Data Center Cooling Professional
- Framework: Level 3
- PDHs 21
- Duration: 3 day intensive classroom
- Locations:
San Francisco 18/06/2012 3 Days Book now View all locations - Languages: English / Spanish
- Fees: $2250 / €1725 / £1425
The fundamental physical nature of any data center is the conversion of electrical energy into heat and its subsequent dissipation. The so called ‘high density’ era has made thermal management of a data center facility a complex issue, one where availability and efficiency can often conflict. This course has been developed to give individuals a more granular understanding of the key challenges that data center operators face when making IT and network hardware investments and their effect on cooling infrastructure as well as the complexities of managing change.
The course is NOT intended to teach an individual to be able to specify or operate ALL aspects of a
data center’s cooling infrastructure without the assistance of technology area experts. However upon
successful completion of the course (and framework) they should be a more informed participant in the design and operations process, and the management of third party subject matter experts.
Course outline and main topics covered
Day 1 and 2
- Environmental requirements: recommended and allowable ranges
- Advanced airflow & temperature management
- Cooling system configuration best practice and liquid cooling options
- ICT hardware selection and room configurations
- Equipment placement, installation and decommissioning
- Optimizing reliability and TCO in new and legacy data centers
- High Density options and implementation strategies
- Cooling system data gathering, monitoring and control
- Hotspot mitigation: Airflow modelling and heat mapping techniques
- Free-cooling and new thinking around energy efficiency
- Humidification, contaminates and air make-up
Day 3
Part 1: Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics, and other predictive technologies.
Working with data center simulation technologies, students will work with the instructors to recreate common change management scenarios within different facility types to better understand environmental implications, design and system pitfalls as well as energy efficiency optimization. Scenarios to include:
- How to deal with new disruptive technologies such as unifed computing platforms, blade servers and high density networking devices
- Best fit air containment configuation including chimney racks and plenum return: advantages and disadvantages
- AC unit selection and location considerations in non-standard built environments
- The impact of infrastructure on airflow dynamics
Part 2: Overview and discussion of multiple high density deployment case studies as published by ASHRAE's TC9.