Hi everyone,   We are holding a training next week for the new airflow metrics in IT Advisor CFD. This will be a comprehensive overview of the IT airflow effectiveness metrics and the cooler airflow efficiency metrics, both at the equipment and the room level.   Please register with the link below. You'll then receive an email with a calendar entry/ Outlook meeting invitation for the training.   https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/reFRbkvFOUu1mA_-muaP7w,ixuthqApW0qKJK25_c3HbA,jcxZ5sXPxESLrmrdcdsBYg,j3BAe6yY10OJLeNQEqmX8Q,wBj6wY-niE6XAzwnSJ20MQ,eiQtXdk9D0yCQhf5wQDXng?mode=read&tenantId=6e51e1ad-c54b-4b39-b598-0ffe9ae68fef   We'll also have time for Q&A.    Thanks! ... View more

    We have some small quality-of-life improvements to EcoStruxure IT Advisor CFD based on user feedback.   You can now use the shortcut key 't' to instantly jump back to the default, top down view. Also, while hovering over racks (when an analysis is present) you can see the power for each rack. To take this idea even further, at the beginning of 2023, we will be adding a Rack Power view so you can see the power of all of your racks. (Similar to how perforated floor tiles are colored for airflow.)   Please keep the feedback and suggestions coming, it helps us, and helps make EcoStruxure IT Advisor CFD better for everyone!       ... View more

Thank you everyone for your patience and many (many) requests for undo/redo.   It's a clearly a core piece of functionality that was missing. Now if you make a change you don't want when modeling a datacenter, you can either use the buttons on the top tool bar or use the keyboard shortcuts... like you should have been able to do for some time. Thanks again for your patience!      ... View more

Check out the new features just released in EcoStruxure IT Advisor CFD!...   Containment: (Unlimited-version users only). You can now specify leakage in terms of a "% open area". Previously, ITA CFD idealized all leakage as taking place "through the IT Racks" as they typically represent the primary leakage paths. Now you can add additional leakage uniformly distributed over the surfaces of the Containment. Of course, you can (still) also use Porous Plates (coincident with faces of the Containment) to explicitly model specific areas of leakage, e.g., where the containment meets the tops of the racks. After "Analyzing" the Containment hover-over menu now provides lots of great information which helps you understand precisely where all of the airflow is going as well as providing a summary of pressure inside the containment.   Pressure Scaling: ITA CFD now automatically scales the pressure in all parts of the whitespace so that the pressure in the main room area is zero on average. This convention is consistent with how we normally make pressure measurements in actual data centers for testing, cooler-control, etc. We also retained the manual "Pressure Offset" if you wish to further scale pressures up or down by any amount. While this feature seems modest or even obvious, we're not aware of it in any other CFD tool and it is one of those things that just "feels right".       ... View more

For our paying customers, EcoStruxure IT Advisor CFD has a new type of report, a PDF report. It includes room summary information as well as reference images of the cooling check view and field values (temperature, pressure, speed, velocity vectors).   This compliments the available spreadsheet which contains all of the project (and analysis data).   As always, feedback is welcome, either here  or cfd_support@se.com! ... View more