Racks, Rails and Equipment Installation
Getting equipment into racks correctly, followed through a technician's work at Stonebridge Data's campus in Ashburn, Virginia: cabinets and their parts, rack units and load ratings, receiving and staging, moving and leveling cabinets, rails and cage nuts, installing servers, switches and storage, rack elevations and capacity, A and B power at the rack, blanking and containment, labeling and asset records, decommissioning with chain of custody, and installing a liquid-cooled AI rack.
DCT-130 12 lessons · 3 h 52 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Data Center Operations
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Identify racks, cabinets and integrated racks and every part of a cabinet, and inspect a cabinet before use
- Use rack units, the EIA-310 hole pattern, equipment depth and the static, rolling and shipping load ratings correctly
- Receive, inspect, record, unpack and stage equipment so that damage is caught and packaging stays out of the halls
- Plan and carry out a cabinet move within the limits of doors, ramps, floor tiles and slabs, and position, level and bond the cabinet
- Install cage nuts, rail kits, shelves and mounting hardware correctly and safely
- Install servers, switches and storage to a ticket and elevation, with correct airflow direction, and report what is found
- Check a cabinet's space, power, cooling, weight and port limits and identify which it will reach first
- Connect equipment to A and B rack power strips, balance phases and manage cords so that redundancy is kept
- Keep hot and cold air apart at the cabinet with blanking panels, seals, containment and tidy cabling
- Label cabinets, devices, cords and cables to the site's identifier scheme and keep asset records accurate
- Decommission equipment safely, with positive identification, chain of custody for media and an equipment removal authorization
- Take part in the installation of an integrated liquid-cooled AI rack under a method of procedure
Course content
12 lessons · 3 h 52 min total · final exam
- 1 Racks and cabinets in the data center 19 min · quiz
- 2 Rack units, sizes and load ratings 19 min · quiz
- 3 Receiving, unboxing and staging equipment 20 min · quiz
- 4 Moving and positioning cabinets 19 min · quiz
- 5 Rails, cage nuts and mounting hardware 19 min · quiz
- 6 Installing servers, switches and storage 20 min · quiz
- 7 Rack elevations and capacity planning 19 min · quiz
- 8 Power at the rack: PDUs, A/B feeds and cord management 19 min · quiz
- 9 Hot and cold aisles, blanking and containment at the rack 19 min · quiz
- 10 Labeling and asset tracking 19 min · quiz
- 11 Decommissioning and removing equipment 19 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: installing a rack of AI servers in Hall D 21 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Getting equipment into racks correctly, followed through a technician's work at Stonebridge Data's campus in Ashburn, Virginia: cabinets and their parts, rack units and load ratings, receiving and staging, moving and leveling cabinets, rails and cage nuts, installing servers, switches and storage, rack elevations and capacity, A and B power at the rack, blanking and containment, labeling and asset records, decommissioning with chain of custody, and installing a liquid-cooled AI rack.