Can Hall 2 take four 20 kW racks?
Ask the question in the form it is asked on the floor. NetCosm answers yes or no, names the limiting factor and shows the records it used.
A straight answer
The Capacity question takes a site, a number of racks, kW per rack and a date, and answers Yes or No with the limiting factor named.
Headroom you can trust
Space, power, cooling, weight and port totals roll up from rack to room, floor, building and site.
See the run-out coming
A 12-month forecast shows the first month each threshold reaches warning and critical.
From setup to answer in four steps
Ask
Enter the number of racks, kW per rack, the needed-by date and, if you like, a rack type.
Checks run in order
Change freeze, then space, then power, then cooling. The first one that fails is the limiting factor.
See why
Each answer lists the records it used and has a Why: headroom by room view.
Hold the space
Reserve U ranges and kW for a named customer or project until a date, and plan ahead with the forecast.
What you can do
Cooling that allows for redundancy
Usable cooling counts every unit at N, drops the largest unit at N+1 and halves the total at 2N. A rack's cooling load is its design kW, or its allocated power when no design figure is set. Placing a rack also checks floor loading in kg/m² and liquid cooling loop headroom.
Forecast, thresholds and reservations
Set warning and critical thresholds for space, power, cooling, ports or floor loading, each with a named owner. The forecast fits a trend to at least three months of history and adds approved applications, live reservations and project demand.
Reclaim what is idle
A reclaim plan finds idle, live, owned devices with CPU under 5% and traffic under 1 Mbps for 30 days. It never proposes DR devices or devices with no owner, ranks candidates by monthly cost and carbon, and needs a named approval.
Works with the rest of the platform
Room and floor planner
Open any room as a 2D floor plan or a 3D view, drop racks onto the tile grid and see at once whether they fit, clear the doors and face the right way.
Read morePower chain
Model the whole power chain, see headroom at every step against de-rated capacity, and take a feed out on screen to find what would be overloaded.
Read moreTelemetry and environment
Readings land beside the plan. See sensors on the floor, chart their history with limits drawn in, and compare measured kW with allocated kW rack by rack.
Read moreFrequently asked questions
Can it tell us if a hall can take new racks?
Yes. Give the number of racks, kW per rack and the date; it answers yes or no and names the limiting factor.
How is cooling headroom worked out?
From cooling units with redundancy applied (N, N+1 or 2N) against each rack's design or allocated kW.
Does it forecast when we will run out?
Yes. A 12-month trend from monthly history, plus approved demand and reservations, shows the month each threshold is reached.
Can we hold space for a customer?
Yes. U ranges and kW can be reserved for a named customer or project until a date.
Who sets the thresholds?
You do: warning and critical percentages per measure, each with a named owner.
Can it find kit we could switch off?
A reclaim plan lists idle, owned devices ranked by cost and carbon, for approval.
NetCosm is hosted in the United Kingdom, so your rack, power and network records stay in the UK.
See it on your own floor
Book a demo and we will walk through it with your rooms, racks and addresses in mind.