Solargenic Hot Aisle Containment

Hot aisle containment systems: proven cost savings on server cooling

With constant pressures on data centres to lower energy consumption, Cross-Guard’s Solargenic hot aisle containment systems deliver guaranteed cost and energy savings. The hot aisle containment systems are bespoke designed and manufactured to your needs to fit any server cabinets, while enhancing the look and feel of your data centre space.

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What is Hot Aisle Containment?

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Aisle containment restricts the loss of cold air around your servers, and prevents the mixing of cold air with hot exhaust air, optimising data centre cooling efficiency. The hot aisle ensures that hot exhaust air from the racks is contained within the aisle, enabling the rest of the data centre to become a large reservoir of cold air.

With hot aisle containment, hot air is ducted away, either via a plenum space in the ceiling, or using large ducts connected to the CRAH unit. This set-up can lend itself well to very large purpose-built data centres employing adiabatic cooling, for example. The hot aisle containment will typically need to be extended upwards to connect with the overhead plenum/ducting, or ‘chimney’ cabinets can be used. Call our technical team on +44 (0)20 8108 9328 if you’d like further details on the different types of hot aisle containment set-up.

Hot Aisle Benefits

Cross-Guard’s hot aisle containment system provides clients with numerous benefits, including:

  • Cost effectiveness
  • Improved Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
  • Extended IT equipment life
  • Lower carbon emissions
  • Reduced hot spots
  • Favourable return on investment (ROI)
  • Reduced carbon footprint
  • Available in a wide range of standard colours (see colour chart below)
  • Bespoke design and manufacture
  • Specialist installation available
  • Can fit cabinets of varying sizes
  • Can retrofit existing cabinets
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Why choose Hot Aisle Containment?

Cross-Guard’s Coolgenic cold aisle and Solargenic hot aisle containment systems are highly versatile products that can be retrofitted to any type of cabinets, easily modified or re-installed to suit changing requirements. Hot aisle containment systems are very similar to cold aisle containment systems, in that the racks are normally lined up in rows to form pods. Hot aisle containment has gained increasing popularity as denser computing and power loads have evolved.

A popular alternative to the standard hot aisle containment systems linked to plenums is known as in-row server cooling, where CRAC units are built into the cabinet rows. The hot aisle will then typically look identical to a cold aisle with a flat aisle roof, and there is no requirement for a hot air plenum. This type of hot aisle containment provides a more granular cooling as in-row CRAC fan speeds are controlled individually.

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Features of a hot aisle containment system

Cross-Guard has over 20 years of experience in designing and manufacturing caging and aisle containment for data centres worldwide. We offer a number of bespoke hot aisle containment solutions; combining the requirements for energy savings, security, and fire safety, with optimum data centre efficiency.

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Satisfied Clients

Vassil G

Equinix

I just wanted to say that your team did a really good job.  Thank you and looking forwrad to a new project with Cross-Guard!

Mike Lawrence

Remtech

"Cross-Guard are an excellent company to deal with. Technical questions are dealt with very efficiently, products are well manufactured and delivered on time."

Matt Holloway

European Datacentre Manager at ControlCircle, Dartford, UK

"I have used Cross-guard for all my secure cage builds and designs for over 10 years have always found them to be professional and their work to be of the highest quality."

Gary Kilmister

Head of Data Centres at Pulsant Limited, Colchester, UK

"I have used Cross-guard over the last 10 years in my various capacities. I am not easily pleased, but the quality of the cage works, professionalism with pre and post sales and installs is second to none. I have no hesitation in using them where the opportunity presents itself and happy to recommend."

Reka Dobsi

Office and Marketing Manager at Catsurveys Group, Southend on Sea, UK

"We have used Cross-guard for the first time and we have been very impressed with the excellent service and fast turnaround they have provided us with. I would highly recommend them."

Bhavesh Amin

Data Centre Manager at TATA Communications Ltd. (FKA VSNL), Reading, UK

"I recommend this product."

Martin Buckley

Facilities Technician at Digital Realty, Ireland

"I worked with Cross-Guard at a data center facility based in Paris, France. I found their quality of workmanship and install team always a pleasure to work with and would highly recommend them."

Matthew Reid

UK Data Centre Manager at CGI, Newport, UK

"I have used Cross-guard on several occasions and have always found their work exceptional, delivered on time and to budget; I would always use Cross-guard for work in and around secure environments."

Adam Matthews

Construction Manager at Overbury

"I first used Cross-Guard back in 2006 and found service, product and staff to be very good, I have subsequently used them several times over the past few years for cages and security doors. In my line of business the big questions are would I recommend Cross-Guard and would I use them again? Yes and Yes."

John Maccallum

Data Centre Manager at TelecityGroup, London, UK

"Quality product with excellent before and after sales service."

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