Successful
High Density Deployment
Resources and Solutions for
Business and IT Trends Drive High
Density Network-critical Physical
Infrastructure Challenges
Business needs are driving IT challenges as never before. Calls for increased IT productivity,
adaptable real-time enterprises and IT business value are an example.
To increase IT productivity, companies are being asked to get more from existing resources
and assets, to reduce costs through efficiency, and to control overall IT costs. The drive
towards adaptable real-time enterprises necessitates access to real-time information in
order to optimally manage critical decision-making. To increase IT business value, companies
must align IT and business goals, support new revenue sources, and create competitive
advantage through IT.
As these business drivers cascade down through organizations, they can dramatically impact
IT departments, presenting new challenges for IT project managers. In response, companies
may deploy new technologies—like blade servers— or modify the IT environment through
server consolidation.
“Doing business with
APC provides you
These kinds of changes can have a significant effect on the Network-critical Physical
Infrastructure (NCPI). NCPI is the support structure of all highly available networks. It
comprises power, cooling, racks and physical structure, security and fire protection, cabling
and the management and servicing of these elements.
with the best of both
worlds: a trusted global
Deployment of high density applications (defined as over 3kW per rack) drive data center
requirements that require new approaches to NCPI. Many questions and concerns are
raised, such as those below.
partner to protect the
productivity of your
“Do I know the best practices for high density deployment?”
network end-to-end,
UNDERSTANDING KEY CHALLENGES, CONSIDERATIONS
& DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES – page 3-5
and robust research
and development
“Do I know the capabilities of my company’s data center?
Do I know how to optimize it?”
investments to
ADDRESSING THESE NCPI ISSUES – page 6
ensure state-of“Do I have to oversize power and cooling to address high density
requirements?”
the-art solutions
as your networking
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requirements evolve.”
“If my company’s data center has available power and cooling
capacity, why am I experiencing hot spots and cooling issues?”
Rodger B. Dowdell Jr.
President and Chief
Executive Officer
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“Can I deploy high density fast enough or do I have to slow our
technology adoption?”
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“Do I have to build special environments to deploy new technologies such as high density?”
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BEST PRACTICES – KEY DESIGN CHALLENGES
There is a range of best practices shown here
including key design challenges, deployment
strategies and key considerations.
As high density deployments increase, they
create significant challenges for existing and new
data center environments, especially when it
comes to supporting the new power and cooling
requirements and distribution.
Conventional data centers that use legacy power
and cooling approaches are limited in their ability
to support high density deployments.
Overall Challenges
When deploying high density, you must understand the overall design challenges which are critical
to address for successful deployment.
• Properly measuring the power density In order to provide
the right power and cooling infrastructure, you must measure
the power density accurately. Depending on the method used,
calculations can differ dramatically. For the most accurate
assessment, measure the power density at the rack—rather than
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row or room—level.
• Understanding the drivers of data center costs A widely held
belief is that data center costs are driven by area. If this were the
case, reducing the area through compaction would reduce costs.
However, compaction beyond approximately 4 to 5 kW per rack does
not result in any further reduction of the total area. This suggests
that increasing compaction just through increasing density without
a fundamental reduction in power consumption is not cost effective.
To realize the full benefits of high density applications, you need to
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reduce power consumption versus increasing power density.
• Identifying existing constraints Existing data centers may have
hard constraints that cannot be changed or may be prohibitively
expensive to modify. Areas to review include:
- Precision power capacity to understand any power capacity
limitations.
- Precision cooling capacity to understand any cooling capacity
limitations.
- Floor space limits which may force certain design approaches.
- No ceiling plenum which may eliminate design options.
- Raised floor restrictions which may constrain air distribution
capability.
- Weight restrictions which may limit floor loading.
Assessing the existing conditions and understanding the constraints
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is essential for successful deployment.
Rack-level Challenges
Not surprisingly, the power and cooling requirements at the rack level differ for high density applications. When deploying high density, several rack-level design challenges must be addressed, all of which are critical to successful deployment
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(including cooling and power requirements).
