Patent ID: 7726144

Claim:
A thermal management apparatus for usage in a data center comprising: at least one field replaceable unit comprising a non-volatile memory storing information relating to field replaceable unit thermal properties; a controller coupled to the at least one field replaceable unit and adapted to generate information for real-time dynamic temperature mapping of the data center based at least partly on the stored field replaceable unit thermal properties; a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag coupled to ones of the at least one field replaceable unit; the controller adapted to operate as at least part of a Global Positioning System (GPS), map location of the ones of the at least one field replaceable unit and generate information for real-time dynamic temperature mapping of the data center based at least partly on the mapped location; and a thermal modeling controller communicatively coupled to the controller and adapted to monitor information relating to field replaceable unit thermal properties of a plurality of field replaceable units and field replaceable unit location information and generate a theoretical temperature profile of the data center and execute a dynamic workload balancing action that selectively activates and deactivates selected field replaceable units based on the theoretical temperature profile and measurements from at least one temperature sensor and at least one power monitor in the data center.