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Exploring the basics of data center aisle
containment doors, panels, curtains, and more

• By
• Netrack

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Exploring the basics of data center aisle
containment doors, panels, curtains, and
more Data centers are vulnerable to damage of any
mission-critical equipment or server downtime due
to inefficient Air Flow management. It impacts
the businesss credibility and causes a financial
burden for the organization. Data center
challenges Data centers consist of servers,
PDUs, and other various mission-critical
equipment that operate 24/7 to support the
organizational workflow. Hence these servers and
equipment generate immense heat causing
electrical short circuits and the data center
temperature to rise. Additionally, poor
ventilation or inefficient airflow management
reduces the data centers cooling capacity,
resulting in fire outbreaks. Therefore,
considering all the above, creating a long-term
solution to monitor and control the temperature
within the data center ecosystem is essential.
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Aisle containment A cooling solution! Data
center aisle containment is critical in ensuring
sufficient cooling of the data center. It
improves overall airflow management by preventing
hot and cold air mixing. This is possible through
the efficiency of the data center aisle
containment design, where the rack enclosures are
placed in rows facing each other to form a cold
aisle while the back faces the rear of different
cabinets to create a hot aisle. These aisle
containments are specially designed to ensure
that the cold air is circulated within the cold
aisle while the hot air is vented out through the
exhaust. Both hot and cold-aisle containment
systems have advantages as well as
disadvantages. The Cold Aisle Containment (CAC)
solution ensures a uniform and continuous flow of
cold air through the air inlet ducts and
perforated floor tiles in front of the rack
cabinets to the equipment. In addition, the CAC
solution has a ceiling panel above the aisle to
contain the cold air. The sealing of CAC prevents
hot air from entering the server and mixing with
the cold air. As a result, this solution is
effective and less expensive. However, the Hot
Aisle Containment (HAC) solution, on the other
hand, the Hot air is contained by placing the
Rear side of Rack rows face to face and making a
containment. Netrack recommend to design CAC If
the rack quantity is more with larger Data hall,
while HAC will be more suitable for smaller Data
Hall and lesser racks.
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• Netracks contribution to increasing aisle
  containment efficiency
• The structural design of the aisle containment
  system with segregated rows of racks and cabinets
  minimizes the mixing of hot and cold air.
• Customized blanking panels are used to fill the
  space where racks are missing. The panels prevent
  airflow to the unused racks spaces to avoid
  thermal short-circuit in the data center.
• As a cost-efficient solution, vertical curtains
  composed of flexible strips also help separate
  the cold and hot aisles. The strips are placed
  overlapping to create an efficient barrier to
  prevent the hot and cold air from mixing. But one
  has to ensure the material used are UL90
  certified
• Depending upon the space in the data center, can
  use single or double doors with hinges or sliding
  options towards the end of the aisles to ensure
  thermal efficiency.
• Manual opening and auto closing doors are
  installed to ensure the Containment doors are
  closed at all times, in some installation there
  are usage of Auto doors with proximity sensors to
  open and close the Containment door.
• A data center is built based on its function and
  scaling requirements. Hence, Netrack customizes
  the data center aisle containment solutions to
  cater to clients varied needs to enhance the
  data centers efficiency.