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The
BladeRoom System can be rapidly procured, delivered and operational.
It is ideal to create any sized data center and benefits from low
operational costs with a highly efficient data center cooling
system.
The BladeRoom system is infinitely scalable - meaning you can
increase capacity rapidly in line with your business growth and
deploy new data centers or expand existing sites in record time.
The cooling systems both primary and back-up, use ambient and evaporative
cooling for up to 100% of the time depending on the climate) -
maximizing efficiency - with full capacity N+1 back-up mechanical DX
cooling to ensure compliance with the Uptime Institute Tier 3
requirements. Tier 4 can be achieved by doubling up the primary and
back up cooling system.
The BladeRoom system has a 60-year design life and is structurally capable
of
multi-story
configuration - up to seven high without the need for additional
strengthening.
It is designed in accordance with the most demanding international
standards - and compliant with BS, ISO and IEC amongst other
standards. The BladeRoom factory is a large, modern spotlessly clean
environment where best practice methods are employed to ensure a
safe, efficient and timely production system.
Visits to the BladeRoom factory are encouraged and you are invited to view
the production of your data centers as they are assembled. You will
be able to check the quality throughout the process and take comfort
that your project timescales are going to be met.
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Data Center Cooling System
BladeRoom Cooling System
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The BladeRoom has an advanced
cooling system able to match exactly the actual cooling demands of
the IT.
The low energy data center
cooling system uses standby N+1 mechanical cooling rarely, with
principal cooling maximizing free, filtered, ambient air with
evaporative cooling. Free cooling is available for up to 100% of the
time (depending on the climate) - saving significant amounts of
money and carbon emissions.
The design of the BladeRoom
system was based around some simple guiding principles:
- to extract maximum heat from IT
- to deploy mechanical cooling rarely, and
- to use filtered ambient air and evaporative cooling to achieve
99+% free air cooling.
The BladeRoom system has been
designed around the ventilation requirements to achieve maximum
efficiency. Air is delivered seamlessly to where it is needed
through the normal working zones so ductwork and raised floors are
not required. National, European and International patents pending
cover this unique and important development.
Rather than re-circulating and
cooling the hot air from the IT as with traditional data center
cooling, a BladeRoom data center operates like a server by drawing
in highly filtered fresh air, intelligently matching air supply to
IT demand and exhausting hot air entirely from the data center as
required.
Evaporative and free cooling
enables the IT equipment to be cooled with supply air temperatures
of between 18C and 24C for more than 99% of the year without the
need for mechanical cooling across a range of IT loads, still
performing efficiently at 15% utilization of racks.
The back-up mechanical cooling
system is only used for emergencies and for partial cooling during
extreme weather conditions and is designed to cool 100% of the IT
load.
Testing with 24kW/rack
The final phase of the tests involved the entire load
being condensed into 10 racks in one IT room delivering 24kW per
rack. The BladeRoom system progressively redistributed the cooling
load where required responding to the changing load when the heat
emulators were moved between IT rooms.
The BladeRoom System has been proven to comfortably
deliver in excess of 24kW per rack of IT with 100% free cooling,
even with external temperatures in excess of 40°C; something that
had not previously been achieved.
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Power Distribution
BladeRoom Modular Data Center Power Distribution
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The BladeRoom system is designed to Uptime Institute
Tier 3 or 4 specifications, providing N+1 distribution paths for
power to IT and allowing maintenance to be carried out on any
element of the power infrastructure while the data center is in live
operation.
The mechanical and electrical design of the BladeRoom
system was developed in conjunction with Red Engineering, world
leading M&E specialists in the design of resilient data centers:
- UK's first Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designers
- Europe's first and only Uptime Institute Tier III
certified facility
- Europe's first and only Uptime Institute Tier IV certified design
Electrical distribution for a 464kW Tier 3
BladeRoom zone with 5 IT rooms
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Small sites may have only a single power management room,
whereas large installations will contain many zones, allowing low,
medium and high density areas or areas with different levels of
resilience.
UPS supplies from the primary electrical infrastructure can enter
the power management room through a dedicated service hatch in the
floor, meaning all services can be securely buried underground in
ducts with nothing left exposed. Alternatively, if the data center
inside an existing building, mains services can be brought in at
high level through dedicated fireproof service ways.
Each power management room contains 2 x Form 4 Type 6 switchboards
into which the A and B UPS supplies are terminated.
