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Despite this critical role in data center design, many floor plans are established through incremental deployment without a central plan. Once a poor floor plan has been deployed, it is often difficult or impossible to recover the resulting loss of performance. This paper provides structured floor plan guidelines for defining room layouts and for establishing IT equipment layouts within existing rooms.  \n©2007 American Power Conversion. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used, reproduced, photocopied, transmitted, or 2  \nstored in any retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of [the copyright owner.](the copyright owner. www.apc.com)[ www.apc.com](the copyright owner. www.apc.com) WP144 Rev 2007-0  \nIntroduction  \nA data center floor plan includes the layout of the boundaries of the room (or rooms) and the layout of IT equipment within the room. Most users do not understand how critical the floor layout is to the performance of a data center, or they only understand its importance after a poor layout has compromised the deployment. The floor plan either determines or strongly affects the following characteristics of a datacenter:  \n• The number of rack locations that are possible in the room  \n• The achievable power density  \n• The complexity of the power and cooling distribution systems  \n• The predictability of temperature distribution in the room  \n• The electrical power consumption of the data center  \nMany users do not appreciate these effects during data center planning, and do not establish the floor layout early enough. As a result, many data centers unnecessarily provide suboptimal performance.  \nThe purpose of this paper is to explain how floor plans affect these characteristics, and to prescribe an effective method for developing a floor layout specification.  \nRole of the Floor Plan in the System Planning Sequence  \nFloor plans must be considered and developed at the appropriate point in the data center design process. Considering floor plans during the detailed design phase is typical, but simply too late in the process. Floor plans should instead be considered to be part of the preliminary specification and determined BEFORE detailed design begins. Figure 1 illustrates where floor planning fits into the system planning sequence.  \nAPC White Paper \\#142,“Data Center Projects: System Planning” explains this planning sequence in greater detail.  \nIt is not necessary for a floor layout to comprehend the exact location of specific IT devices. This paper will show that effective floor plans only need to consider the location of equipment racks or other cabinets, and to target power densities. These preliminary floor layouts do not require knowledge of specific IT equipment. For most users it is futile to attempt to specify particular IT equipment locations in advance – in fact, racks may ultimately house equipment that is not even available on the market at the time the data center is designed.  \n©2007 American Power Conversion. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used, reproduced, photocopied, transmitted, or 3  \nstored in any retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of [the copyright owner.](the copyright owner. www.apc.com)[ www.apc.com](the copyright owner. www.apc.com) WP144 Rev 2007-0  \nFigure 1 – The floor plan is a key input in the system planning sequence  \nThe floor plan is created after the system concept is developed, and becomes an input to user requirements.  \nFor more about this planning sequence, see APC White Paper \\#142,“Data Center Projects: System Planning”  \nDESIGN  \n©2007 American Power Conversion. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used, reproduced, photocopied, transmi","cbCaidtpNEI68FlP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidtpNEI68FlP","pdf",448752,24,"English","# Executive Summary\n# Introduction\n# Role of the Floor Plan in the System Planning Sequence\n# DESIGN\n## Floor Planning Concepts","[{\"question\":\"Why is a data center floor plan critical to performance?\",\"answer\":\"It determines or strongly affects rack capacity, achievable power density, power and cooling distribution complexity, temperature predictability, and overall electrical power consumption.\"},{\"question\":\"When should floor plans be developed in the design process?\",\"answer\":\"Floor plans should be considered part of the preliminary specification and set before detailed design begins, after the system concept is developed.\"},{\"question\":\"What level of detail does the floor plan need for effective planning?\",\"answer\":\"Effective floor plans focus on the placement of equipment racks or cabinets and targeting power densities; they do not require specifying exact IT device locations in advance.\"}]","Data Center Projects: Establishing a Floor Plan - White Paper #144 | PDF",1790136601,8]