Optimize your Data Center with 42U's Data Center Condition & Capacity Assessment
This comprehensive data center assessment service will provide insight into your power, cooling and space utilization capacities through a thorough on-site inspection. Utilizing wireless sensors with real-time monitoring software, 42U’s engineers will baseline the current state of your data center’s power and cooling infrastructure and recommend improvements around efficiency, effectiveness and availability. This non-invasive assessment will help you visualize your current power, cooling and space utilization, identify under-utilized capacities and eliminate potential points of failure.
Your Condition & Capacity Assessment will include:
- Mechanical Systems Review:
- Comprehensive Mechanical Topology Study
- Condition, current load, and total capacity of all applicable equipment (chillers, cooling towers, dry coolers, heat exchanger, economizer systems, CRAC or CRAH and pumps)
* "Free Cooling" Economizer Analysis (if applicable)
- Electrical Systems Review:
- Comprehensive Electrical Topology Study
- Condition, current load, and total capacity of all applicable equipment (utility feed, transformers, switch gear, UPS systems, PDUs, remote power panels and generators)
- Computer Room Environmental Review:
- Overall layout review and physical inspection of plenum(s), raised floor system and containment infrastructures
- Continuous real-time monitoring with customizable wireless sensor system to track airflow, temperature, humidity and power consumption trends over time
* CFD modeling (available upon request)
- Reliability Study / Availability Estimation
- Potential Risk Identification
- Point of Failure Analysis
- Personnel Interview of all Stakeholders
- Review of maintenance procedures and practices
- Identification of future capacity requirements and strategic planning needs
Deliverable - A written report including:
- Current installed capacity of electrical and mechanical systems
- Remaining available capacity of electrical and mechanical systems
- Detailed analysis and recommendations for maximizing power and cooling capacities
- Identify and re-capture stranded capacities
- Business case analysis to identify potential savings and maximize your return on investment (ROI)
- PUE calculation & recommendations for efficiency improvements and optimization (using applicable GreenGrid methodology)
- Documentation of all observations including photos if permissible
Real-time Environmental Monitoring with Synapsense LiveImaging™ | ||
 |  |  |
SynapSense PowerImaging™ with power metering and the newest feature, Branch Circuit Monitoring (BCM), provides data center managers robust tools to further improve data center energy efficiency. PowerImaging™ allows for monitoring of circuit and rack-level power, leading to phase balancing and optimization of loading across PDU’s.
Consider our Condition and Capacity Assessment if you need to ensure that your data center is performing at an optimum level. Thermal mapping of temperature anomalies will identify high rack inlet temperatures, cold air leakage and room related issues. With our comprehensive Condition and Capacity Assessment, you will gain insight into your data center environment with high-level overviews, and the ability to zoom in on critical zone views. In addition, you will have the capability to drill down to detailed views of the temperature efficiency of a single rack and much more.
Environmental Maps portraying temperatures (subfloor to top of rack)
Contact us to develop the best Data Center Assessment Solution for your data center.
Our engineers can help you design the best Data Center Optimization plan.
Click here or Call 1-800-638-2638 for a free data center optimization consultation.
