Implement Perforated Raised Floor Panels in Cold Rows

It used to be that you’d place perforated raised access panels below the servers’ cabinet to force the air into the cabinet, which would cool the lower servers fine, but what about the top servers? Often they can overheat. In a racked server environment, a hot/cold row design makes more sense because the air doesn’t flow bottom to top, but front to back. Therefore, if you place perforated panels in the aisles in front of the servers, you’ll be forcing air to through the front of the entire rack, which will give all the servers top to bottom access to the cool air. You’ll be able to more evenly cool the server components and pass the heated air through the back of the rack. The hot air will rise and be extracted by the air conditioning unit.