Data Centre Design/Life Cycle Overview
Standards and Rating Level Definitions
Building Considerations
Advanced Raised Floor & Suspended Ceiling
Advanced Power
- Power Infrastructure Layout
- Generators
- UPS Systems
- Harmonic Filters
- Battery Banks
Advanced Electro Magnetic Fields
Advanced Cooling
Advanced Fire Protection
Design and Install a Scalable Networking Cabling System
Environmental Specificatoins and Contamination Control
Data Centre Efficiency
Mock Exam
After completion of the course the participant will be able to:
- Understand the design life cycle of data centres and the stages involved
- Discuss the data centre requirements in great level of detail with vendors, suppliers and contractors to ensure that these requirements are met
- Validate design plans, quotes and offers proposed by vendors/contractors
- Understand redundancy levels for both the data centre design/setup and maintenance
- Understand the various building considerations such as bullet proofing, mitigation of seismic activity, fire ratings and thermal stability
- Understand how to install a raised floor that meets requirements, avoiding misalignment, level differences and leakage
- Understand how to read a Single Line Electrical Diagram to identify and avoid the most common design issues
- Choose the correct UPS and parallel con guration, learn and avoid classic parallel installation mistakes
- Understand how to calculate battery banks, validate offered configurations to ensure they meet requirements
- Understand what distance to keep to avoid EMF issues for human safety and equipment disturbances
- Understand the fundamental cooling setup, CFM, Delta-T and other important factors
- Understand contamination factors and limitations
- Understand full details of re suppression options, how to calculate gas content and verify installations
- Understand how to measure data centre energy efficiency and how to improve it
The primary audience for this course is an IT, facilities or data centre operations professional working in and around the data centre and having the responsibility to achieve and improve high-availability and manageability of the data centre
Participants must hold a valid CDCP certificate in order to be able to register for the CDCS class.
Certified Data Centre Specialist, CDCS (exam incl.)