CDCP-CDCS - Certified Data Centre Professional + Specialist Combo

Duration

5 days

Course Description

With few exceptions, enterprises today rely on IT for the delivery of business-critical services - often directly to the end consumer. It is therefore vital that the mission-critical data centre is designed, maintained and operated with high-availability and e¬fficiency in mind. However, the fact is most data centres do not meet the full availability, capacity, safety or e¬fficiency requirements that are often demanded. The ever-changing technologies put even more pressure on data centre managers along with the faster pace at which these changes are required. The CDCP® course is a two-day course designed to expose participants to the key components of the data centre. It will address how to setup and improve key aspects such as power, cooling, security, cabling, safety, etc, to ensure a high available data centre. It will also address key operations and maintenance aspects.

Audience

The primary audience for this course is any IT, facilities or data centre professional who works in and around the data centre and who has the responsibility to achieve and improve the availability and manageability of the Data Centre.

Prerequisites

While there are no specific prerequisites for this course. However, participants who already have at least one or two years’ experience in a data centre or facilities environment may be best suited. Those with no experience just yet are most welcome to participate.

Course Benefits

After completion of the course the participant will be able to:

• Choose an optimum site for mission-critical data centre based on current and future needs
• Describe all components that are important for high-availability in a data centre and how to effectively setup the data centre
• Name and apply the various industry standards
• Describe the various technologies for UPS, re suppression, cooling, monitoring systems, cabling standards, etc, and to select and apply them effectively to cost-efficiently enhance the high-availability of the data centre.
• Review the electrical distribution system to avoid costly downtime
• Enhance cooling capabilities and efficiency in the data centre by using existing and new techniques and technologies for the increased cooling requirements of the future
• Design a highly reliable and scalable network architecture and learn how to ensure installers apply proper testing techniques
• Create effective maintenance contracts with equipment suppliers ensuring the best return on investment
• Setup effective data centre monitoring ensuring the right people get the right message
• Ensure proper security measures, both procedural and technical, are established to safeguard your company's valuable information in the data centre
• Understand the design life cycle of data centres and the stages involved
• Discuss in great level of detail requirements with vendors, suppliers and contractors to ensure they meet the customers’ requirement
• Verify on the technical level design plans, quotes and offers proposed by vendors/contractors
• Understand Tier-levels for both the data centre design/setup as well as maintenance tier levels
• Understand the various building considerations such as bullet proofing, mitigation of seismic activity, fire ratings and thermal stability
• Understand how to build up a raised floor meeting requirements to avoid misalignment, level differences and leakage
• Understand how to read a Single Line Electrical Diagram being able to identify the most common design issues made
• Choose the correct UPS and parallel configuration, learn how to avoid classic mistakes when installing systems in parallel
• Understand how to calculate battery banks enabling you to double check offered configurations to ensure it meets the customers’ 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.

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/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 requirements
• Light
• Standards
• Light fixture types and placement
• Emergency lighting, Emergency Power Supply (EPS)
• Power Infrastructure
• Power infrastructure layout from generation to 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/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/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 Suppression
• 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
• Data Centre Monitoring
• Data centre monitoring requirements
• EMS versus BMS
• Water leak detection systems
• Notification options and considerations
• Operational Security and Safety Practices
• Data centre security layers
• Physical, infrastructure and organisational security
• Safety measures and essential signage
• Labelling
• Choosing a labelling scheme
• Recommended labelling practices
• Network labelling
• Documentation
• How to setup proper documentation
• Document management policies and procedures
• Cleaning
• Cleaning practices for the data centre
• MTBF/MTTR
• Standards and denitions
• Calculation models
• The ‘real’ value
• Maintenance Contracts/SLA/OLA
• EXAM: Certied Data Centre Professional

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the design life cycle of data centres and the stages involved
• Discuss in great level of detail requirements with vendors, suppliers and contractors to ensure they meet the customers’ requirement
• Verify on the technical level design plans, quotes and offers proposed by vendors/contractors
• Understand Tier-levels for both the data centre design/setup as well as maintenance tier levels
• Understand the various building considerations such as bullet proofing, mitigation of seismic activity, fire ratings and thermal stability
• Understand how to build up a raised floor meeting requirements to avoid misalignment, level differences and leakage
• Understand how to read a Single Line Electrical Diagram being able to identify the most common design issues made
• Choose the correct UPS and parallel configuration, learn how to avoid classic mistakes when installing systems in parallel
• Understand how to calculate battery banks enabling you to double check offered configurations to ensure it meets the customers’ 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.

