• A Crash Course in CRAC Cooling

    • By: Rich Miller
      February 25th, 2011

    What’s a CRAC? It’s shorthand for Computer Room Air Conditioner, a key component in data center cooling. In this video, SoftLayer “Social Media Ninja” Kevin Hazard gives a basic explanation of how data center CRAC units work, along with a walk-around demonstration of airflow within a hot aisle/cold aisle raised-floor environment. Due to the ambient noise in the data center, Kevin’s explanation had to be “yelled.” This video runs about 2 minutes.

    For more on cooling, see our Data Center Cooling Channel. For additional videos, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.

    • john

    Posted February 25th, 2011

    always love seeing vids like this.

    thx

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    48simple

    Posted February 25th, 2011

    This was a good very basic primer on DC cooling. But there is so much more going on behind the scenes I would like to see.

    karbonphiber

    Posted February 26th, 2011

    force of habit to critique the air distribution architecture in that room but it is not set up to handle high density cooling without task, close-coupled, supplemental cooling. It’s also not very efficient at effectively segregating hot/cold air mixing as there is no dropped ceiling to be used as a hot air return plenum, and no form of hot aisle containment.

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