Principal Uses

 IT Demand Management

     - Consider Installs, Moves, Uninstalls… to IT equipment considering space, power, cooling, network
        and weight in choosing locations.
     - Synchronize the virtual facility with other management tools by, for example, importing changes from
        asset management tools, and use simulation to assess plans before deployment.

  Capacity Management

     - Use thermal simulations to reset cooling limits on cabinets as IT layout deviates from original
        design loads.
     - Export updated cooling limits back to IT asset management tools. o Modify layout of data-hall. o Add
        or remove rows of racks and floor-tiles.

 Design Upgrade

     - Test effectiveness of proposed changes such as hot- or cold- aisle containment or cabinet-level
        cooling before deployment.
     - Test impact of new cable routes on airflow management before deployment.
     - Consider changes to cooling strategies.
     - Assess effects of different control strategies such as group control, control-on-supply or pressure
        control.
     - Test performance of a new ACU design such as EC fans in the floor void or variable-speed drives.

  Trouble shooting

     - Diagnose the cause of overheating equipment.
     - Test potential fixes before deployment.

 Facility Management

     - Assess the impact of taking an ACU down for maintenance or simulate an ACU failure scenario.
     - Identifying potential energy savings – for example, identify bypass air and ACU short-circuiting plus
        test potential fixes before deployment.
     - Periodically assess whether the facility is being overcooled and reconsider energy efficiency
        measures that could be adopted.
     - Test whether cooling set-points can be turned up to make cooling system more efficient without
        compromising resilience.

Integrating Products

6SigmaFM integrates with other parts of the 6SigmaDCsuite to enable the simulation and assessment of various aspects of the facility before any changes are implemented:                                      

  6SigmaCooling – 6SigmaDC CFD solver for prediction of thermal conditions and airflow paths;
  6SigmaRack – pre-test IT layout inside a cabinet;
  6SigmaPower – power configuration and SPOF analysis;
  6SigmaWeight – check loading on the raised floor;
  6SigmaRoom – major design changes to the infrastructure of the facility;
  6SigmaITM – (primarily for IT managers) view rooms being managed by 6SigmaFM to enable effective
     separation of tasks and responsibilities and raise Change Requests (CRs) in order to service them.
     Typical CR actions include:

     - Adding and removing items from the Store Room;
     - Installing, decommissioning or moving, equipment around a facility;
     - Changing one item for another;
     - General maintenance.

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