Front-to-Front Hardware Placement on Raised Floor and Open Return Environment
Raised Floor Layout for Optimum Cooling and Airflow with Open Return Environment
| Cabinet alignment | Teradata hardware cabinets are designed to take in conditioned supply air or chilled air in the front, pass it over the internal heat dissipating components, and exhaust it from the rear. All hardware cabinets must be installed front-to-front (rear-to-rear). |
| Cold aisle width | For a single cabinet row, two vented tiles per Teradata hardware cabinet are required. A minimum distance of 2.4 m (8 ft)—or four floor tiles—is recommended in the cold aisles, where the fronts of two rows of cabinets face each other. Perforated floor panels or floor grills must fill the cold aisles. To meet the cold air delivery requirements for a Teradata system, wider aisle width in the cold aisles may be necessary to accommodate more perforated floor panels or floor grills. Consider the following to determine how to meet the environmental specifications, specifically the recommended temperature and relative humidity ranges:
|
| BYNET cabinet placement | Place BYNET cabinets in the center to minimize cable lengths from node cabinets to BYNET cabinets. Leave space to allow room for future growth. To minimize cable lengths from nodes in processing and storage cabinets to InfiniBand switches in BYNET cabinets, place BYNET cabinets in the center or end of cabinet rows. The location depends on cable layout. |