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ideas for isolating air flow in datacenter cage area

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Hi Guys,

I work at a small datacenter that has an area for cages. They are 100-500sq ft in size.

For the most part, the overall room is air conditioned and as needed we will run direct ventilation to a cage area to deliver on the spot a/c.

We're trying to think of ways to better isolate cold/hot air. Something like, hanging plexiglass on the outside of the cages to seal them in and install exhaust fans..

Any ideas? I think it would have been better to put up drywall and frame in suites rather than cage areas that have open airflow, but that's not the case here.
 
TechBoyJK said:
Hi Guys,

Any ideas? I think it would have been better to put up drywall and frame in suites rather than cage areas that have open airflow, but that's not the case here.
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Listen to SunnyD... get HVAC guy in there. But to me it seems like a waste. Is the current AC not cooling down the whole data center? You add a whole bunch of individual coolers.. you are going to have to monitor all of those or one of you walled in areas could get hot.
 
I don't know what a cage is... is that like a rack? Anyways, if you've got hot and cold isles, they sell plastic sheets you can hang at the front and back of the isle to seal it off. Alternatively you could move to in-isle air conditioning, which is really badass and expensive.
 
skace said:
I don't know what a cage is... is that like a rack? Anyways, if you've got hot and cold isles, they sell plastic sheets you can hang at the front and back of the isle to seal it off. Alternatively you could move to in-isle air conditioning, which is really badass and expensive.
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A datacenter will generally be a large floor space. Some of this area will be sectioned off by fencing to create "cages" that are secure. You then purchase either open floor space or cage space to setup your racks and equipment.

OP, I'm no HVAC expert, but I'm willing to bet that it's more efficient, and therefore cost effective, to use larger machines to cool down a big area. Sectioning off each area separately will mean lots of smaller cooling units, which tend to be less efficient, and additional ducting which will decrease the efficiency and run your higher costs.

Talk to HVAC experts. But I'm assuming that from seeing the setup of the datacenters I've worked in that the above is the case.
 
Id need to see what you are working with to give a better answer, but typically you want to face the backs of servers at each other (hot aisle) and have exhaust in the ceiling at that point and have floor AC in the front of them, that way they suck in the cool air and blow out the hot without having the next row suck in said hot air to blow to yet another row to make it even hotter.
 
crownjules said:
A datacenter will generally be a large floor space. Some of this area will be sectioned off by fencing to create "cages" that are secure. You then purchase either open floor space or cage space to setup your racks and equipment.
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Oh, I've never worked in a shared data center so I guess that's my confusion. No cages in a private one.
 
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