Building Secure IT Server Room

Building Secure IT Server Room

Despite Cloud and Datacenter technologies breakthrough need for local server rooms still exists. Often the only resource available for server room design is IT support or IT project manager with no or not enough knowledge about the task. Our research combines information and ideas available in sources like datacenter standards and best practices, server room facility providers’ sites, Internet technical discussions and author’s own experience and provides short but complete instruction, what should be done and taken in consideration to produce a secure server room. The results of research include description of interdependencies which exist in facility design area, so the research can be used in several special cases; however, practitioner’s consideration is to be used in every specific project.

Contains:

1. Introduction .........................................................................................

2. Method ...............................................................................................

3. Building Secure Server Room.....................................................................

1.1 Location....................................................................................

1.2 Space Requirements and Separate Rooms Solutions ...............................

1.3 Walls, Doors and Ceiling ................................................................

1.4 Floor........................................................................................

1.5 Overhead Cable Trays ...................................................................

1.6 Power Supply..............................................................................

1.7 Uninterruptable Power Supply .........................................................

1.7.1 One or many UPS’s? ............................................................

1.7.2 UPS Classes ......................................................................

1.7.3 Could UPS cause explosion?...................................................

etc...

Number of pages: 60