• Cooling requirements (supplying cool air to the enclosure)
Legacy data center design approaches (using existing floor tiles
and data center layouts) may have limitations and therefore may
not practically support providing cooling for high density applications over 6kW per rack.
• Cooling requirements (removing the hot exhaust from the
enclosure) Just as there are limitations with supplying cool air,
there are the same limitations with removing the hot exhaust air.
Designing above these limitations with conventional approaches
may require specialized engineering.
• Cooling requirements (keeping hot exhaust air away from
equipment air intake) In keeping the hot exhaust air away
from the air intake, the shortest supply path for air to reach the
IT equipment air intake is the recirculation path from the equipment’s own exhaust. An essential part of data center design is to
recognize that the higher velocities in high density applications
cause airflow problems.
• Power requirements High density applications will cause the
need for additional cabling which, when using a legacy data center
design such as raised floors, can be complicated and expensive.
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BEST PRACTICES – DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES
Five High Density
Deployment Strategies
There are five basic ways to deploy high density enclosures. Understanding these
strategies as well as the key challenges and considerations is critical to successful
deployment. These practical solutions for both new and existing data centers are
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shown here from simplest to most complex.
SPLIT EQUIPMENT AMONG ENCLOSURES
TO KEEP PEAK LOAD DOWN
1 Spread the Load
Application
Advantages
Existing data centers, when high density
equipment is a small fraction of the total load
Works anywhere, no planning needed
Essentially free in many cases
Disadvantages
High density equipment must be
spread out even more than the
second approach
Uses more floor space
Can cause data cabling issues
2 Borrowed Cooling
Application
PROVIDE AVERAGE COOLING CAPABILITY WITH RULES
TO ALLOW BORROWING OF UNDERUTILIZED CAPACITY
Advantages
Existing data centers, when high density
equipment is a small fraction of the total load
No new equipment needed
Essentially free in many cases
Disadvantages
Limited to about 2X the design power
density
Uses more floor space
Requires enforcement of complex rules
3 Supplemental Cooling
Application
Advantages
New construction or renovations
Mixed environment
High density where needed and when
needed
High density equipment location is not known
in advance
Deferred capital costs, high efficiency,
and good floor space utilization
4 Dedicated High Density Areas
Application
Disadvantages
Limited to about 10kW per enclosure
Racks and rooms must be designed in
advance to support this approach
CREATE A SPECIAL HIGH DENSITY ROW
OR ZONE WITHIN THE DATA CENTER
Advantages
New construction or renovations
Maximum density
Density 10-25kW per rack
Optimal floor space utilization, and high
efficiency
When requirement exists to co-locate high
density devices
5 Whole Room Cooling
Application
Disadvantages
Need to plan a high density area in
advance, or reserve space for it
Must segregate high density equipment
High density equipment does not need to
be spread out
PROVIDE HIGH DENSITY COOLING
CAPABILITY TO EVERY RACK
Advantages
Rare and extreme cases of large farms of high
density equipment with very limited physical
space
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PROVIDE AVERAGE COOLING CAPABILITY WITH PROVISION
FOR SUPPLEMENTAL COOLING EQUIPMENT
Handles all future scenarios
Disadvantages
Extreme capital and operating costs (up to
4X alternative method)
May result in extreme underutilization of
expensive infrastructure
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BEST PRACTICES – KEY CONSIDERATIONS
Avoidable Mistakes that
Compromise Cooling Performance
Most data centers and network rooms have a variety of basic
design and configuration flaws that prevent them from achieving
their potential cooling capacity and prevent them from delivering
cool air where it is needed.
These problems are generally unrecognized because data centers have
typically been operated at power densities well below their design values.
