VIRTUAL DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEM

摘要

A virtual temperature monitoring system in a data center communicates with servers mounted in racks to receive internal temperature data generated by internal temperature sensors of the servers. The system derives a virtual sensor measurement of external temperatures external to the server, including a portion of a cold aisle that extends proximate to a rack in which the server is mounted, based upon a relationship between the received internal temperature sensors and the external environment. Sensor data from other sensors can be received via a building management system, and building management signals to the building management system can be generated based at least partially on the virtual sensor data. The virtual sensor data can be used to generate a graphical representation of the servers that highlights relative thermal characteristics of the servers based on the virtual external sensor measurements, including heat indices, excursions beyond thresholds, historical excursion histories, etc.

主权项

1. A data center, comprising:
a plurality of computer systems supported in one or more racks, each computer system of the plurality of computer systems comprising an internal computer temperature sensor configured to generate an internal temperature sensor measurement indicating an internal environment temperature of the respective computer system; a cold aisle, extending adjacent to a front end of each of the one or more racks, the cold aisle configured to supply air to respective internal environments of each of the plurality of computer systems as cooling air via a respective front end of each of the plurality of computer systems, the cold aisle comprising a plurality of external environments that each correspond to a separate one of the plurality of computer systems; a hot aisle, extending adjacent to a rear end of each of the one or more racks, the hot aisle configured to receive the air from the respective internal environments of each of the plurality of computer systems as exhaust air via a respective rear end of each of the computer systems; and a virtual monitoring system device, communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of computer systems and configured to:
generate a plurality of virtual external temperature sensor measurements, each instance of the virtual external temperature sensor measurements indicating a virtual sensor measurement of an external environment temperature of a separate external environment of the plurality of external environments, based at least in part upon the internal temperature sensor measurement received from the computer system corresponding to the respective external environment and a predetermined offset relationship between the internal temperature of the computer system and the external environment.