Patent ID: 7222043

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: one or more control components that regulate one or more thermal-test actual components, coupled with one or more rack-mount frames, to adjust one or more physically-emulated operational characteristics for one or more electronic devices, wherein the one or more thermal-test actual components create the one or more physically-emulated operational characteristics for the one or more electronic devices to generate one or more physically-emulated environmental effects before a planned presence of the one or more electronic devices; wherein the one or more control components obtain one or more actual measurements of one or more of: the one or more physically-emulated operational characteristics; and/or the one or more physically-emulated environmental effects, wherein one or more of the one or more thermal-test actual components stand in place of one or more of the one or more electronic devices while the one or more control components obtain the one or more actual measurements before the planned presence of the one or more electronic devices; wherein the one or more control components make a prediction, directed to the planned presence of the one or more electronic devices, of one or more of one or more actual operational characteristics and one or more actual environmental effects of the one or more electronic devices through employment of one or more of the one or more actual measurements.