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Our data centre design consultancy covers server room layouts, power and cooling design, rack planning, network connectivity, and facility services. From four racks to forty, we deliver detailed schematics and port-level connection plans tailored to your equipment, space, capacity, and future growth.
Racks face each other across a contained cold aisle. Cooling at both ends, N+1. The arrangement is the whole of thermal design at this scale.
Server rooms and small data centres. Not hyperscale, and we will say so.
A drawing of the room you intend to use, with dimensions.
Cooling, power, facility services, and how it all connects.
Exact connections, so it can be built rather than interpreted.
How the work divides
Our data centre consultancy covers three connected stages: facility design, infrastructure deployment, and platform operations. Choose one stage or combine all three for an end-to-end data centre solution tailored to your infrastructure, workloads, and growth plans.
Cooling, power and facility services. Rack layout, aisle arrangement, thermal load, distribution and redundancy. Schematics your contractors build from.
What you receive →How racks, servers, switches and firewalls interconnect. High level first — and with makes and models, down to which cable goes in which port.
Connection detail →Apache CloudStack on top of it, and the operations to keep it running. This is the practice the rest of this site is about.
Apache CloudStack →Parts one and two are the design engagement. Part three is a separate conversation, and you are not obliged to have it with us.
Part one
You send the drawing of the room you intend to use. We work out whether it will hold what you need, and return the schematics to build it.
The one-line is where redundancy either exists or does not. Everything downstream depends on it being right.
| Deliverable | What it contains | Who uses it |
|---|---|---|
| Rack layout | Positions, aisle arrangement, clearances, cable routes, and the growth path — where racks thirteen through twenty go when you need them. | Your contractor, and you |
| Thermal load & cooling | Heat load per rack and total, cooling capacity required, unit placement, airflow arrangement and redundancy. | Your HVAC contractor |
| Power schematic | Single-line diagram from incoming supply through transfer, UPS and distribution to rack level. Load calculation, phase balance, runtime. | Your electrical contractor |
| Facility services | Earthing, fire detection and suppression provision, access control points, environmental monitoring positions. | Your building contractor |
| Capacity statement | What the room holds today, what it holds at full fit-out, and which constraint binds first — usually power or cooling, rarely floor space. | You, and whoever signs the budget |
Part two
A room with power and cooling is not yet a data centre. This part is how the equipment in it connects — first as a topology, then, if you tell us what you are buying, as a build sheet.
The elevation says what goes where. The schedule says what plugs into what. The second is the one that saves a week on site.
How racks, servers, switches and firewalls interconnect, with redundancy, segmentation and management network shown. Vendor-neutral, so you can still choose your hardware.
Tell us the makes and models you intend to buy and the topology becomes a connection schedule — device, port, destination, port. Your installer follows it rather than interpreting a diagram.
Most of the delay in commissioning a new room is not the racking. It is working out, on site and under pressure, what was supposed to plug in where.
A topology tells your installer what you meant.A connection schedule tells them what to do.
Part three
Once the room is built and the equipment is connected, the question becomes what platform sits on top and who operates it. That is the rest of this site — a full Apache CloudStack practice, security assurance, and managed operations for estates we did or did not build.
You are not obliged to take part three from us. A room designed properly is worth having whoever runs what goes in it.
Scope
Four to forty racks. Above that the engineering is a different discipline with different specialists, and we will tell you so rather than take the work.
We are not an Uptime Institute accredited firm and do not issue Tier certification. If your requirement names a Tier, you need an accredited designer and we will say so at the first conversation.
We produce drawings. Installation is carried out by your licensed contractors and remains subject to local statutory approval and inspection.
Start here
A drawing of the space with dimensions, roughly how many racks you expect to fill, and what you intend to run. That is enough for us to tell you whether the room works and what it would take.
If the space will not hold what you want, that is the first thing you will hear.