Air Volume, Air Quality, And Temperature; Air Volume Specifications - Dell EMC PowerMax Series Site Planning Manual

Figure 1. Typical airflow in a hot/cold aisle environment
Table 7. Airflow diagram key
# Description
1 To refrigeration unit
2 Suspended ceiling
3 Air return
4 System bays
5 Cold aisle

Air volume, air quality, and temperature

The installation site must meet certain recommended requirements for air volume, temperature, altitude, and humidity ranges, and air
quality.

Air volume specifications

The following table provides the recommended maximum amount of air volume.
Table 8. Maximum air volume, PowerMax 2000
Number of PowerBricks
1
2
Table 9. Maximum air volume, PowerMax 8000
System Bay 1
1
4
5
9
# Description
6 Hot aisle
7 Perforated rear doors
8 Pressurized floor
9 Perforated floor tile
Number of PowerBricks
1
2
3
2 2
1
3
4
6
7
8
Units
3
545 cfm (15.3 m /min)
3
1,090 cfm (30.5 m /min)
Units
545 cfm (15.3 m
1,002 cfm (28.1 m
1,547 cfm (43.3 m
5
9
3
/min)
3
/min)
3
/min)
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