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Figure 22. Server Cooling Air Profile
The server modules are cooled with traditional front‐to‐back cooling. As shown in the figure, the
front of the system is dominated by inlet area for the individual server modules. The air passes
through the server modules, through venting holes in the midplane, and is then drawn into the fans
which exhaust the air from the chassis. There are plenums both upstream of the midplane, between
the midplane and the blades, and downstream of the midplane, between the midplane and the fans,
to more evenly distribute the cooling potential from the three columns of fans across the server
modules.
Figure 23. I/O Module Inlet and IOM Locations