How to improve the efficiency of DC in the process of operation

Improving the efficiency of engineering equipment and improving the performance of operating solutions remains a typical challenge facing owners of DCs around the world.

Motivation to improve energy efficiency

The operators of DC also turn to increasing energy efficiency when the cooling capacity of the machine room ceases to be enough for them or when the business, being guided by considerations of competitiveness, demands to improve energy efficiency by so many percent.

It contributes to a more effective response to the aggravation of the need to control the locations of IT equipment, as well as to control information about who worked with him and when. Stimulates and the need for effective utilization of DC resources and forecasting it at least six months - a year in advance.

According to Schneider Electric experts, today on the IT equipment, the owners of the DC are trying to maintain the temperature of 23-25 C. These values

are not monitored indoors, but directly at the entrances to racks with IT equipment.

Correction of deficiencies in the selection and organization of elements, components and components of the engineering infrastructure identified during the operation also provides an opportunity to increase efficiency. Despite the fact that each data center has its own history and features of development, we propose to combine deficiencies in the engineering infrastructure into several characteristic groups:

• features related to the air distribution system from air conditioning units to racks with IT equipment;

• features associated with the flow of cold and hot air in the area of racks with IT equipment;

• features of disconnection of terminal IT equipment in cabinets.

He proposes to link the causes of these shortcomings with the history of the development of operational services of the DC, the change of responsible departments, the ineffective interactions of the various divisions of the operational department, and the high dynamics of the development of the tasks that are assigned to the DC.