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Server rooms should be audited and inspected regularly to ensure critical infrastructure systems are fully operational and ready to provide protection, monitoring and control of this most sensitive of environments. Typical systems including power, cooling, fire suppression and monitoring. In this article we cover some of the key questions we ask during an audit and inspection.

When you purchase a UPS system or any other type of capital goods like a precision cooling system, it is important to consider what is referred to in engineering as the bathtub curve. Why is this important? Well at some point during the working life of your new system you may have an alarm condition that requires technical support and an emergency call out and if you are not covered by a UPS maintenance contract then this could be a chargeable service.

The infrastructure systems within a server room or data centre are classed as either critical, essential or non-essential. The three most common critical infrastructure systems are power, cooling and fire suppression, followed by environmental monitoring and security systems. Regular inspections and preventative maintenance are required to ensure that these infrastructure systems are reliable and available 24/7.

We expect modern electronic and electrical systems to be energy efficient and require minimal preventative maintenance. How true is this of a modern high-efficiency uninterruptible power supply?

Uninterruptible power supplies are no different to other critical systems (cooling and fire suppression) within a server room or data centre environment. For a UPS system to provide no-break backup power on demand, it must be regularly inspected and maintained. Most UPS failures are down to poor battery health, leading to shorter than expected runtime and IT load downtime. There are other factors that can also limit the ability of a UPS to keep critical loads running and like battery health, they can only be identified and/or prevented from regular inspection and maintenance.

With winter upon us it is surprising how many uninterruptible power supplies are in use and not regularly maintained. Not surprising a lot of these UPS systems tend to be the smaller single phase and three phase UPS systems that can be scattered across a large site or hidden away in server racks and computer rooms.

Server rooms should be designed to provide a secure and managed environment in which to run critical IT servers and network infrastructures. Facilities vary in size from IT closets to computer rooms, Edge to regional and even hybrid datacentres. Whatever the size of the setup, each will have a core set of systems that require regular inspection and maintenance in order to ensure their uptime and resilience.

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