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Course Outline
Day One
Welcome and Student Introductions
Tab 1 – Introduction to the IT Industry
- Technology trends
- Historical servers, storage, network improvements
- Future trends driving the industry
- Technology uses
- Data generation
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Technology supporting infrastructure
- Data center facility types
- Electricity usage and sustainability
- Network and usage
Tab 2 – Properties of Moist Air
- Temperature and humidity
- Enthalpy and pressure
- Psychrometric chart
- Sensible and latent heat
- Mixing of two air streams
Tab 3 – ASHRAE and Environmental Criteria
- ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9
- ASHRAE air cooling environments
- ASHRAE air contamination guidelines
- ASHRAE liquid cooling environments
- ASHRAE data center standards
Tab 4 – Defining Uptime Expectations
- Standards and guidelines
- Best practices
- Mechanical system topologies
- Electrical system topologies
- Performance analysis and optimization
- Risk and availability assessment
Tab 5 – Data Center Architecture
- Data Center layout
- Planning a data center floor (Cold Aisle / Hot Aisle)
- Raised floor vs. non-raised floor
- Cabling
- IT placement
Day Two
Tab 5 – Data Center Architecture (continued)
- Air cooling
- Air flow configurations
- CFD analysis
Tab 6 – Data Hall Design Considerations
- Owner’s Project Requirements (OPR)
- ITE Load
- Pysical arrangement
- Uptime expectation
- Data Hall Cooling
- Perimeter cooling
- Liquid cooling
- Data Hall power distribution
- Power Distribution Units
- Critical power distribution
Tab 7 – Mechanical System Design
- Data Center cooling loads
- Mechanical plant equipment
- Chillers
- Heat rejection systems
- Economizers
- Performance metrics
- Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
- WUE and CUE
Tab 8 – Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
- Technologies
- Topologies
- Electrical capacity management
Day Three
Tab 9 – IT Equipment
- IT equipment and workloads
- IT equipment thermal design
- Air cooling implementations
- Liquid cooling implementations
- IT interaction with data center
- X factor reliability analysis
- Pressure, DT, airflow
Tab 10 – Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
- Define and reference
- Goals and use cases
- Reporting structure
Tab 11 – Electrical Codes and Standards
- NFPA 70, National Electrical code
- NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the workplace
- NFPA 75, Standard for the fire Protection of Information Technology Equipment
- IEEE Std. 1100, IEEE Recommended Practice for Powering and Grounding Electronic Equipment (IEEE Emerald Book)
Tab 12 – Electrical System Design
- Utility service and voltage classes
- Standby power and emergency generators
- Primary power and transfer switches
Tab 13 – Case Studies
- Tier IV with 2,400 kW IT Load (NJ)
- Conversion from existing Tier II
- Tier III with 2,400 kW IT Load (MN)
- Equipment galleries
- Tier III with 6,400 kW IT load (CO)
- Modular data halls
- Tier III with 8,200 kW IT load (NC)
- Capacity increase after initial build