This document summarizes a presentation about how IT decisions impact facilities management in data centers. It discusses how choices around server type, server class, equipment airflow patterns, storage type, cooling unit setpoints, cage layout, and airflow management best practices can significantly affect operating costs, capacity, and mechanical systems. Selecting servers with higher delta T or blade servers instead of pizza boxes, for example, can substantially reduce data center cooling needs.
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How IT Decisions Impact Facilities: The Importance of Mutual Understanding
1. How IT Decisions Impact Facilities: The
Importance of Mutual Understanding
Lars Strong, P.E., Upsite Technologies
Ian Seaton
Airflow Management Awareness Month
June 15, 2016
14. ASHRAE Server Class
How to know the effect of temperature on ICT equipment
reliability/life?
How to know how long it is OK to operate in allowable
temperature range?
The “X” Factor
1. Baseline = 24/7 operation @ 68˚F server inlet temperature
2. OEM historical data on user failure reports
3. Performance variations above, at and below baseline 68˚
4. Premise is that the data center temperature follows mother nature
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