Data Center Infrastructure Management
Course Description
In this course you will get comprehensive, vendor-neutral training led by a data center expert. You will discuss the most pertinent topics in the data center industry: power, cooling, energy efficiency and the “green” data center, management tools, and integrating IT Service Management. Using case studies and real-world examples to illustrate key points, this course provides the knowledge you need to more effectively operate your data center. You’ll gain the skills to better assess data center efficiency, availability and power and cooling issues, and you will gain substantive knowledge that you can take back to your data center to reduce costs and improve service to the IT users. Bring your data center electric bill and configuration with you, and we’ll show you how much money you can save by implementing a more energy-efficient data center!
What You’ll Learn in Class
- Power and cooling infrastructure in the data center and how hardware and configuration impact energy efficiency and availability
- Methods to improve data center energy efficiency
- Practical steps to implement ITIL
- Management tools available to help you optimize data center performance and availability
- How to measure the IT Service Management metrics that really matter
- How to monitor your data center to optimize performance and availability
- What impacts data center availability and how you can improve it
Who Needs to Attend
- Anyone who wants to learn more about the data center infrastructure and effective, proven methods to improve energy efficiency and management of a data center
- Data center facilities managers and engineers, IT managers, data center infrastructure managers and data center operations staff
Course Content
- Overview of Data Centers
- Data Center Cooling Strategies
- Fundamentals of Availability and Preventative Maintenance
- Data Center Physical Security
- Fundamentals of Power
- Data Center Energy Efficiency
- Practical Steps to Implement ITIL
- Designing a Data Center Floor Plan
- Data Center Management
- Measuring ITSM in the Data Center