Chapter 3: Data center cooling

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Chapter 3: Data center cooling

This guide offers the latest advice from data center cooling experts. Stop wasting your data center cooling capacity; learn about high density cooling technologies in this guide.

Cooling blade servers and high density servers:

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  • Heat relief for data centers using blades

    Tip -  Blade servers are hot—literally—and creating a living hell for some data centers. As data center managers stew over the problem created by these high-density servers, vendors are scrambling (and finding huge revenue opportunities) to develop...

  • Egenera rolls out new blades, liquid cooled chassis

    26 Jan 2006

    Article -  Blade server specialist Egenera unveiled a new line of high-performance blade servers, as well as a new chassis option, that uses liquid cooling technology from Liebert. This is the second server vendor in recent months to invest in liquid cooling.

  • Will consolidating onto blades reduce heating loads?

    Ask the Expert -  Consolidating to high density blade servers can be a big step towards streamlining your data center. But data center managers need to research how to cool these servers. Bob Macfarlane explains.

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Data center cooling metrics and design:

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  • Cooler rooms or cooler servers?

    Tip -  As the data center faces a warming trend, what makes more sense: designing a room that stays cooler or designing a cooler server?

  • New cooling technologies could cut energy costs

    Tip -  Energy costs and demands for more power are skyrocketing in the data center. But there are new technologies and design strategies that could help you cut down the price of your juice.

  • Fears of cooling with outside air may be unfounded

    04 Dec 2006

    Article -  The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will finish a study by the end of the year looking at the potential benefits and drawbacks of using outside air to cool a data center.

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Data center liquid cooling:

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  • Utility offers rebate for liquid cooling systems

    28 Nov 2006

    Article -  Avista Corp., a Spokane, Wash.-based utility is offering rebates to data centers that buy liquid cooling systems and other energy saving technologies. The first product to qualify for the rebate is ISR's SprayCool M-Series.

  • Will liquid cooling work for high-heat producing hardware?

    Tip -  With recent technological advancements delivering high-heat producing hardware, the need for more efficient cooling methods is more evident than ever before. This has caused users to look beyond traditional, HVAC-based methods to a new generation of...

  • Liquid cooling book promotes standardization

    26 Sep 2006

    Article -  The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers publishes a book on data center liquid cooling technologies that could help standardization.

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Mitigating data center hotspots:

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  • Liquid-cooled refrigerants solve density hot spots

    20 Dec 2005

    Article -  Experts say traditional data center cooling, such as raised flooring, isn't cutting it in some situations. As a result, data center pros with density headaches, like Virginia Tech's Terascale Computing Facility, are using supplemental liquid cooling.

  • Hot spots not so hot in the data center

    Ask the Expert -  What are some of the options for blocking the holes cut in tiles for cables? Expert Robert McFarlane answers.

  • Backup CRAC: Avoid a summer server meltdown

    07 Jul 2005

    Article -  Backup CRAC: Summer is the season for unpredictable power outages. You've backed up your servers, but what about the air conditioners? Without cool air, your servers will sizzle.

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Raised floor cooling:

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  • Block those holes!

    30 Nov 2005

    Column -  This column originally appeared on TechTarget's Expert Answer Center as a post in Robert McFarlane's blog. Robert served as the on-demand expert on the Expert Answer Center for two weeks in October to November 2005, during which he was available to...

  • Data center raised floors and ceiling height

    Ask the Expert -  In this question, Bob McFarlane explains the benefits and drawbacks to different data center designs pertaining to cooling and airflow.

  • Raised floors and efficiency: Controlling cooling matters

    03 Nov 2005

    Article -  Cooling IT equipment is the No. 1 energy hog in the data center. One of the biggest pain points for IT pros is managing air flow from raised flooring. Will getting rid of the raised floor help?

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