Cooling Strategies for Ultra-High Density Racks and Blade Servers

Rack power of 10 kW per rack or more can result from the deployment of high-density information technology equipment such as blade servers. This creates difficult cooling challenges in a data center environment where the industry average rack power consumption is less than 2 kW. Five strategies for deploying ultra-high power racks are described, covering practical solutions for both new and existing data centers.