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Design engineers for data centres now need a way of predicting the effect of changes in heat load and distribution and how alternative cooling solutions will perform. Future Facilities 6SigmaDC suite provides a set of tools to create a Virtual Facility to address the issue.
Perhaps,
more importantly the challenge is very different to cooling electronics
once the data centre has been built. Unlike a box of electronics
which remains almost constant after design and production, a data
centre is almost a living entity in that its make up and performance
are for ever changing in normal use. The Virtual Facility by its
very nature is an ideal tool to address this ongoing change.
The 6SigmaDC product suite is a software tool designed specifically for Data
Centre Designers, IT and Facility Managers, Field Engineers and others who
have an interesting designing and or maintaining a data centre. The suite of
programs comprises a set of tools each designed to play a role in the design
and management of data centres and data centre equipment with particular emphasis
on thermal management.
The
integrated thermal prediction tool or solver can be used:
* At rack / cabinet level to aid in configuring cabinets with the rack mounted
equipment;
* At room level to configure the facility / room, its overall constructions
and mechanical infrastructure
* As a conceptual / layout and test tool for the room / facilities IT equipment;
* For ongoing change management of equipment and configuration so that changes
can be tested before implementation.
Creation of a thermal model of a facility implicitly results in a full inventory of the room including cabinets, IT equipment, power systems, cooling systems and ventilation grilles, in fact almost everything in the facility.
The 3-dimensional model created forms an ideal tool for communication with management and other interested parties or indeen as a training tool to introduce new personnel to the facility without risk.
Key features:
* Easy to use graphical user interface with full access to create and change the architectural geometry, cooling / ventilation, power and IT configurations;
* Can read data from other IT management tools and CAD;
* Extensive libraries of IT equipment, cabinets, cooling units…
* Drag and drop capabilities for model construction and update;
* Provides a complete view of the inventory;
* Predicts Rack / Cabinet cooling performance;
* Predicts grille flows; Predicts the room airflow and consequent environment thermal environment for the equipment;
* Customised views of results data including the overall thermal environment;
* Management software provides full history of changes from the past;
* Management software provides the ability to consider options for the future and plan accordingly.
different aspects of Data Centre design and management:
6SigmaRack:
6SigmaRoom:
6SigmaFM:If the equipment stays cool in the virtual facility model without affect other equipment already installed then you can have much more confidence that the configuration you propose won’t put your facility at risk. more>>