If the BladeRoom facility is delivered to site with racks
already fitted, tap off units and rack mounted power strips can be
installed and commissioned in the factory making racks powered and
IT-ready upon arrival to site. Lighting and small power outlets as
well as containment are all provided.
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Data Center Factory Production
BladeRoom Modular Data Center Factory Production
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Produced
in the factory, BladeRoom data centers require little on site time
to be functional.
The factory production process has many advantages over
traditional data center construction - reducing risk, providing
fixed cost certainty and controlling the environment in which to
assemble and commission high specification mission-critical data
centers.
The modular data center construction process allows us to
quickly build data centers to a consistent specification, producing
very large data center facilities in short timeframes.
Quality control is improved as electrical systems, BMS, fire
and cooling systems are comprehensively tested in the factory before
the BladeRoom data center is delivered to site for final connections
and further testing to ensure optimal operation.
Totally unaffected by the elements, scrupulously clean and
manned by a consistent and experienced labor force, the factory is
an ideal environment in which to build critical IT facilities. This
helps to reduce the risk associated with traditional data center
construction and fit out through partial factory commissioning and
services/control system testing.
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60-Year Data Center Build
BladeRoom 60-year Data Center Build
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The modular BladeRoom data center system is built to provide a
60-year design life with the robustness and durability of a
traditional build data center but delivered in only a fraction of
the time.
Constructed from specially designed and manufactured steel
frames, the modules allow generous space for wide hot and cold
zones, high ceilings and unparalleled engineering and maintenance
access.
In addition to the 'traditional construction' attributes of
robustness, space and multi-storey capability, a BladeRoom data
center can flex in size when required and is relocatable when
necessary.
BladeRoom modular data centers are fully compliant with building
regulations with an inherent structural capability that allows seven
stories or more and has extremely high insulation values.
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Quick Build Data Centers
A 120 rack data center can be ordered, built and operational
in a 12-week timeframe.
A very fast method of delivering a new data center facility and
increasing capacity when required, the BladeRoom system offers real
commercial and operational edge.
The BladeRoom system offers you a fast-track program to
acquire new data center capacity, operational in only a fraction of
the time it takes to build traditionally.
Program compression is possible because the off-site production
methodology allows all site and enabling works to take place
concurrently with the production of the data center in the factory.
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Data Center Racks
BladeRoom Data Center Racks
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The Air Optimizer dynamically supplies conditioned air in
accordance with the specific IT demands of an individual cold aisle.
In accordance with the efficient blanking system, this allows racks
with loads in excess of 24kW to operate comfortably along with lower
density racks without the need for any kind of adjustment to the
controls.
A comprehensive blanking system is delivered with the
BladeRoom whether we supply the racks or not.
Blanks are available for both 'u' slots within the racks and
full-size rack panels to maintain air separation if racks are
absent. This allows you to go live immediately with as few or as
many racks as you wish to install.
By removing the BladeRoom full rack blanking panels, you then
populate each BladeRoom IT aisle with your own racks or cabinets as
demand grows.
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Client Specific Data Center Options
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Video Surveillance can be integrated
into monitoring system
Security Access Control
The
modular nature of the BladeRoom system ideally lends itself to
providing different areas of data center security within zones,
depending on requirements.
Access
control measures can be agreed and implemented to enhance data
center security. These may include CCTV, 'on the spot' security
photo pass systems, card swipe entry systems or biometric entry
systems such as palm readers.
Dense
ferrous metal sheeting is added if required to protect the servers
from external magnetic interference.
Electromagnetic interference can be prevented with the
addition of panels containing RF shielding.
Walls will be lead-lined if necessary to protect against X-ray
penetration.
With the addition of a second Air Optimizer and power
management room, Tier 4 resilience can be delivered if required.
Full Tier 4 can be achieved very economically with the BladeRoom
System, providing fault tolerance in an extremely efficient way.
Articulating camera in the power management room
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An active CCTV system is an option. Not just for security monitoring,
the internal data center CCTV system allows close real-time
monitoring of moving parts and status indicators in conjunction with
the remote monitoring system.
An internal data center CCTV system can be specified to work in
conjunction with the BladeRoom data center's integral monitoring
system.
A series of
cameras both fixed and articulating are strategically sited to give
clear and unimpeded views of each IT corridor, supply and exhaust
corridors, power management room, control panels and key components
inside the Air Optimizer.
This gives
anytime access to key read-outs, plant function and general
operational activities inside the data center. The data center CCTV
system can be fully integrated into the web-enabled remote
monitoring system.
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