 6SigmaDC Overview
Release 7.1: Ground-breaking software for the DataCenter Industry
6SigmaDC is the unique software suite from Future Facilities for datacenter operators, datacenter designers, facilities managers, field engineers and equipment designers, in fact anyone who has an interest in contributing to designing and/or maintaining a model datacenter.
This comprehensive toolset allows you to build and test an entire Virtual Facility (VF) – the holistic 3D mathematical representation of your datacenter at any point in time – past, present and future. Indeed you can use software modules from the suite to check out the configuration at almost any level right down to the design of a specific item of IT equipment.
The VF provides a standard way for any stakeholder to share their ideas, plans and proposals with each other, so not only does it allow one to design or evaluate space, power, cooling and network decisions but the VF provides a great communication methodology between the interested parties. In fact it can be used to coordinate design, planning and implementation throughout the datacenter lifecycle.
Here are just some ways in which the 6SigmaDC software can be used, whether for green-field site or day-to-day management:
Use the VF:
 To design, plan and configure your new facility,
extension or upgrade:
- Consider architectural form (e.g. floor void height
room shape), location and general methodology
such as cooling in service corridors, perimeter
cooling or in-row cooling;
- Layout cooling, power & network infrastructure to
meet the needs of the building plan and IT
requirements;
To manage IT deployment in the room to:
- Maximize cooling/energy efficiency;
- Balance power configurations;
- Improve cable routing;
- Maximize space utilization;
- Maintain your inventory, and
- Test changes before they go live;
As a training tool to introduce new personnel to the
datacenter without risk;
Design and plan your equipment configuration at:
Room level;
Cabinet level;
Or if you are a supplier even the detailed design
within the equipment itself.
If you have heard about or know Future Facilities and understood that the VF was just for cooling system design you’ll now realise that it offers much more than this, in fact, you can review or configure pretty much everything in your datacenter.
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Features
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- Modules
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Flexibility's the key!
Whether you are a designer, hardware manufacturer, or part of an operational management team, 6SigmaDC contains all the tools necessary to create your perfect Virtual Facility.
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Room Level Calculations
6SigmaRoom and 6SigmaRoomLite take care of room level simulations while... |
Cabinet and Server Internals
6SigmaRack and 6SigmaET allow detailed modelling
of cabinet and server internals.
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Operational Management
6SigmaFM and 6SigmaITM facilitate perfect management, while other modules and plug-ins allow all other necessary detail to be included.
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 Communication is everything!
Utilise what you already have:
▪ csv / stl / dwg (2D & 3D) import from architectural / asset / and monitoring tools
▪ 3rd Party DCIM integration read more
... get what you need fast:
▪ Html / PPT Report generation
▪ Png Image / dwg (2D & 3D) export
▪ WMV, Animated GIF movie export
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Primary Applications
The primary applications within 6SigmaDC suite cover every aspect of datacenter design and management:
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 6SigmaRoom Design / Troubleshooting
Whether you are designing a new facility, making alterations to an existing one, or needing to troubleshoot what you already have – then 6SigmaRoom is the tool to address all your needs. Easy-to-use and extensible using plug-in modules, it requires no prior knowledge of airflow modelling for which you can be quickly trained. Not only does it help you build the VF, it also enables you to consider alternative configurations, plus inspect the likely thermal environmental conditions prior to taking any risks with the real equipment;
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 6SigmaRoomLite Conceptual Design
Out latest addition to the 6SigmaDC Suite. If you are looking for a fast, efficient way of proving a green field or conceptual design then 6SigmaRoom's little brother is for you. Providing full environmental information right up to the cabinet door, 6SigmaRoomLite provides the basic elements to assess all infrastructural and equipment layout decisions in the early stages of a datacenter's life;
* Sign up today for your introduction to the 6SigmaDC suite
with a FREE one month trial of 6SigmaRoomLite
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 6SigmaPlanner Space Planning
 A powerful tool for conceptual design for major infrastructure or IT updates of an existing data hall. It completely replaces the need for a CAD tool or spreadsheet for these functions.
6SigmaRoomPlanner offers many of the basic functions of the 6SigmaRoom and 6SigmaRoomLite applications, but without the analytical capability, making it a cost-effective, entry-level platform for undertaking space planning from a physical perspective, and where appropriate, including an inventory.
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 6SigmaFM Management
 Like 6SigmaRoom, 6SigmaFM can be tailored to your needs with a wide range of plug-in modules. If you are responsible for a facility (or three!) and you are regularly making changes – or looking to introduce new equipment or configuration upgrades – then 6SigmaFM is for you. Once your VF is up and running, you can easily: drag-&-drop new equipment into any cabinet or fill cabinets to capacity; add or change cabinets in the model; move floor grilles around; or model almost any other everyday operation you wish do in your datacenter. This makes it easy to check whether changes made today will help or hinder performance in the future;
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6SigmaRack Internal Cabinet Design
Whether you are designing a new pre-configured rack system, configuring a new rack-and-stack cabinet, or having trouble with equipment already housed in a cabinet, 6SigmaRack can help you minimise the risk of thermal failure.
An easy-to-use graphical, drag-&-drop tool allows you to create any virtual rack, which you can then test without any risk to the real equipment;
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 6SigmaET Thermal Electronics
If you provide equipment and want to design it to fit right into the VF environment 6SigmaET provides the tool to ensure that you customer needs will be satisfied. What’s more, not only can you design the equipment allowing for its configuration right down to component level allowing for a multitude of features such as PCBs, chips, heat sinks, cold plates, angled dims, thermal vias, power supplies, disk drives and much more, but you can also automatically create models for use in the sister product for modelling on a larger scale at rack and room level;
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 6SigmaViewer Universal File Viewer
The Free 6SigmaViewer application lets you communicate your designs and results effectively by enabling any of your stakeholders to view your VF created in the 6SigmaDC suite. Full functionality to view results and interrogate infrastructure is available to anyone you designate, at no extra cost to yourself.
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Hardware Recommendations
6SigmaDC is a program suite that will require different levels of hardware resource depending on the size and complexity of the models it is used to create and run.
For the sake of basic training and other small models (< 500sqft), it will run on a standard laptop with 1GB RAM and integrated graphics.
Any other modelling use is likely to require more powerful hardware.
The license server component, which can be installed separately on a remote machine, requires very little resource and should run on any supported Windows PC.
Supported Operating Systems. 32 and 64bit: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003,Windows Server 2008, Windows HPC Server 2008.
Virtual machines are not recommended.
Example configurations for mid-range systems:
Laptop - Mobile Core i7, 4-8GB RAM, Discrete graphics, 500GB HDD
Desktop - Core i7 or Xeon UP, 12GB RAM, nVidia Quadro FX 580, 1TB HDD
Server - Xeon DP or MP, 32GB+ RAM, nVidia Quadro FX 1800, 1TB HDD |
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