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Management of air flow is rightly recognised as an important component in Data Centre Infrastructure Management. EU Best Practice recommendations (see EU Code of Conduct) include a number of actions to better manage air flow and to review and if possible raise target IT equipment intake air temperature. These are given as having a high expected return rating. CFD modelling is still somewhat complex and rarely run in real time. However, having access to real time information on temperature from multiple sensors in a data centre and being able to relate this to physical infrastructure and assets is becoming more important for effective planning and monitoring.

Benefits

Data Centre Infrastructure Management tools are ideal for tracking temperature in relation to the data centre contents. dcTrack™ has the following benefits:

• Visualise temperature in real time at multiple points in relation to racks, IT systems etc.
• Track temperature over time as part of equipment air intake reviews and subsequent raises in air intake temperatures
• Relate temperature points to space/occupancy for review.
• Enables management of space/occupancy to optimise temperature gradients, higher intake set points etc. (see managing changes and PUE or DCiE?)
• Enables moves/changes to be planned considering the efficiencies of higher temperature set points

ROI

Better management of the data centre environment offers significant potential savings. In Raritan's own data centre we achieved an 8% saving in power use by increasing room set point from 20°C to 23°C. Click here to read a summary of our own internal data centre optimisation project (PDF).