Advent Calendar for Your Data Center:
The Gift of Infrastructure Uptime
The best gift for your data center, business operations, and peace of mind
is a strategy to enable availability and efficiency for the entire year.
This Advent Calendar reveals tips and best practices to avoid unexpected downtime.
Open each gift for reminders on how to care for your critical physical infrastructure.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
We made a list – please check it twice! Each gift reveals a tip to make your data center nice.
Schedule regular and preventive maintenance for critical equipment, including thermal systems, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and generators.
Schedule periodic seasonal inspections and replacement
of filters to anticipate and prevent possible issues during times of extreme temperature.
Keep commonly used spare parts on hand, or use a service provider that keeps them in stock.
Maintain detailed maintenance
records to have a clear status
of system health.
Prioritize continuous staff training
to reduce human error - a common cause of downtime.
Keep your operations running like clockwork Scheduled Maintenance
Provide access to crisis management documentation and make sure your team reviews it thoroughly.
Conduct emergency drills to ensure that the team is prepared and knows how to respond efficiently.
Reinforce the importance of following standard procedures and establish clear and effective communication with your team.
Simplify the infrastructure by consolidating providers to ease management and fault resolution.
Standardize spare parts and processes to streamline recovery and minimize the impact of interruptions.
Consider modular designs in your data center to facilitate updates and expansions without disrupting operations.
Incorporate redundancy solutions in critical infrastructure to ensure service continuity in case of failures.
Look for technologies that address challenges like energy efficiency, modular capacity and reliability.
Consider UPS with lithium-ion batteries for longer runtime and shorter recharge time. Use cooling systems with intelligent management to provide visibility and control for your data center environment.
Integrate technologies gradually, ensuring you have the necessary expertise and capacity before fully relying on them. Uptime Institute recommends “in the long term, greater investment and experience, and the use of advanced monitoring and optimization technologies, will help to reduce failures more significantly”.
Call a data center equipment provider that can support you through concept, design, and engineering of your data center through installation, maintenance, and operation. Vertiv has the scale, expertise and portfolio to support an efficient, available and future-friendly data center.
Prepare your team for the big events Staff Training
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Use the very best equipment for a magical outcome Effective Technologies