Ideal Floor Plan For Data Center

Floor Planning of a Data Center is as much important as other factors like power supply and cooling

. All the equipments should be placed in a managed manner to modify the cooling and air flow without disturbing the working environment and still providing 100% accessibility and scalability. Planning the floor plans for a Data center is not a Childs job and need perfect assessment of top down and elevation approach. The whole plan starts with planning and pre-designing in order to create an capable Data Center floor. If you invest at this point it will save you a lot of time in the future. Before jumping into the serious business you should figure out your budget needed for the equipment wanted in the computer rooms, electrical rooms and mechanical rooms. Only after confirming the above steps real construction work begins. Two most common and important methodologies used in floor planning of Data Center are :

Top Down View

Deciding equipment size, equipment location, work flow process and essential space area these factors should be examined by the designers. Designers used Computational Fluid Analysis (CFD) using it on the area below and above the floor. Technicians seek help from CFD to find out where to place perforated tiles, Computer equipment, CRAC equipment and rack location units. To facilitate hitches in both under and over airflow various kind of softwares are used in the process. Which part of the Data Center should be used for high, low and medium density of the equipments is also decided by the use CFD. Only when all the above steps are confirmed Hot and Cold aisle set up is executed. In this kind of set up air is delivered via perforated tiles. Heat generated in the Hot aisle is transferred to the CRAC units using ceiling height. Many parts in the Data Center are low density RLU zones which need only raised floor cooling options others, there are some areas which need medium density cooling and ultra high density server needs cabinet cooling solution.

Elevation View

Three most important Data Center floor plans are layout above raised floor, layout below raised floor and layout above dropped ceiling. Designers begin with dividing the floor. At this step a sub floor which can be used as a drainage system used for remove possible leaks from sensible equipments. Even the cooling pipes and Power cables must go through sub floor. Data Cables are installed at the top of the raised floor. Some free space should be included in the raised floor for undisturbed flow of air. Ceiling height should be more than 9 feet and all the equipment should be placed at least 18 inches away from the ceiling.

Next layout is above the dropped ceiling. Plumping and water should be strictly banned from passing over the room. Most suggestible is to avoid these pipes in the building and place them somewhere in the perimeter. This will reduce the possibility of water leak which can done serious damage to the computer equipments. Dropped ceilings presents an optional cooling by allowing the air to flow through ceiling plenum based on the requirements of the cooling.

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