1. Presented by Paul Almond – Datacentre UK
Cooling Solutions
Presented by
Paul Almond – Datacentre UK

2. Energy costs are rising
The Facts
Energy costs are rising
The cost to power and cool server room equipment
now exceeds the purchase cost on a 3-year life-cycle, based on a traditional server room / data centre configuration.
Fact 1: Power and cooling costs increasingly limit scalability of your data center, and consume an ever-larger share of budget resources.
The 3-year energy cost of highly dense servers is roughly equivalent to their acquisition cost.1 Fact 2:  Advances in compute density, such as blade servers, have resulted in highly dense servers that require significantly more power and cooling than traditional server configurations.
Industry analyst Gartner wrote, “The leading server vendors recognize the problems associated with highly dense hardware and, in particular, with the rapid uptake of high-density blades.  As such, they are attempting to develop solutions to deal with those problems.”2
Fact 3:  The power and associated costs to cool the datacenter can be as much or more than the cost of powering the IT equipment (servers, storage, and networking). [3]
A study by HP and The Uptime Institute suggests that in a majority of the world's data centers 63% of a datacenter’s power is associated with the power of cooling the IT equipment. 4
While the rest of the industry is narrowly focused on only one aspect of the problem -- reducing the power of chips and other components, HP is also addressing the need to reduce the power requirements and costs associated with cooling the datacenters themselves. 
Fact 4:  Reducing the energy required to cool a datacenter can result in significant cost savings (and reduction in CO2 emissions) or the ability to deploy more IT equipment in the same space -- or a mixture of the two.  

3. Cooling Solutions
Source IDC

4. • Create more efficient rack space
Cooling Solutions
The Aim
•  Reduce energy usage
•  Create more efficient rack space
The government will be introducing a carbon tax in 2009
All companies will have to report power usage by law

5. Industry Studies
Recent studies reveal that data centre power densities have increased ten-fold in the last 10 years
and that cooling represents upwards of 60-70% of the total data centre power spend for the majority of customers. These costs are driven by the data centre power requirements and the volume of cooling airflow required
Source HP
Why
The onset of high density computing including blades

6. What are the cooling challenges in today’s data centres?
Agility – the ability of a system to adapt to change – increasing and unpredictable power densities driven by ever-changing business requirements.
Availability – to eliminate hotspots and vertical temperature gradients at the face of the rack and to assure redundancy when required.
Lifecycle costs – to optimise capital investment and available space – the ability to accelerate speed of deployment and lower maintenance costs, increase ROI and maximise operational efficiency.
Manageability – Simple and intuitive configuration – predictive failure analysis and provision of cooling performance data.
Serviceability – Decrease mean time to recover – simplify complexity – easier service procedures – minimise multi-vendor solutions.

7. Cooling Solutions Typical 1U Server Typical 7U Blade Server
32oC
Typical 1U Server
75.5 l/s/kW
22oC
49.6 l/s/kW
( kW)
Typical 7U Blade Server
22oC
38-42oC
Blade servers both offer increased computing density and a significant performance per watt benefit. These inherent advantages of blades when matched with advanced power and cooling infrastructure, can assist to drive out waste in the physical environment and drive up efficiencies.
It is not only direction of airflow that must be taken into consideration, but also
temperature rise across the server and the air volume required by the server fans.
Blade servers are the most electrically efficient form of server. Available blade types for a
given blade server system can vary dramatically in performance and power consumption

8. Room Based Cooling Existing Configurations
The predominant architecture for cooling data centres since the inception of the mainframe has been raised floor air delivery from perimeter computer room air conditioners (CRAC).
At lower densities (1 – 5 kW / rack), adequate cooling is provided to IT equipment, despite the mixing of air throughout the room.
Major obstacle is the length scale of air delivery
- distance between cooling units and heat load make it difficult to properly remove the heat generated from IT equipment without mixing with supply air
- results in hot spots and a complicated design approach to air distribution

9. Cooling Solutions

10. Row Based Cooling Existing Configurations
Place the air conditioning units in the row of rack enclosures.
Incorporating a hot / cold aisle design, heat is removed from the hot aisle as it is dispelled from the IT equipment. The hot air is then cooled and discharged to the cold aisle.
Inherent energy efficiency advantages:
- fan power reduction to move the air
- shift in mindset from cold air supply to heat removal
- removal of heat before it has a chance to mix with surrounding air in the room makes the remaining areas in the room a large available volume of supply air
- length scale for air delivery is only a few metres or less (varies on number of racks) rather than tens of metres
Note: In-row cooling architecture, as depicted, utilises a free air discharge without ducting or any containment of hot or cold air streams.