However, recent increases in the power density of new IT equipment are
pushing data centers to their design limits and revealing that many data
centers are incapable of providing effective cooling as expected. These areas
include:
CASE HISTORY
“The main issue
that threatened our
availability was the fact
that our existing UPS
was at 97% of its load
capacity. We needed
to replace it with a
solution that was cost
effective, which took
up minimal floor space,
and which could provide
• Air flow to the rack itself
adequate runtime. We
• Layout of racks
• Distribution of loads
needed an industrial
• Cooling settings
strength solution that
• Layout of air delivery and return vents
The avoidable mistakes can create hot-spots, decrease fault-tolerance and
efficiency, and reduce cooling capacity – compromising availability and
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increasing costs.
Identifying Basic Areas for Improvements
The existing conditions of a data center often include a number of improvements that should be identified and corrected before any further steps are
taken. These can include blanking panels, leaks, configurations, obstacles
and set-points. This basic data center hygiene should be completed since it
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affects the foundation for the high density deployment.
would scale with the
power demands of our
high-density servers. The
APC InfraStruXure™
architecture met all of
our demands without
breaking our budget…
We like InfraStruXure
because it’s a single,
fully integrated solution.
Racks and accessories provide a critical function in optimizing air flow.
We don’t have to deal
with a lot of mixed
components. If we have
a problem, we just
go to APC. Power will
no longer be an issue
for us as we grow our
The left shows the lack of blanking panels, resulting in hot exhaust air recirculating to the front
air intake. This can lead to a 15°F or 8°C rise in equipment temperature. On the right, the panels
(acting as barriers) help to increase air recirculation, reducing the intake of hot exhaust air.
Standardizing on the right rack, plus using blanking panels, can reduce recirculation and hotspots. Installation is easy and can be performed in almost any data center at very low cost.
Approaches Which are Not Recommended
These approaches for reducing air temperature are routinely taken by data
center operators but are flawed.
data center, because
InfraStruXure will
protect us regardless
of the weather and
will scale to meet our
needs as we continue to
expand our operations.”
• Reducing air temperature
• Replacing vented tile with floor grates
• Installing top-of-rack fans
• Isolating racks to an area that is open on all sides
These approaches do very little to help and often make matters worse
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– and are not recommended.
- John Tidwell,
IT Operations Manager
CGB Enterprises, Inc.
(not shown)
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- Steve Kitzinger,
Systems Administrator
CGB Enterprises, Inc.
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ADDRESSING HIGH DENSITY NCPI ISSUES
Unknown Data Center Capabilities? Assess Your Data Center
To prepare a data center environment to support high density
deployment, you must know its current capabilities.
To properly assess, these critical steps must be taken:
• Identify the constraints (if an existing facility).
• Identify user needs and preferences.
• Select and implement an appropriate deployment strategy.
• Determine the appropriate design approach for power
and cooling.
• Design, then subsequently implement, the result solution.
To best identify any constraints in the existing data center and
understand its capabilities, an assessment is recommended. All
data center operators should have a rudimentary knowledge of how
to assess a data center. This assessment may be superficial if the
number of blade servers is on the order of one rack of blades or less.
However, for deployments above this number, the depth and detail of
the assessment must increase substantially. For complicated, high2
cost or high-risk installations, a specialist should be consulted.
APC offers a Blade Readiness Assessment Service which provides a report outlining practical constraints, power and cooling enhancement options and optimal
high-density deployment strategies.
Oversized NCPI? “Right-size” Using Rack- and
Row-based Design Approaches
It isn’t necessary to oversize power and cooling capacity to address high
density requirements. This issue is better addressed by “right-sizing”
the power and cooling using rack- and row-based design approaches.
APC has performed studies that indicate that data centers
and network rooms are routinely oversized to three times
their required capacity. Oversizing drives excessive capital
and maintenance expenses, which are a substantial portion of
overall lifecycle cost. Most of this excess cost can be recovered
by using an NCPI architecture that provides cost-effective
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adaptability while providing high availability.
Again, measuring the power density on a rack-level is the most
accurate reflection of the required NCPI infrastructure required
to support it. High density NCPI should be flexible enough, and
appropriately sized, for deployment at a rack, row, or room level.
APC offers these “right-sized” solutions with rack-, row- and room-level designs.
