CoolControl Solid Aisle Containment

CoolControl Solid Aisle Containment

There is no question that cold aisle containment is one of the most effective ways to increase cooling efficiency, and thus energy efficiency, in data centres and server rooms. According to BITKOM, Gartner and the best practice recommendations of the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres, you can potentially reduce energy consumption by up to 30% if the cold aisle is completely separated from the warm aisle, a practice known as cold aisle containment. This prevents the cold air generated for cooling the rack hardware from mixing with warm exhaust air which would gradually increase the temperature and can only be counteracted by increasing the output of the air-conditioning units. What sounds simple and plausible in theory is often not as easy to put into practice structurally: even though many standard solutions for aisle containment can be installed easily, quickly and relatively affordably in a homogenous environment with the same rack dimensions or types, conditions like these are actually extremely rare in reality.

Most server rooms have evolved over time to form a diverse rack landscape with different manufacturers, dimensions, heights, positions and gaps in the individual rack rows. Daxten now offers individually customised and scalable solid aisle containment solutions for exactly these kinds of environments.