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SK0-003 · Question #246

A company has had problems with their HVAC system being able to cool their datacenter as they have grown. Which of the following could BEST be used to help reduce the load on the HVAC system?

The correct answer is B. Replacing traditional racks with water cooled racks. To best reduce the load on an overburdened HVAC system in a growing datacenter, implementing water-cooled racks directly addresses heat dissipation by removing heat more efficiently than air cooling.

Server hardware installation and management

Question

A company has had problems with their HVAC system being able to cool their datacenter as they have grown. Which of the following could BEST be used to help reduce the load on the HVAC system?

Options

  • AReplacing the CAT5 cables with CAT6 cables
  • BReplacing traditional racks with water cooled racks
  • CTurning off non-critical application servers during non-business hours
  • DTaking the second power supplys out of non-critical servers

How the community answered

(18 responses)
  • A
    11% (2)
  • B
    67% (12)
  • C
    17% (3)
  • D
    6% (1)

Why each option

To best reduce the load on an overburdened HVAC system in a growing datacenter, implementing water-cooled racks directly addresses heat dissipation by removing heat more efficiently than air cooling.

AReplacing the CAT5 cables with CAT6 cables

Replacing CAT5 cables with CAT6 cables has negligible impact on heat generation or HVAC load, as network cables contribute very little to overall datacenter heat.

BReplacing traditional racks with water cooled racksCorrect

Water-cooled racks are highly efficient at removing heat directly from IT equipment, significantly reducing the amount of heat released into the datacenter air. This directly lessens the burden on the overall HVAC system, making it an effective solution for high-density environments.

CTurning off non-critical application servers during non-business hours

Turning off non-critical servers during non-business hours would reduce power consumption and heat, but it is not the best solution as it impacts availability and is less efficient than a direct cooling solution for continuous load.

DTaking the second power supplys out of non-critical servers

Removing redundant power supplies would reduce reliability but would not significantly reduce power consumption or heat output, as the primary power supply would still be doing the work and the second PSU mostly sits idle until needed.

Concept tested: Datacenter cooling optimization

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/datacenters/datacenter-cooling#liquid-cooling

Topics

#datacenter cooling#water cooling#HVAC#server racks

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