Kannegieter College provides the most relevant and real life Data Centre courses available in Europe. This course is an ideal follow-up on Data Centre Design Course (DCD) or Data Centre Primer (DCP) course. If you are responsible for managing a Data Centre and want to assess your own Data Centre or if you wish to audit Data Centres on behalf of your customers then this course is right for you.
Who should take this course
Prerequisites
What will you learn?
Course content
Who should take this course
Anyone wishing to audit/assess data centres for resilience, energy efficiency, security and best practice.
Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites for the course.
What will you learn?
How to prepare and carry out an audit
What to look for, how to interpret what you find through observation and measurement
How to perform a gap analysis
How to write a report and what should be in it
What certification means and, who can certify and how to do it
Understanding and assessing resilience, energy use, capacity and health and safety
Course content
Introduction to data centres auditing:
How to prepare and carry out an audit
What to look for, how to interpret what you find through observation and measurement
How to perform a gap analysis
How to write a report and what should be in it
What certification means and, who can certify and how to do it
Understanding Resilience:
Relevant data centre standards
Understanding reliability and resilience models
‘Tiers’ and ‘Classes’ and ‘N’ models
Identifying Single Points of failure
Understanding Energy Use:
Relevant data centre standards Understanding the key factors affecting energy consumption Methods of reducing energy consumption Measuring the effectiveness of energy saving methods Key Energy Metrics: PUE etc.
Understanding Capacity:
Power
Cooling
Space
Connectivity
Understanding Health and Safety:
Staying safe during the audit
Auditing for unsafe practices
Preparing for the audit:
Managing the customer’s expectations
Informing the customer of their part in the process
Documentation Review
Auditing tools
Physical Audit and Inspection:
Including assessment of Resilience, Energy Use, Capacity, Health and Safety, Location, Architectural, Power, HVAC, Environmental Conditions, Fire Detection and Suppression, Communications Cabling, Security and DCIM
The site visit step by step
What order to do things
What to record, when and where
Using a checklist
Tips from auditors with over 30 years’ auditing experience
Writing the Report:
eport format
What should be in the report
Analysing the data collected at the site visit
Writing techniques to help with understanding
Producing a GAP analysis
Making recommendations
Verification of your findings and conclusion
After the Audit, Certification and Compliance:
What is certification?
Who can certify?
Validity of certification?
Developing an action plan (short, medium and long term goals)
