Target group
The primary audience for this course are professionals involved with designing, building, maintaining and operating mission critical data centres and those who wish to attend the CTIA®(Certified TIA-942 Internal Auditor) course.
Course structure
Introduction to Data Centre Facilities
About the ANSI/TIA-942
- Life of the ANSI/TIA-942 Standard
- Relation to other standards
- Architectural
- Electrical
- Mechanical
- Telecommunication
- Areas under scope
- High level redundancy definitions
- Redundancy options (N, N+1 etc.)
- Fault tolerant
- Concurrent maintainability
- Compartmentalisation
- Examples of redundancy levels
Data Centre Space Planning
Data Centre Topologies
Recommendations for Energy Efficiency
Architectural
- Site selection
- Parking
- Multi-tenant building
- Building construction
- Vapor barrier
- Roofing
- Floor loading
- Raised flooring
- Suspended/drop ceiling
- Hanging load
- Seismic
Building Security & Safety
- Security
- CCTV
- Staffing
- Bullet/ballistic proofing
- Lighting
- Safety
– Signage
Building and Room Access
- Security checkpoints
- Entry lobby
- Doors and windows
- Exit corridors
- Shipping and receiving areas
Room/Area Design Requirements
- Administrative offices
- Security offce
- Operations centre
- Restroom and break room
- UPS/Battery rooms
- Generator and fuel storage area
- Computer room
Electrical
- Utility power
– Substation
– Feed requirements
– Self-generation - HT/HV switch gear
- Generator and fuel supply
- LT/LV switch gear
– ATS
– Alternatives to ATS - UPS and batteries
- PDU
- STS
- Grounding
- Surge protection
- EPO
- Central power monitoring
- Load banks
- Testing
- Equipment maintenance
– Preventive maintenance
– Facility training programs
Mechanical
- Environmental design
– Temperature and humidity requirements
– Contamination
– Sources
– Clean air
– Pressurisation
– Radio sources
– Vibration
– Water ingress - Water cooled systems
– Heat rejection
– Chilled water system
– Condenser water
– Make up water - Air cooled systems
- HVAC control systems
- Plumbing
– Pipe routing - Fire suppression
- Water leak detection
Telecommunications
- Network topology
- Redundancy level design
- Media and connectors
- Cabling pathways
- Detailed cabling design considerations
- Administration and labeling
- Cable testing
- Data centre fabrics
