Course Outline

  • The Data Centre, it’s Importance and Causes for Downtime
  • Data Centre Standards and Best Practices
  • Data Centre Location, Building and Construction:
    • Selecting appropriate sites and buildings and how to avoid pitfalls
    • Various components of an effective data centre and supporting facilities setup
    • Raised Floor or Suspended Ceiling:
    • Uniform, concentrated and rolling load definitions
    • Applicable standards
    • Raised floor guidelines
    • Signal Reference Grid, grounding of racks
    • Disability act and regulations
    • Suspended ceiling usage and requirement
    • Light
  • Standards:
    • Light fixture types and placement
    • Emergency lighting, Emergency Power Supply (EPS)
  • Power Infrastructure:
    • Power infrastructure layout from generation to the rack level
    • ATS and STS systems
    • Redundancy levels and techniques
    • Three-phase and single-phase usage
    • Power distribution options within the computer room
    • Power cabling versus bus bar trunking
    • Bonding versus grounding
    • Common Mode Noise and isolation transformers
    • Distribution boards, form factors and IP-protection grades
    • Power quality guidelines
    • Real power versus apparent power
    • How to size and calculate load in the data centre
  • Generators:
    • Static and dynamic UPS systems, selection criteria, how they operate and energy efficiency option
    • Battery types, correct selection and testing
    • Thermo-graphics
  • Electro Magnetic Fields:
    • Electrical fields and magnetic fields definitions and units of measurements
    • Sources of EMF
    • Effects of EMF on human health and equipment
    • (H)EMP
    • Standards
    • EMF shielding solutions
  • Equipment Racks:
    • Rack standards, properties and selection criteria
    • Security considerations
    • Power rail or strip options
  • Cooling Infrastructure:
    • Temperature and humidity recommendations
    • Cooling measurement units and conversion rates
    • Sensible and latent heat definitions
    • Differences between comfort and precision cooling
    • Overview of different air conditioner technologies
    • Raised floor versus non-raised floor cooling
    • Placement of air conditioner units and limitations to be observed
    • Supplemental cooling options
    • Cold aisle and hot aisle containment
  • Water Supply:
    • Importance of water supply and application areas
    • Backup water supply techniques
  • Designing a Scalable Network Infrastructure:
    • The importance of a Structured Cabling System
    • Planning considerations
    • Copper and Fiber cable technology and standards
    • ANSI/TIA-942 Cabling hierarchy and recommendations
    • Testing and verification
    • SAN storage cabling
    • Network redundancy
    • Building-to-building connectivity
    • Network monitoring system requirements
  • Fire Protection:
    • Standards for fire suppression
    • Detection systems
    • Various total flooding fire suppression techniques and systems, their benefits and disadvantages
    • Handheld extinguishers
    • Signage and safety
    • Regulatory requirements and best practices
  • Physical Security and Safety:
    • Physical security considerations
    • Physical safety considerations
  • Auxiliary Systems:
    • Data centre monitoring requirements
    • EMS, BMS and DCIM
    • Water leak detection systems
    • Alarm notification
  • Operational Considerations:
    • Service Level Management
    • Organisation
    • Safety
    • Security
    • Facilities maintenance
    • Monitoring
    • Governance

Requirements

N/A

 14 Hours

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