InfraStruXure™ with Integrated Cooling helps address these cooling
challenges on a rack-, row- or room-level using an InRow precision cooling
system and an innovative new Cooling Distribution Unit. The easily deployed
in-row solutions eliminate the need for NCPI oversizing
often found in traditional high density designs.
The InfraStruXure InRow design has several key new
features which support right-sized high density deployment.
These solutions feature on-demand airflow and cooling, which
minimize the need for overcapacity and provide the required
cooling capacity when needed. In addition, the design features
a dual power input and hot swappable modules for maximum
availability.
In addition, the ground-breaking Cooling Distribution Unit, the first truly
modular cooling system, distributes chilled water similar to InfraStruXure’s
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easily configurable power distribution systems. The unit
distributes the chilled water via flexible, configurable
“coolant whips,” a design that allows for easy scalability,
providing a jointless piping system to eliminate failure
points found in traditional chilled water designs. This system
provides true cooling scalability allowing for easy installation
and simple future modifications (including expansion and
contraction of IT environments).
InfraStruXure Systems for High Density provide preintegrated solutions for single rack through to large data
center installations. This solution addresses NCPI issues
specific to high density applications facilitating quick
deployment without the need for special environments.
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ADDRESSING HIGH DENSITY NCPI ISSUES
Hot Spots and Cooling Issues? Make Cooling Predictable
Even when your data center has available power and cooling capacity, it can still have hot spots and other cooling issues. Cooling can be
made predictable by closely coupling power and cooling and neutralizing hot air.
The coupling and neutralizing principle works as follows:
Hot exhaust air (up to 30 kW per rack) is discharged into a contained
area (either an aisle or within the rack unit itself). The air is then
drawn through integrated cooling units to be discharged (either
back into the room or into the rack unit) at ambient temperature.
The capture of the hot air combined with the short air path allow
very high density cooling and also cause the system to exhibit high
efficiency. The performance of this type of system is completely
independent of the site (even in locations where only comfort air is
available) and can be installed on a hard or raised floor.
The in-row cooling, which couples the power and cooling,
minimizes the mixing of the cool air with the hot exhaust air
Legacy Approach
In-row Approach
In-row cooling shortens the path between the hot air and heat removal device
removing the unpredictable nature of cool air delivery.
and provides more efficient cooling versus traditional cooling
approaches. With this innovative approach, you can deploy high
density applications anywhere, allowing you to support high
density in a non-raised floor environment or optimize the existing
performance in a raised floor environment.
The containment systems
prevent the exhaust air
from mixing with the cool
air, allowing the hot air to
be neutralized. With high
density deployments, this
is critical since they have
both a higher velocity
as well as high volume of hot exhaust air. In tandem, the in-row
cooling used with the containment system is designed to support
power densities up to 30kW per rack.
Using hot aisle
or rack air
containment
systems prevent
the exhaust
air from mixing
with the cool air,
allowing the hot air
to be neutralized.
These types of solutions are significantly different than traditional
approaches and are designed to address the unique challenges
posed by high density.
APC offers several solutions that help increase cooling predictability.
InfraStruXure™ with Integrated Cooling and
Containment Systems provide self-contained solutions.
InfraStruXure InRow cooling solutions are available for
wiring closets and server rooms through to large data
centers. The system improves availability with its in-row
design and visual cooling kW display.
InfraStruXure Systems for High Density provide preintegrated solutions designed specifically to address
the cooling and power challenges associated with high
density. These systems are based on major OEM blade
server manufacturers and are ideal for installations that
require quick deployment.
The Hot Aisle Containment System encloses an entire
aisle for row- and room-level deployments. The Rack Air
Containment System uses the same containment principle
for rack-level deployments. This system captures all of the hot
IT equipment exhaust air by enclosing the rack or hot aisle, and
then immediately cools this air with an integrated in-row, rackbased air conditioner. The cool air is then discharged back into
the room at ambient temperature.