Course Outline

Data Centre Design / Life Cycle Overview

• Overview of the phases of a data centre life cycle
• Planning, re-alignment and continuous improvement

Tier Levels

• History of ‘tier level’ definitions
• Tier level definitions, categories and measure points
• Redundancy options
• Tiered Infrastructure Maintenance Standards (TIMS)

Building Considerations & Standards

• Floor loading requirements
• Fire rating for walls and glass
• Blast protection
• Bullet proofing
• Forced entry protection

Advanced Raised Floor & Suspended Ceiling

• Raised floor installation guidelines to ensure contractors install a proper closed and levelled raised access floor
• Choosing the right tiles and their locations
• Seismic mitigating _oor constructions
• Choosing the correct suspended ceiling

Advanced Power

Power infrastructure layout;

• Formulas which you should know for the data centre
• Single Line Electrical diagrams; how to read to ensure key components are present for protection
• Over current protection devices (MCB/MCCB/VCB/ACB/Fuses) definitions and what to use where
• Earth Leakage devices (RCB/RCD/ELCB/GFCI/ALCI/RCBO), definitions and what to use where
• Lightning strikes and surge protection devices (TVSS/SPD), how they operate, where to use and how to install
• Power cabling and cable run considerations
• PDU/DB setup and minimum requirements

Generators;

• Component make up
• Choosing the required device
• Calculate required fuel storage tank capacity
• Paralleling of gen-sets
• Regulatory requirements

UPS Systems;

• Required specifications for UPS systems
• How to read data sheets and select the correct UPS
• Requirements for parallel configurations and avoid pitfalls such as single point of failures
• How parallel installation should be done, classic mistakes made by installers and how to avoid these

Harmonic Filters;

• Type of filters available and which one to select depending on the application

Battery Banks;

• Designing battery banks, how to calculate, and double check the battery bank to be installed
• Battery charging pitfalls and ensuring the right charger is being installed and used
• Using parallel battery banks; how to properly install them, limitations and risk when using batteries in parallel
• How to test batteries correctly and make decisions on cell/block or string replacement
• Battery casing choices; ABS, V0, V1, V2
• Alternative energy storage; flywheel, re-useable cell etc.

Advanced Electro Magnetic Fields

• Differences between single, three phase and bus-bar EMF
• Options available to measure EMF and how to interpret the results from single axe and composite measurements
• Guidance on safe distance for equipment and humans
• Calculation of EMF attenuation factor for shielding material permeability and saturation factors

Advanced Cooling

• Environmental class definitions and thermal specifications
• Equipment airflow and Delta-T definitions and limits
• Planning for floor, rack and cooling equipment
• CFM requirement calculations and conversions
• Air-conditioner specifications and how to select the correct air-conditioner with the required capacity and flow
• Techniques for optimization of air flow
• Redundancy guidelines for air-conditioners avoiding classic misconceptions
• Liquid cooling guidelines for data centres

Advanced Fire Protection

• Fire triangle and elements to stop a fire
• Detection systems in detail (VESDA, VIEW, Smoke sensors)
• Considerations for installation of sensors
• Difference in water based systems i.e. dry-pipe, pre-action and why most of them don't work and how to detect this
• Details on Inert, Halocarbon, fluorinated systems and how to select the correct gas for your data centre
• How to calculate the gas content ensuring the appropriate level is installed to suppress the fire
• Other requirements for gas systems (release times, hold times, pipe install requirements and other important factors
• Requirements for the fire panel
• Installation verification, what to check and how
• New fire suppression techniques which prevents fires from igniting

Cable Management

• In rack power and network cabling
• Labelling based on TIA-606

Environmental Specifications

• Acoustic noise regulations, specifications, effects and limits
• Data centre contaminations and classifications
• Measurements, standards and limits
• Preventive measures and avoidance
• Electro Static Discharge (ESD)

Data Centre Effciency

• Power effciency indicators
• How to measure it and what are acceptable numbers compared to the general industry
• How to achieve power savings in the data centre; various techniques to save energy in all parts of the data centre i.e. application/system level, cooling, power distribution

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.