CoolControl Quickfix Blanking Panel

CoolControl Quickfix Blanking Panel

One best practice for optimising the cooling efficiency in data centres according to the recommendations of BITKOM, EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Efficiency and Gartner is to securely seal off the unoccupied rack units in racks. This prevents air emitted by the servers to the warm aisle from recirculating through the rack back to the cold aisle and thus effectively prevents thermal imbalances and hotspots. The risk of heat-related system malfunctions or even complete hardware failures is reduced to a minimum. According to Gardner, the environmental temperature can be reduced by up to 5.6 degrees simply by using panels to separate cold and warm air zones in rack environments - this considerably reduces cooling system output and lowers energy consumption significantly.