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

• Understand the design life cycle of data centres and the stages involved
• Discuss the data centre requirements at a great level of detail with vendors, suppliers and contractors to ensure that these requirements are met
• Validate design plans, quotes and offers proposed by vendors/contractors
• Understand redundancy levels for both the data centre design/setup and maintenance
• Understand the various building considerations such as bullet proofing, mitigation of seismic activity, re 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 re suppression options, how to calculate gas content and verify installations
• Understand how to measure data centre energy eciency and how to improve it

Data Centre Design/Life Cycle Overview

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

Standards and Rating Level Definitions

• Rating level of 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

Building Considerations

• Building location considerations
• Floor and hanging loads requirements
• Fire rating for walls and glass
• Blast protection Bulletproofing
• Forced entry protection

 Advanced Raised Floor & Suspended Ceiling

• Raised floor installation guidelines
• Techniques to install a proper and levelled raised access floor
• Common mistakes
• Choosing the right tiles and their locations
• Seismic-mitigating floor 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
• Overcurrent 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
• Sizing of protective components
• 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;

• Generator types: Standy/Prime/Continuous
• Component make-up and functions
• Fuel storage and calculation
• Paralleling of gen-sets
• Generator room/area requirements

UPS Systems;

• Required speci cations 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;

• Active/Passive filters and their application

Battery Banks;

• Battery bank terminology
• 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 risks 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; wheel, re-usable cell, compressed air UPS, etc.

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-axis 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

• 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 set up for effective cooling
• Differences in tile surface and supporting structure and the air-ow 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 re panel and EPO
• Commissioning of air conditioners
• Setpoints and calibration
• CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)

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

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 ll ratio, fibre link loss calculator, bonding and grounding requirement
• Standard for telecommunications labelling and administration

Environmental Speci cations and Contamination Control

• Acoustic noise effects, regulations, specifications and limits
• Data centre contaminations and classifications
• Measurements, standards and limits
• Preventive measures and avoidance

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

Mock Exam: CDCS - Certified Data Centre Professional

The primary audience for the CDCS course are:

• IT, Facilities or Data Centre Operations professionals working in and around the data centre (representing both end-customers, service providers and/or facilitators);
• Professionals that have the responsibility to achieve and improve the high-availability and manageability of the Data Centre, such as:
  • Data centre managers
  • Operations managers
  • Floor managers
  • Facility managers
  • Data centre engineers
  • Network engineers
  • System engineers
  • Data centre sales
  • Consultants

• Before attending this CDCS course, participants must hold a valid CDCP certificate in order to be able to register for the CDCS class.