Patent ID: 8249825

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for evaluating equipment in an improper cluster in a data center, the equipment including a plurality of equipment racks, and at least one cooling provider, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer system, data regarding each of the plurality of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider, the data including a layout of the improper cluster of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider; storing the received data; identifying at least one gap in the layout; determining a performance metric for the at least one of the plurality of equipment racks; determining a corrector value based on characteristics of the at least one gap; applying the corrector value to the performance metric for the at least one of the plurality of equipment racks; determining, by the computer system, cooling performance of at least one of the plurality of equipment racks based, at least in part, on the corrector value and the characteristics of the at least one gap; and displaying the layout of the data center, wherein the layout includes an indication of the cooling performance of the at least one of the plurality of equipment racks.