APC cooling products such as the Air Distribution Unit
and the new Air Removal Unit SX can increase cooling
predictability as well. They are ideal for addressing
isolated point problems such as hot spots which can
be found when deploying high density equipment in a
traditional data center design.
InfraStruXure Manager centralizes management of
your APC Network-critical Physical Infrastructure,
increasing availability by providing a floor-layout view
with kW per rack of the data center environment.
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The High Density Cooling Enclosure provides a rack-level,
self-contained system. The cooling unit is situated within the
enclosure, ensuring the maximum effectiveness of cool air
delivery to the rack-based equipment. Hot air is recycled to
the integral cooling unit and does not leave the cabinet. This
system enables high density in any environment, including
uncontrolled environments not designed for IT.
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ADDRESSING HIGH DENSITY NCPI
ISSUES
Limited Time to Deploy?
Need Special Environments?
Leverage Modular, Open
Standardized Building Blocks
It isn’t necessary to oversize power and cooling capacity, or build
special environments, to address high density requirements. This issue
is better addressed by using an NCPI architecture based on modular,
standardized building blocks.
Overall, standardization and its close relative, modularity, improve
business value by creating wide ranging benefits in NCPI that
streamline and simplify every process from initial planning to daily
operation. This approach increases availability and agility while
reducing total cost of ownership.
Whether you require fast deployment of high density applications
or feel the need to slow your technology adoption, this
requirement is best addressed by leveraging modular, open
standardized building blocks. This approach also eliminates the
need to build special environments.
Failure to adopt modular standardization as an NCPI design
strategy is costly on all fronts: unnecessary expense, avoidable
downtime, and lost business opportunity. What is the key?
The deployment strategy must be able to address today’s and
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tomorrow’s high density requirements.
APC leads the market in providing modular, standardized NCPI.
InfraStruXure™ is an easily scalable architecture
designed to meet changing needs and future expansion.
It integrates power, cooling, racks, management and
services, using a modular, open, building block design.
This flexible architecture can be scaled to accommodate
changing power densities. InfraStruXure’s modular design
is suitable for a variety of IT environments, from server
rooms to large data centers.
InfraStruXure now has pre-engineered Systems for High
Density as well as additional key features to improve high
density deployment. The system has expanded on its
modular approach, with our new Cooling Distribution Unit
as well as InRow units with modular fans to improve overall
availability with reduced mean-time-to-recovery.
Its architecture is based on standardized design platforms for
global deployment. The new NetShelter® SX rack design
provides a standard vendor-neutral foundation to integrate a
range of cooling solutions. Now any rack can become your
high density installation. This standardized approach enables
you to deploy an array of high density strategies.
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RESOURCES & SOLUTIONS FOR HIGH DENSITY DEPLOYMENTS
High Density Resources & Solutions
APC’s application-specific NCPI Resources and NCPI Solutions have been developed to help optimize high density deployment,
from the initial assessment through to integrated solutions.
APC’s NCPI Science Center advances knowledge about the design and
operation of NCPI in both IT industry and end-user communities. By providing
techniques, guidelines and tools, the NCPI Science Center empowers endusers to make the most effective planning decisions regarding their NCPI
investments. The NCPI Science Center has developed several white papers
that address key issues associated with high-density deployment.
Find answers to all of your
high density questions in
our application website.
Go to apc.com and click
any customer environment
(i.e. Large Corporations,
Small/Medium Business,
Government/Education,
Service Providers). Choose
“High Density Applications”
in the “View Our Application
Solutions” section.
APC also has application-specific NCPI solutions to support successful highdensity deployments. APC has solutions to address all aspects of the NCPI
foundation for power densities up through 30kW per rack.
