Patent attributes
Embodiments are disclosed of a rack cooling apparatus, more specially, a rack fluid control and management unit with a first pair of fluid lines including a first supply line and a first return line and a second pair of fluid lines including a second supply line and a second return line. The first supply line and the first return line are adapted to be coupled to a first rack manifold and the second supply line and the second return line are adapted to be coupled to a second rack manifold in the same rack as the first rack manifold. First and second bi-directional fluid lines fluidly couple the first supply line to the second supply line.