Are you getting the most from your data centre?
Just like the technology that operates within them, Data Centres are constantly evolving. When you started designing your data centre, the demands or your organisation were probably very different to it’s needs in the present day.
Constant change is likely to mean that your data centre isn’t performing the way it was originally designed to. Evaluating how your data centre is performing against industry benchmarks is the only way to understand and identify where improvements can be made.
The Advantage Max from Schneider Electric is an Annual Data Centre Health Check, which provides Schneider Electric CPCS certified service personnel at the customer’s location on a pre-determined scheduled date.
The Annual Data Centre Health Check consists of two components, an Asset Management Plan and an IT Room Audit. The Data Centre Health Check provides a proactive asset maintenance planning guide along with a site-level assessment of IT room reliability, capacity, and efficiency with best-practice optimization advice. A detailed report will be provided upon completion of the visit.
Asset Management Plan
Schneider Electric CPCS will provide a comprehensive maintenance plan overview at the site-level for assets covered by a Schneider Electric maintenance contract. This overview allows the customer to understand, budget for, and schedule future planned maintenance activity and consumable parts replacements.
IT Room Audit
Schneider Electric CPCS will deliver a graphical site report documenting potential risks and providing clear ranking, benchmark, and dedicated recommendations regarding the data center’s uptime, capacity, and efficiency. This comprehensive report looks at Power Supply, Physical Layout, Rack, Air Conditioning, and Air Distribution Management, providing detailed information and recommendations for each.
Schneider Electric CPCS provide a critical infrastructure overview of the five key domains of Data Centre (power supply, room layout, rack, air conditioning and air distribution). This global and unique ranking illustrates the current situation and provides a clear benchmark situation against risk on uptime, poor efficiency, and the best balance between them.
This allows the customer to understand, budget for, and schedule future planned maintenance activity and consumable parts replacements including batteries, power supply, fans, and capacitors.
Schneider Electric CPCS will provide a 3D model of each data centre with a detailed air management analysis which allows customers to visualize the cooling effects on their critical infrastructure for easy identification of overcooling and hotspot problems. Schneider Electric CPCS offers a general description, performance metrics, and clear recommendations on:
- Power uptime and UPS redundancy
- Room layout, room space usage, and security considerations
- Rack space usage and air inlet climatic conditions
- Cooling typology, latent and sensible cooling load
- Air mixing (Air Ratio Index) and best practices implementation (9 checks)
Schneider Electric will provide the following documentation and support after the conclusion of the on-site data collection.
- A customized assessment report with general recommendations to improve power, cooling, utilization, and availability as specified in Section 3.
- Identification of inefficient systems, equipment, and operations within the data center.
- Identification of potential risks Data Centre Management that may compromise theuptime, capacity, and efficiency.
Schneider Electric CPCS will deliver, and review with the customer, a graphical site report documenting potential risks and providing clear ranking, benchmark, and dedicated recommendations regarding the Data Centre(s) uptime, capacity, and efficiency.
For more details of what is included in the Data Centre Health Check or discuss your interest in this service, contact a member of our team today.
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