BLADE READY™ Program Assures Peace of Mind
APC’s BLADE READY™ Program unites complementary NCPI technologies to deliver products, solutions and services for blade NCPI
environments. Blade server power densities exceed the power and cooling capacities of virtually all data centers and produce a tremendous
amount of heat. They also present unique challenges to the interoperability of your Network-critical Physical Infrastructure (NCPI). To ease your
blade implementation and enable operational excellence, look for industry vendors that carry the BLADE READY™ logo. To learn more: Visit
www.BladeReady.com
Data Center University™: Education Where You Want It
APC’s new Data Center University program offers online, on-demand courses in Data Center Design, Build and Operations (DCDBO). The one-hour
courses, offered at www.datacenteruniversity. com, are designed for IT professionals, engineers, facilities directors and others involved with the
management of data centers. Now organizations and individuals can ensure they are up to speed on the latest infrastructure issues, including
power, cooling, availability, racks, blade servers, VoIP, physical security, fire protection, site selection, NCPI management and more. Classroom
and certification programs are in the works for 2006. To learn more: Visit www.datacenteruniversity.com
White Paper Footnotes
1 - APC White Paper 46 “Cooling Strategies for Ultra-High Density Racks and Blade Servers”
Cooling Strategies
for Ultra-High
Density Racks and
Blade Servers
2 - APC White Paper 125 “Strategies for Deploying Blade Servers in Existing Data Centers”
3 - APC White Paper 49 “Avoidable Mistakes That Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms”
4 - APC White Paper 42 “Ten Steps to Solving Cooling Problems Caused by High Density Server Deployment”
5 - APC White Paper 37 “Avoiding Costs from Oversizing Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure”
6 - APC White Paper 116 “Standardization and Modularity in Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure”
7 - APC White Paper 117 “Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure: Optimizing Business Value”
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APC HIGH DENSITY SOLUTIONS
Integrated NCPI System
Architecture
up to 30 kW per rack
• InfraStruXure Systems for High Density
Applications: An integrated InfraStruXure
solution designed specifically for high
density deployments - available in rack-,
row- and room-level solutions.
• InfraStruXure Solutions: An NCPI architecture
with integrated power, cooling,
management and services in a rackoptimized design for server rooms and
small, medium and large data centers.
Power
3-4, 4-6 kW per rack
• Symmetra LX: High performance,
redundant power protection with
scalable power and runtime for spaceconstrained server rooms, and voice
and data networks.
• Symmetra PX: High-performance,
redundant power protection with
scalable power and runtime for data
centers.
6-30 kW per rack
• Symmetra PX: See description above.
• Symmetra MW: High performance,
redundant power protection with
scalable power and runtime for data
centers and facilities.
Cooling – Supplemental
Solutions
3-4 kW per rack
• Air Distribution Unit: Supplemental to
existing cooling system (raised floor
required).
4-6, 6-7 kW per rack
• Air Removal Unit SX: Supplemental to existing cooling system
(up to 16.5 kW).
Cooling – Integrated Solutions
• InfraStruXure InRow RC: In-row cooling solution for Data
Centers. New in-row cooling systems offers predictable
cooling to the IT environment. These systems closely couple
cooling with the heat load which eliminates mixing and hot air
recirculation into sensitive IT equipment.
up to 30 kW per rack
3-4, 4-6 kW per rack
• InfraStruXure InRow SC: In-row cooling solution for Server
Rooms (up to 5 kW). New in-row cooling systems offers
predictable cooling to the IT environment. These systems
closely couple cooling with the heat load which eliminates
mixing and hot air recirculation into sensitive IT equipment.
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6-30 kW per rack
• InfraStruXure Cooling Distribution Unit: Provides centralized
cooling balancing and distribution through jointless and flexible
chilled water piping. The innovative scalable, chilled “water
whip” system allows for quick deployment and enables
infrastructure to expand and contract based on changing
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APC HIGH DENSITY SOLUTIONS
preventing hot air recirculation into sensitive
IT equipment.
up to 18 kW per rack
• High Density Cooling Enclosure: Completely
self contained system deployed in any
environment. (Available in select regions.)
Management
up to 30 kW per rack
• InfraStruXure Manager: Centralized
management of your APC Networkcritical Physical Infrastructure increases
availability by providing a floor-layout
view with kW per rack of the data center
environment.
• Security & Environmental Appliances:
Networked NetBotz appliances to
protect your Network-critical Physical
Infrastructure from physical and
environmental threats.
