Data Center and Disaster Recovery Centers (BIT437CO)
Modern data center design, power redundancy, fire protection, cooling optimization, cloud data centers, and enterprise disaster recovery planning.
Unit 1: Introduction to Data Centre5 hrs
- Defining a modern enterprise data centre
- Identifying the main data centre types: Enterprise, Colocation, Managed, and Cloud
- Business service delivery options and SLAs
- Emerging delivery models and future computing demands
Unit 2: The Role and Objectives of a Data Centre7 hrs
- Driving factors and business value for establishing a data centre
- Data centre standards (ANSI/TIA-942, Uptime Institute Tier Standards I-IV)
- Data centre availability models and uptime considerations
- Location selection, civil building, and geophysical hazard considerations
- Analyzing reliability, MTBF, and MTTR in the data center
- Data center energy efficiency metrics: PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) and DCiE
- Data center system capacity planning
Unit 3: Design Overview and Infrastructure10 hrs
- Criticality and availability considerations
- Fire protection methods in the data center: gaseous suppression (FM-200, Novec 1230), pre-action sprinklers
- Structured cabling strategies (horizontal, backbone, fiber vs copper, cable trays)
- Thermal management: maintaining humidity, hot/cold aisle containment, CRAC/CRAH units
- Physical security: biometric access, perimeter security, surveillance cameras
- Power management: utility feeds, diesel backup generators, UPS topologies (N, N+1, 2N), and PDUs
- Physical infrastructure: server rack fundamentals (42U), floor loading, row vs room-based cooling
- The four key constraints (4C's): Power, Cooling, IT Infrastructure, and Space
Unit 4: Managing the Data Centre6 hrs
- Regulations, best practices, and operational processes (ITIL, ISO 27001)
- Moves, adds, and changes (MAC) processes and change management
- Efficient energy management and thermal audit techniques
- Asset lifecycle and secure decommissioning processes
- Logical, IT, and network perimeter security integration
Unit 5: The Data Centre Industry and Market5 hrs
- Global and regional market size and economic drivers
- Hyperscale data center trends and edge computing
- Powering the Internet: green energy adoption, carbon neutrality, and renewable power
- Case studies of modern hyperscale facilities (Google, Microsoft, AWS)
Unit 6: Cloud Data Center4 hrs
- Cloud data center architecture and software-defined infrastructure (SDDC)
- Virtualization layers: compute, storage (SAN/NAS), and software-defined networking (SDN)
- Multi-tenant isolation and cloud workload orchestration
Unit 7: Disaster Recovery Center Formulation and DR Plans8 hrs
- Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) formulation steps
- Business continuity planning (BCP) vs disaster recovery: RTO and RPO metrics
- Data backup strategies: Full, Incremental, Differential, and continuous replication
- Cloud-based disaster recovery (DRaaS) architectures
- Disaster recovery site tiers: Cold site, Warm site, and Hot site architectures
Reference books
- Lowe, Scott D., James Green, and David Davis, Building a Modern Data Center: Principles and Strategies of Design, ActualTech Media, New York.
- Arregoces, Mauricio and Maurizio Portolani, Data Center Fundamentals, Cisco Press.
- Khan, Samee Ullah and Albert Y. Zomaya, Handbook on Data Centers, Springer.
- Rothstein, Philip Jan, IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies, Wiley Publishing Inc.
- Snevely, Robert, Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology, Prentice Hall.