3.3 Implementing a Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle Equipment Layout
Best practice is to place equipment racks in alternating rows of cold aisles and hot aisles. This is best accomplished when
planning the layout of the file server farm area. It is more difficult to accomplish when the computer room is already
populated with operating hardware.
In the cold aisle, the equipment racks are arranged face-to-face so the cooling air discharged from the cooling unit is
discharged up through perforated floor tiles, drawn into the face of the computer hardware and exhausted out the back of
the equipment rack into the adjacent hot aisles. Hot aisles are literally hot because the alternating cold and hot-aisle design
separates the source of cooling air from hot air discharge, which returns to the computer room cooling unit. No perforated
tiles should be placed in the hot aisles, which mixes hot and cold air, lowering the temperature of the air returning to the
cooling units and reducing usable capacity.
Figure 3.1 XDU Layout in Hot/Cold Aisle Application
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