11. Close Coupled Cooling Cooling Solutions
Eliminate the supply air from the equation
Capture all the heat where it is generated, from the hot aisle
Remove the heat before it mixes with air streams outside the hot aisle
No obstructions to block the air path
Avoid complex engineering
Variable speed fans to match cooling capacity to power load in each aisle
Room temperatures will be easier to maintain with less warm air escaping the hot aisle
Close Coupled Cooling

12. Cooling Solutions
How do I cool my
data centre for FREE?

13. Free-Cooling Chillers
Cooling Solutions
Free-Cooling Chillers
Use ambient air to cool the warm return water
Ideally suited to new designs, but free-cooling options can be retro-fitted to existing installations

14. Cooling Solutions
TRADITIONAL Chiller
Water Circuit Schematic

15. Free-Cooling Solutions
Extra bits
FREE-COOLING Chiller
Water Circuit Schematic

16. Free-Cooling Solutions
– Average
Air Temperature

17. Free-Cooling Solutions
– Air Temperature
vs Free-Cooling %

18. Free-Cooling Chillers
Free-Cooling Solutions
Free-Cooling Chillers
Air cooled systems: typically 100kW-1200kW
Uses condenser fans only (i.e. no compressors) to pre-cool the returning chilled water (in free cooling mode)
Compressors only run if the required leaving water temperature cannot be achieved with free-cooling system
Lower compressor run time = less maintenance and less down- time
Capital payback typically <18 months EVEN FOR WORST CASE N+1: real bottom-line savings thereafter
Maximised benefits using elevated chilled water temperatures, e.g. Hot Aisle Containment applications

19. Free-Cooling Chillers
Free-Cooling Solutions
Free-Cooling Chillers
What do I need to do to be able to utilise free cooling?
Create predictable air flow
Capture and Contain hot air to maximise return air temp
Raise entering water temperature
Water is 350% more efficient than air at transferring and
transporting heat

20. Air Containment
Raised Floor Airflow

21. Row Based Cooling With HAC
Air Containment
Row Based Cooling With HAC .

22. Air Containment
Hot Aisle Airflow

23. Free-Cooling Cost Saving Summary
Free-Cooling Solutions
Free-Cooling Cost Saving Summary
120kW N+1 installation with Free-Cooling Chillers
Achieve pay-back of the cost difference to standard
chillers in <10 months for one machine; 18 months for worst- case, two-machine N+1 installations
Typically achieve 100% Free-Cooling of data centre 26%
(>3 months) of the year
Achieve a useable level of Free-Cooling for >75%
of the year
Based on UK average daily temperatures measured in the SE region, 1997 to 2006 inclusive

24. Alternative options for energy efficient cooling solutions
Turbocor Chillers
Very high efficiency, especially at lower loads
Centrifugal compressor with magnetic bearings eliminates oil and the maintenance / efficiency losses associated with traditional systems
Combine with FREE-COOLING for maximum effect

25. Turbocor Summary Benefits
Cooling Solutions
Turbocor Summary Benefits
Government ECA approval status
Excellent full load energy efficiency
Further improved part load performance
Lower energy bills, reduced carbon footprint
Virtually no mechanical wear
Unrivalled reliability
No oil to degrade the system over time
Low noise
No vibration
Full remote monitoring capability
30% lower overall life cycle costs

26. Free Cooling - If you’re still not convinced...
Cooling Solutions
Free Cooling - If you’re still not convinced...
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27. The Bottom Line Cooling Solutions Two major benefits for business
The Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) Scheme and the Energy Technology List
Energy savings
Products listed on the ETL are highly energy efficient, and should produce significant long-term financial benefits by reducing your energy bills and Climate Change Levy payments.

28. Cooling Solutions
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