Environmental Readiness Services

The ever-growing challenge for companies who design the chips, circuit boards and the electronics boxes itself are being faced with the task of carrying the heat away from the equipment in the room. This is more of an electrical cooling problem than a room cooling or ventilation issue.

Design engineers for data centers now need a way of predicting the effect of changes in heat load and distribution and how alternative cooling solutions will perform. Verari’s Environmental Assessment Services provides the means to create a virtual facility to address the issue.

Our services can be used:
   • To aid in configuring equipment
   • To aid in configuring the facility, its       overall constructions and mechanical       infrastructure
   • As a conceptual, layout and test tool       for the room and facilities IT equipment
   • For ongoing management of equipment      and configuration so updates can be       tested before implementation

The creation of a thermal model of the facility generally results in a full inventory of the room, including cabinets, IT equipment, power systems, cooling systems and ventilation grilles.
 

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Facility Design

Verari’s Environmental Assessment Services can evaluate the performance of load versus cooling for any given equipment distribution in a facility by creating a virtual diagram of the data center. These service consultations can continue to form the basis of further optimization for the facility design.

For a typical pressurized floor facility, these can include:
   • Floor void depth analysis against pressure distribution
   • Size and distribution of air
   • Floor tile layout and the subsequent airflow
   • Equipment load distribution
   • Failure analysis

Troubleshooting

For existing data centers with problems or expansion plans, Verari’s Environmental Assessment Services provide onsite measurement and advisory services that complement the creation of the virtual facility diagram. These include:

   • Temperature data logging
   • Pressure data logging
   • Airflow measurements
   • Fan performance
   • Equipment inventory logging

The results of the above surveys are then matched against the theoretical performance of the virtual facility diagrams. These comparisons would then provide the basis of a more accurate evaluation of the performance of the data center as a whole. This calibrated “baseline”, the virtual facility diagram, is then used in order to troubleshoot or define any new expansion in capacity for the data center.
 

Environmental Assessment

Environmental conditions such as high temperature, hot spots, poor airflow and cooling, can effect hardware reliability. Up to 27% of hardware failures are attributed to poor data center environments.

A Verari Systems Environmental Audit and Readiness Assessment reveals the hidden environmental problems that may be present in your data center. This detailed service includes thorough onsite inspection and detailed environmental analyses using state-of-the-art thermal imaging and modeling tools.

In addition, suggestions and justifications will be provided to support future business requirements to ensure maximized return on investment by modeling the impact of new hardware being introduced into the data center.

With the Environmental Assessment Service, Verari Systems applies a proven methodology to deliver expert advice so that you can take action before system interruption occurs. The service is delivered without disrupting day-to-day operations. Benefits include:
• Reveal hidden environmental problems
• Prevent potential downtime
• Maximize return on data center investment
• Detailed analyses using thermal imaging and modeling tools
• Advice for deployment of blade technology
• Recommendations to improve power, cooling and facility utilization