In a presentation at the Afcom event, Domenic Alvaro, director of availability consulting and services at American Power Conversion Corp., came up with a number of possible solutions to this dilemma.
These include using a technique called "hot-aisle-cold-aisle" in data center design, which can help channel hot air away from the servers. Alvaro also suggested the use of hot air scavenging systems that collect hot air at the point of generation and route it directly to an air conditioning unit.
But, crucially, users should be prepared to balance their blade server load across the data center. Alvaro says this can be attained by interspersing high-power servers with those that consume less power.
One of the big drivers of this issue, is new high-power blade servers that use as much as 15kW of power. The 15kW blade servers can be purchased and installed in a single rack today. However, Alvaro warned that some users will attempt to install this equipment in data centers where the industry average load is 1.4kW per rack.
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