DURATION: 3 days (24 hours)
COURSE INTRODUCTION
CDCS is the advance level for Data Centre Professionals and this 3-day course will further increase attendees to a level being a compatible sparring partner with suppliers and they will be able to verify offers provided by vendors for correctness, effectiveness and efficiency.
CDCS is the second training in the EPI Design and Build training track under the EPI Data Centre Training Framework. Participants must hold a valid CDCP certificate in order to be able to register for the CDCS class. CDCS itself is a pre-requisite for persons wishing to achieve the CDCE status.
COURSE OBJECTIVE
After finish the course, student will have knowledges and skills 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 oers proposed by vendors/contractors
- Understand redundancy levels for both the data centre design/setup and maintenance
- Understand the various building considerations such as bullet proofng, 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 configuration, 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 fire suppression options, how to calculate gas content and verify installations
- Understand how to measure data centre energy efficiency and how to improve it
AUDIENCE
The primary audience for this course is an IT, Facilities or Data Centre Operations professional working in and around the data centre (representing both end-customers and/or service provider/facilitators) and having responsibility to achieve and improve hi-availability and manage ability of the Data Centre, such as: Data centre managers, Operations / Floor / Facility managers, data centre engineers, network/system engineers/data centre sales/consultants.
PREREQUISITES
Participants must hold a valid CDCP® certificate in order to be able to register for the CDCS® class.
RELATED COURSES
- CDCP - Certified Data Centre Professional
- CDCE - Certified Data Centre Expert
COMPLETION CERTIFICATE
- After finish the course, student will receive completion certificate issued by SmartPro.
- Attendees passing the exam will be awarded the internationally accredited and recognized Certified Data Centre Specialist certificate (CDCS). CDCS is world-wide accredited by EXIN.
COURSE CONTENT
Module 1: Data Centre Design/Life Cycle Overview
- Overview of the phases of a data centre life cycle
- Planning, re-alignment and continuous improvement
Module 2: Standards and Rating Level Definitions
- Rating level history
- Difference between Uptime and TIA-942
- Rating level definitions
- Redundancy options (N+1), 2N, 2(N+1)
- Concurrent Maintainability/Compartmentalisation
- Example configurations
- Substation and feed requirements
- Maintenance options
- Operational processes guidelines/standards
- Skill development
Module 3: Building Considerations
- Building location considerations
- Floor and hanging loads requirements
- Fire rating for walls and glass
- Blast protection
- Bullet proofing
- Forced entry protection
Module 4: Advanced Raised Floor & Suspended Ceiling
- Raised floor installation guidelines
- Techniques to install a proper and leveled raised access floor
- Common mistakes
- Choosing the right tiles and their locations
- Seismic-mitigating floor constructions
- Choosing the correct suspended ceiling
Module 5: Advanced Power
- Power infrastructure layout
- Generators
- UPS Systems
- Harmonic Filters
- Battery Banks
Module 6: Advanced Electro Magnetic Fields
- Sources of EMF
- Difference between single, three phase and bus-bar EMF
- Options available to measure EMF and how to interpret the results from single-axes and composite measurements
- Guidance on safe distance for equipment and humans
- Calculation of EMF attenuation factor for shielding material permeability and saturation factors
Module 7: Advanced Cooling
- Important definitions; dry-bulb, wet-bulb, dew-point, RH, sensible and latent heat
- Psychometric chart and ASHRAE recommendations
- Environmental class definitions and thermal specifications
- Temperature/humidity measurements guideline
- Heat dissipation methods
- Altitude impact on temperature intake to ICT equipment
- Floor plan setup for effective cooling
- Differences in tile surface and supporting structure and the air-flow performance impact
- Rack door construction and the flow performance impact
- Equipment Delta-T and its impact
- Optimising airflow
- Thermal units conversions
- Calculations for air volume displacement (CFM/CMH)
- Cooling capacity calculations
- Air-conditioning selection
- De- / humidifying options
- Air conditioning efficiency
- SHR impact on cost saving
- Efficiency indicator
- New cooling principle and techniques (Submerged, VSD/VRF/ECF/water- and air side economisers)
- Redundancy guidelines for air-conditioners avoiding classic misconceptions and mistakes for meeting ANSI/TIA-942 compliant designs
- Installation requirements
- Connections to fire panel and EPO
- Commissioning of air conditioners
- Set points and calibration
- CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
Module 8: Advanced Fire Protection
- The fire triangle and elements to stop a fire
- Detection systems in detail (VESDA, VIEW, smoke sensors)
- Considerations for installation of sensors
- Proper testing of smoke sensors
- Water based systems i.e. deluge, wet-pipe, dry-pipe, pre-action and why most of them don't work and how to detect this
- Details on Inert and Halocarbon systems and how to select the correct system for your data centre
- How to calculate the gas content ensuring the appropriate level is installed to suppress the fire including safety considerations
- Other requirements for gas systems such as release times, hold times, pipe install requirements and other important factors
- Requirements for the fire detection panel
- Installation verification, methods, what to check and how
- New advanced fire suppression technologies
Module 9: Design and Install Scalable Networking Cabling System
- ANSI/TIA942 cabling structure topology
- ToR, EoR Design
- Intelligent patching systems
- Installation best practice such as routing, bending radius, separation from power, containment fill ratio, fiber link loss calculator, bonding and grounding requirement
- Standard for telecommunications labeling and administration
Module 10: Environmental Specifications and Contamination Control
- Acoustic noise effects, regulations, specifications and limits
- Data centre contaminations and classifications
- Measurements, standards and limits
- Preventive measures and avoidance
Module 11: Data Centre Efficiency
- Business drivers to go Green
- High-availability or Green?
- Green guidelines and standards
- How to measure it and what are acceptable numbers compared to the general industry
- PUE classes defined by Green Grid and issues with PUE
- Techniques for saving energy in all parts of the data centre i.e. application/system level, cooling, power distribution
EXAM: Certified Data Centre Specialist
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