Certified Data Centre Design
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Overview
This course, held over three days, is aimed at teaching best practice design principles for the design, construction and operation of computer rooms and data centers. It consists of a number of subsections that address the fundamental requirements of a successful design such as physical infrastructure, electrical power supply, air conditioning and data cabling. Best practice is achieved by bringing together the requirements of British, European, US and International standards. Several case studies are considered to see examples of good and bad practice in real situations. The unit is principally assessed by an ongoing design exercise that leads the delegates through all the steps a…
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Overview
This course, held over three days, is aimed at teaching best practice design principles for the design, construction and operation of computer rooms and data centers. It consists of a number of subsections that address the fundamental requirements of a successful design such as physical infrastructure, electrical power supply, air conditioning and data cabling. Best practice is achieved by bringing together the requirements of British, European, US and International standards. Several case studies are considered to see examples of good and bad practice in real situations. The unit is principally assessed by an ongoing design exercise that leads the delegates through all the steps and decision points needed to arrive at a baseline design of a modern data center. All the Data Centre Courses have been fully updated to take into account the requirements of the 2009 EU Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency.
Prerequisites
Experience of the data centre environment is essential.
Who Should Attend
Any individual involved or responsible for the management of an
existing Data Centre or those looking at the best practice for the
design of new facilities.
Delegates will learn how to
To understand the best practice of design principles, construction, operation and ongoing management of computer rooms and data centers ensuring they are efficient and compliant.
Course Outline.
What is a Data Centre?
- The Data Center stack
- TIA 942 spaces and hierarchical model
- Types of Data Center
- Location Considerations
The Importance of Design Project
Management
- Main design considerations
- Developing a project plan
Scoping the Requirement
- Identifying key stakeholders
- Market and political drivers
- Global, US and European standards
- Availability and resilience classifications
- Introduction to Uptime Model of Tiering
- TIA 942 recommendations for location, size, heights, floor loading, lighting and decor
- BICSI 002
Raised Access Floors
- Global, US and European standards
- Recommended floor heights
- Airflow and sealing
- Ramps and access
- Seismic protection
Cabinets
- Requirements of a cabinet
- Security, safety and stabilisation
- Clearance, accessibility and ventilation
- Cable Management
- Common design issues
Power
- Some electrical principles, volts, amps, watts, kVA, power factor and three phase
- Regulations and Codes
- The meaning of N, N 1 2(N 1) etc\
- Power delivery and losses
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) options
- Generator considerations
- Power Distribution Units
- Power distribution to and in a rack
- Emergency Power Off (EPO)
- Estimating power requirements
Cooling
- Global, US and European Standards
- Basics of air conditioning principles
- CRAHs and CRACs
- Operational parameters
- Underfloor plenum approach
- Hot aisle/cold aisle model
- Psychrometric charts
- Min and max throw distances for underfloor air
- Bypass and recirculation
- Airflow Management
- Chilled water racks, CO2, Passive Air
Earthing & Bonding
- Applicable standards
- The terminology of earthing, grounding and bonding
- Equipotential bonding
- ESD
- Functional earths
- The Signal Reference Grid (SRG)
- ‘L’ and ‘M’ categories
- Siting of fire/smoke detectors
- NFPA 75 requirements
- Cables for smoke detectors and alarm systems
Cable Containment, Management & Protection
- Applicable standards
- Separation of power and data cables
- Administration and labelling
- Types of conduit, trunking, tray etc available
- Earthing and bonding
- Fill rules
- Cable management in and to a rack European fire
- Fire stopping
Delivering the IT Strategy
- Data center equipment
- Functions and protocols, current and future
- Data center connections
- Cabling requirements
- Cabling standards
- Cabling options
- The impact of 40G and 100G
- The impact of virtualisation
Copper Cabling Conectivity
- Cabling standards
- Cable Standards, 10GBASE-T and CAT6A, Cat 7A
- Screened v unscreened cables
- High density patching
- Alien Crosstalk
- Design for growth management
- How many connectors in a channel?
- Connection topologies
Optical Fibre Conectivity
- Optical connectors, past and present
- Optical fibre management
- Types of optical cable
- Pre-terminated cabling
- Advantages and disadvantages of pre-terminating cables
- Optical component loss and link power budgets
- Application link loss
- The MPO and MTP ribbon connector
- Some manufacturers’ examples
- BICSI CECs: 21 RCDD, 21 ITS, 21 NTS
- CNet Certificate
- Optional BTEC Advanced Award in Practical Data
Centre Design - Please bring a laptop with a CD-rom drive.
Please bring a laptop with a CD-rom drive.
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