VF Model Includes
- Three dimensional physical facility layout
- Network connectivity of facility equipment
- Full inventory of facility equipment, including electronics and electrical systems such as Power Distribution Units (PDU’s) and Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS’s)
- Full air conditioning system (ACU’s) and controls within the room
The term Virtual Facility was introduced by Future Facilities, a data centre design consultancy focused on delivering Design and Operational solutions to address the emerging environmental problems facing the modern Mission Critical Facility (MCF). The concept is in essence a convergence of the fields of Virtual Reality (VR), Computer Simulation and Expert Systems, applied to the specific domain of facilities.
The VF type of computer simulation allows detailed analysis and prototyping of air flow in the data center by making use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques. This in turn allows the air flow and temperatures of the facility to be analyzed visually (Scientific Visualisation) and numerically to study and predict what will happen in the real facility. The importance of scientific methods in design of mission critical facilities has become a necessity, since the performance gains predicted by Moore's Law go hand in hand with a rise in power and heat dissipated by equipment. Rules of thumb have proven to be no longer adequate.
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