TRAINING

Data Center
Design and Operation

This training covers the design of a standardized data center and its structured and efficient operation.

Audience

This training is aimed :
- To any company committing to the path of a DCIM application, Data Center Infrastructure Management, regardless of the publisher considered.
- To computer room operators wanting structured, easy management, with the targeted level of availability.
- To IT departments for whom a capacity dashboard will allow them to anticipate any new application requests.
- To general services needing to identify the real energy and cooling needs of a computer room.
- To environmental department sensitive to achievable energy savings.
- To consultant required to urbanize a computer room for today's applications with the Cloud and Virtualization.
- To manufacturers needing to adapt their offers to data center specificities.
- To network managers requiring a perfect knowledge of the speeds supported by the copper and fiber optic computer cabling system.

Prerequisites

The  "Data Center Infrastructure" training will help

Goals

Some data centers more than 5 years old no longer meet the new standards and find themselves facing a major risk of stopping production. This training addresses all the issues of the different systems making up the infrastructure of a data center, allows you to train in the operation of a standardized computer room and to prepare, if necessary, for any renovation or new creation with the main objectives are sustainability, availability and the reduction of increasingly costly energy consumption.

Program

The training program is based on technical standards and best practice guides. Its objective is to deal with the different standardized designs of data centers whose aim is to easily operate any computer room in its perpetual modifications, while respecting the level of availability and energy efficiency to be achieved.

Overview of a data center

The exact definition of a data center is standardized. All systems making up a data center are reviewed. The following chapters describe the main systems and their interactions.

Basic issues

Design errors, the absence of operating procedures, the absence of definition of responsibilities bring any data center into a critical situation where the major risk is the cessation of production. This chapter describes risk situations and their origins.


                                
                            

Availability levels

Availability levels are categorized by different agencies. A good understanding of these levels allows IT management to establish the strategy necessary to achieve the SLAs, Service Level Agreements, required by users at the application level.

Urbanization

The urbanization of a computer room depends on its ease of operation and its continuity of operation. its physical security and energy efficiency.

Power Distribution

Design :

Electrical distribution must achieve the following objectives:

- Provide the necessary power to each computer equipment (in the start-up phase and in continuous operation).
- Distribute clean current.
- Continuously supply computer equipment.
- Propose distribution redundancy.
- Integrate into general urbanization rules, taking into account thermal management, energy efficiency, the electromagnetic environment, fire risks and being able to adapt to data center governance rules.

Operation :

Operation follows electrical distribution management rules which ensure:

- Never exceed the permissible load of the electrical network.
- Maintain simplicity of operation, even during numerous changes of computer equipment.
- Do not degrade the cooling quality of IT equipment
- Meet the prerequisites at the targeted availability level.

The air conditioning

Design :

Air conditioning must achieve the following objectives:

- Respect the environmental constraints specified by computer equipment manufacturers.
- Permanently cool IT equipment.
- Propose redundant air conditioning.
- Achieve the highest level of energy efficiency.

Operation : 

Operation follows the thermal management rules of the computer room which ensure:

- Never exceed the admissible load of the air conditioning system.
- Maintain simplicity of operation, even during numerous changes of IT equipment.
- Do not degrade the cooling quality of IT equipment.
- Respect the prerequisites for the targeted availability level.

The computer cabling system

Design : 

The computer cabling system must meet the following loads:

- Support the fastest applications including Fiber Channel and Ethernet.
- Support PoE, Power Over Ethernet.
- Be designed as close as possible to IT activity, including Big Data.
- Maintain simplicity of operation, even during numerous changes of IT equipment.
- Respect the prerequisites for the targeted availability level.
- Integrate into general urbanization rules, taking into account thermal management, energy efficiency, the electromagnetic environment, fire risks and being able to adapt to data center governance rules.

Operation :

Operation follows the rules of administration of the computer cabling system which ensure:

- A connection to the network of computer equipment, in accordance with the type of network.
- A connection to the network of computer equipment, in accordance with the network speed.
- For fiber optics, compliance with connection procedures.
- For the worker's safety.
- For network performance.
- Maintain simplicity of operation, even during numerous changes of IT equipment.
- Do not degrade the cooling quality of IT equipment.
- Respect the prerequisites for the targeted availability level.

Access control

Design :

Access control to the heart of computer rooms is standardized and is based on:

- Badge or biometric readers.
- Access locking and release systems.
- Video surveillance.
- Intrusion detections.
- Logical and physical access convergence.

Operation : 

Good practices are recommended in order to operate a data center access control system at the highest level of security, in compliance with national directives.

Fire risk

Design :

The fire system must provide the following services:

- Detect the fire.
- Raise the alarm.
- Contain or extinguish the fire.
- Fire detection: manual, automatic, punctual, linear, early.
- The alarms are: sound, light.
- Extinguishing systems each have different characteristics with respect to computer equipment. They can be by fire extinguisher, by sprinkler, by inert gas, by inhibitor gas, by water mist.

Operation :

The implementation and maintenance of the fire system is subject to certification. The fire system requires specific behavior from occupants in the context of a data center.

Governance

A modern data center must be able to support perpetual changes in IT equipment, without interruption of service. Any change in hardware impacts:

- IT services.
- The operations department.
- Technical services.
- The capacity dashboard, possibly produced by a DCIM, contributes to unified governance essential to the management of the data center.

Teaching method

The course is taught in French or English by a certified trainer, interactive with the trainees, with corrected exercises and MCQs, Multiple Choice Questionnaire, at the end of the session. This course is taught:
- In class in a training center.
- In class at the training applicant's home.
- Remotely for learners.

Course materials

The electronic support is updated regularly and includes the course material in French and English, white papers and related videos.

Certificate

A certificate confirms successful completion of the MCQ, Multiple Choice Questionnaire, which is given to trainees and corrected at the end of the training session.

training duration

14 hours over 2 days.

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