Upsite Services are engineered solutions that promote computer room airflow optimization and enhance data center energy efficiency. Our suite of services are designed to increase the overall health of your data center cooling environment with a step by step approach.
All Upsite Services:
• Provide actionable solutions for increasing data center reliability and energy efficiency
• Optimize current airflow infrastructure to increase cooling capacity
• Enable precision cooling to reduce or eliminate hotspots
• Dramatically reduce costly bypass airflow
• Support data center best practices and ASHRAE compliance
Understand the science and issues behind effective data center cooling with KoldSeminarSM, a half-day, on-site seminar. The comprehensive session educates key stakeholders from both Facilities and IT departments. KoldSeminar includes a data center profile, a cooling orientation, and practical solutions for high-density data center cooling issues.
Highlights:
An estimate of data center cooling efficiency/inefficiency
A walk-through of your data center to estimate relevant measures of
cooling health
The identification of horizontal and vertical hotspot zones
A survey of computer room layout comparisons to industry recommendations and best practices
A cooling orientation that includes computer room environmental issues, precision cooling, control of bypass airflow, Cold and Hot Aisle, and cooling unit placement
Discussion of practical solutions for high-density data center cooling issues
KoldCheck
KoldCheckSM diagnostic services allow you to regain control of your cooling environment by taking a closer look at your data center infrastructure. Based on the level of your needs, Upsite data center experts evaluate your computer room to determine ways to optimize your existing cooling investment.
Upon completion of the on-site review, Upsite engineers present a comprehensive report with data and recommendations to solve existing and projected problems cost effectively.
Comprehensive Analysis of Key Data Center Conditions
Cooling conditions: A review of existing cooling conditions, such as a survey of rack/cabinet temperatures, measurement of room temperature and humidification patterns, analysis of room recirculation patterns, and inspection of cooling units.
Airflow conditions: Analysis of current airflow conditions, including perforated tile layout, underfloor airflow, perimeter breaches, and raised-floor bypass area and bypass airflow volume.
Critical power conditions: A look at current power conditions that includes a comparison of power consumption vs. system capacity, indentifies power distribution limits, quantifies rack utilization, and identifies raised-floor bypass area and bypass airflow volume.
General room conditions: An overall assessment that surveys the make-up air system, equipment layout, cabling management, and room contamination (including debris and dust).
KoldTune
Get more cooling capacity from your existing data center infrastructure with KoldTuneSM remediation services. KoldTune goes a step further than KoldCheckSM by solving identified cooling-related problems, which can help you improve the stability, reliability, and efficiency of the data center raised-floor environment.
After a KoldTune, your data center will be able to cool more IT equipment with the existing cooling infrastructure and operate more efficiently.
Highlights
Remediation plan: After an initial on-site visit to collect baseline information, Upsite designs a remediation work plan and assigns an engineering team.
Airflow rebalancing: The Upsite team provides complete airflow rebalancing and custom solutions for sealing all reasonably accessible unmanaged openings in the raised floor.
Perforated tile adjustment: The team adjusts the number and location of perforated tiles.
Cooling unit adjustment: The team recalibrates set points and humidity controls on cooling units, and possibly turns off excess capacity.
Airflow recirculation: The team addresses room and rack airflow recirculation.
General tuning recommendations: The team provides recommendations for general tuning of the raised-floor environment.
Post-remediation analysis: The team analyzes the room after remediation to capture improved conditions.
Valuable reporting: Upon completion, Upsite provides a report that details efficiency improvements, a model of plenum airflow, and recommended practices for future equipment installation and configuration.
KoldProfile
Learn how to improve your IT equipment reliability and optimize your critical physical infrastructure in just 1 to 2 hours (depending on data center size) with a KoldProfileSM service visit.
The service uses the following three measurements (based on standards from ASHRAE and the Uptime Institute) to determine data center cooling health:
Data Center Hotspots—Examine temperature and relative humidity to determine hotspots
Bypass Airflow—Monitor airflow to regain lost conditioned airflow
Cooling Margin Available—Find out where/how cooling can be optimized
After the survey on the data center floor, you will receive:
On-site verbal discussion of findings and recommendations
Written KoldProfile report detailing findings and recommendations
