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| Whether it's a full-blown Data Centre, a
medium-sized Computer/Server Room or a distributed Communications
Room, all should be planned, designed, created and operated to the
same set of Best Practices. For detailed information on Computer
Rooms use the left hand menu options. | | | | Permanent Structural Room- This is the most common type. Designed and built within an existing
building or as a separate standalone facility, whose sole use is
housing IT equipment.
Modular/Re-locatable Room - suitable
for areas (including outside), where a permanent room is impractical
or costly, (e.g. a warehouse or car park.) or for companies who may
have a need to move premises regularly. They are constructed of
modular panels and don't need existing walls.
Comms Room in a rack - Suitable for locating
small amounts of critical equipment such as networking equipment in
normal office space or small rooms. |  | | |
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| Lights Out - It
is a “lights out”, “clean” and secure room with only minimal need
for physical operator entry
Layout- Racks are in predefined locations ensuring adequate service clearances
Power - The Room is protected by a centralised UPS and optionally a
Generator to ensure a good and consistent power supply even during
power failure
Climate - Downflow A/C provides a stable
climate and is designed to enable optimal air flows
Power and
Data Cabling - Both are structured with simple power and network
connection mechanisms ready for each rack location
Fire
Protection - The construction prevents fire spread and it has at
least fire detection and possibly Fire Suppression equipment
Monitoring - It is environmentally monitored for all risk
factors (fire, smoke, water leak, temperature, humidity, equipment
failure, power failure, Server and network outage) and alerting
centralised to the Operations Centre
Management -
Equipment is provided to facilitate easy access of all servers both
within the room and externally over IP to allow for ‘hung’ Servers
to be rebooted and managed from a remote site as well as remote
power control | |
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