Services
3 - 4 kW per rack
• Product Services: Assembly & Start-up,
Onsite Service, Extended Warranty
4-30 kW per rack
• Professional Services: Blade Readiness and
Needs Assessments as well as Network
Integration, Project Management
• Product Services: Assembly & Start-up,
Onsite Service, Installation Services,
Preventative Maintenance, Remote
Monitoring
Racks/Power Distribution
Units
up to 30 kW per rack
needs with minimal labor and installation costs.
• InfraStruXure Hot Aisle Containment System: Modular rowbased air containment system designed to maximize cooling
predictability, capacity, and efficiency. Innovative design
concept eliminates hot spots and neutralizes hot air by
preventing exhaust air from recirculating into sensitive IT
equipment.
• InfraStruXure Rack Air Containment System: Modular rackbased air containment system designed to maximize cooling
predictability, capacity, and efficiency. Innovative design
concept eliminates hot spots and neutralizes hot air by
• NetShelter SX Enclosure: Standardized
design enables a variety of cooling options
to ensure availability at high density.
• Toolless Blanking Panels: Use in all open “U” positions to
reduce re-circulation in the rack.
3-4, 4-6, 6-7 kW per rack
• Rack-mount PDUs- Basic, Metered or Switched (Up to 12.5kW)
7-30 kW per rack
• Rack-mount PDUs- Basic or Metered (14.4kW or 22kW):
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Since 1981, APC has been a global leader in power availability solutions, setting the industry
standard for quality, innovation, and support. From its corporate headquarters in West Kingston,
Rhode Island, APC operates sales offices throughout the world and manufacturing facilities on four
continents and distribution facilities on five continents. APC ships products to over 150 countries.
Over 15 million satisfied customers worldwide depend on APC’s Legendary Reliability . Propelled by
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real-world experience and a drive towards technological innovation, APC has the experience, scale,
global presence, and stability to respond to emerging IT availability needs.
As the recipient of hundreds of awards worldwide, APC is recognized for excellence in both its
business and product performance. Every year since 1999, APC has been named to the Forbes
Platinum 400 list of the Best Big Companies in America. For 12 years in a row, APC has received
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Suite 610, Miami - FL 33126
Call: (+1) 305-266-5005
Fax: (+1) 305-266-9695
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APC Ireland
Ballybrit Business Park
Galway - Ireland
Call: +353 91 702000
Fax: +353 91 756909
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APC Australia
Level 13, The Denison
65 Berry Street
North Sydney - NSW 2060
Call: +61 2 8923 9373
Fax: +61 418 441 338
Austria
Tel: (+43) 081 00011 98
Balkans
Tel: (+36) 1 487 6220
Benelux
Tel: (+31) 0347 325 200
Central Africa
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Czech & Slovak Rep.
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Denmark
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East Africa
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France
Tel: 0805 110 053
Germany
Tel: 0800 101 0067
Greece
Tel: (+30) 210 727 9221
Hungary & South-Eastern
Europe
Tel: (+36) 1 272 4000
Ireland (Dublin)
Tel: (+353) 1 8486033
Italy
Tel: 800 905 821
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Moscow
Tel: (+7) 495 929 9095
North Africa
Tel: (+33) 1 41 90 5239
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Tel: (+47) 6675 8646
Novosibirsk
Tel: (+7) 3832 277 999
Poland
Tel: (+48) 22 666 0011
Portugal
Tel: (+351) 21 850 41 00
South Africa
Tel: (+27) 11 465 5414
Service: 0861 272 877
Spain
Tel: 800 099 340
Sweden
Tel: (+46) 8 564 826 00
(+46) 0200 89 52 83
Switzerland
Tel: (+41) 56 437 62 62
Turkey
Tel: (+90) 216 362 0000
Service : 0800 261 21 35
UK
Tel: 0800 2799 254
Ukraine
Tel: (+380) 44 494 21 07
West Africa
Tel: (+27) 11 465 5414
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