
When building a data center, it is essential to know the best options to make sure that efficiency, especially, installing hot or cold aisle containment. You need to consider the energy efficiency, the premise you stay in, the infrastructure you will keep in the data center. You should know first is that what is the difference between cold and hot aisle containment. It is a pivotal aspect to build the data center.
The data center needs hot and cold aisles as part of the energy-efficient layout for server racks and other required computing equipment. The purpose of hot/cold aisle configuration is to balance airflow in a way that preserves energy, and lowers the cooling price.
For better understanding, hot aisle/cold aisle data center design needs server racks in a row with other rows with cold air intakes in opposite directions as hot air exhausts facing the other. The rows are set-up in a line, and the fronts are called cold aisles. Cold aisles face directly to air conditioner output channels. Rows that hotter will exhaust pour into are known as hot aisles. Hot aisles face directly to air conditioner return channels.
This containment system separates hot aisles and cold aisles from each other and controls hot and cold air from joining. The system has been designed as physical barriers that segregated both aisles with vinyl plastic sheeting or other material covers. Today, technology has come up with more options to prevent both cold and hot aisles from joining together.