valuable reporting: Upon completion, Upsite provides a report that details efficiency improvements, a model of plenum airflow, and recommended practices for future equipment installation and configuration.
• Infrared (IR) thermal imaging of IT and cooling equipment

After a KoldTune, your data center will be able to cool more IT equipment and operate more efficiently using its existing cooling infrastructure. A detailed report will be delivered in approximately 4 weeks after the analysis and implementation are completed.

Report also includes:

• Recommended practices for future equipment installation and configuration
  Options additions:
• TileFlow- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model of plenum airflow from room (as found, after remediation, and best view)
• Calculation of Upsite Coefficient of Effectiveness