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What we cover in Datacenter Administration training .....
Data Centre Fundamentals
- What is a Data Centre?
- Understanding the basic design requirements
- Building considerations
- Availability and resilience measures and practices
- Data Centre capacity planning
The Physical Infrastructure
- Physical infrastructure components
- Servers, software & services
- Mounting Racks, Servers
- Understanding Racks, their components
- Understanding types of Servers and their components
- Storage infrastructure
- IT security
- Physical security & access control
- Power infrastructure
- Cooling infrastructure
- Overview of different cooling system technologies
- Supplemental cooling options
- Chilled water system
Working in the Data Centre
- Bridging the gap between IT & facilities
- Operational processes and procedures
- Data Centre monitoring
- Capacity management
- Asset management
- Management tools, administration
- Environmental health & safety
- Equipment configuration
- Change management
- Energy efficiency
- Life safety systems
- Business continuity/disaster recovery
Data Centre Maintenance
- Why do maintenance?
- Preventative maintenance
- Predictive maintenance
- Reliability centred maintenance
- Condition-based maintenance
- Power system maintenance
- Generator preventative maintenance
- Cooling system maintenance
- Chiller preventative maintenance
- Cooling tower water treatment
- Fire protection system maintenance
- Control and monitoring system maintenance
- Data Centre cleaning
Advanced Power
- Power infrastructure
- Service entry switchgear
- Transfer switch
- Emergency power source
- Uninterruptable Power Supply System (UPS)
- UPS batteries
- Power distribution in the Data Centre
- Back-up power infrastructures
Advanced Cooling
- Data Centre cooling infrastructure systems
- Cooling architectures
- Air cooling
- Economiser modes
- Liquid cooling
- Chilled water plant
- Cooling towers
- HVAC efficiency and Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) relationship
Compliance and Standards
- Legislation - data related
- Legislation - non data related
- Standards - data related
- Standards - non data related
- Codes of conduct
- Business continuity/disaster recovery
Audit Principles
- Audit process
- Types of Data Centre audits
- Impact of operational procedures
- The scope of the measuring & monitoring
- Measurement methods
- Metrics
- Best practices