Selecting An Installation Rack For A Device In A Data Center
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsYu Zhong Cao, Li Wang, Yi Ming Yin
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Abstract
Selecting an installation rack for a device in a data center including obtaining physical size and power of the device; judging, according to the physical size and power of the device, whether rack space, rack total power, and rack unit power density of a rack in the data center satisfy predetermined requirement after the device is added into the rack; and selecting a rack that satisfies the predetermined requirement as an installation rack.
Claims20
A method of selecting an installation rack for a device in a data center, the method comprising:
- obtaining physical size and power of the device;
- judging, according to the physical size and power of the device, whether rack space, rack total power, and rack unit power density of a rack in the data center satisfy predetermined requirement after the device is added into the rack;
- and
- selecting a rack that satisfies the predetermined requirement as an installation rack.
A method of evaluating risk in a data center upon device installation in a rack, comprising:
- obtaining physical size and power of the device;
- judging whether rack total power, and rack unit power density satisfy a predetermined requirement when the device is in the current rack according to physical size and power of the device;
- and
- determining that there is risk when the device is installed in the current rack, if any one of rack total power or rack unit power density does not satisfy the predetermined requirement.
A system for selecting an installation rack for a device in a data center, the system comprising:
- obtaining means for obtaining physical size and power of the device;
- judging means for judging, according to the physical size and power of the device, whether rack space, rack total power, and rack unit power density of a rack in the data center satisfy predetermined requirement after the device is added into the rack;
- and
- selecting means for selecting a rack that satisfies the predetermined requirement as an installation rack.
A system for evaluating risk in a data center upon device installation in a rack, comprising:
- obtaining means for obtaining physical size and power of the device;
- judging means for judging whether rack total power and rack unit power density satisfy a predetermined requirement when the device is in the current rack according to physical size and power of the device;
- and
- evaluating means for determining that there is risk when the device is installed in the current rack, if any one of rack total power or rack unit power density does not satisfy the predetermined requirement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.