Aisle containment and environmental monitoring

Skills you'll practise

• Explain the difference between hot- and cold-aisle containment and what the rest of the room feels like with each
• Find common containment leaks (doors, open units, gaps, misplaced tiles) from photos and diagrams
• Place inlet sensors correctly and read a temperature trend against thresholds and access logs
• Choose a safe response to rising inlet temperatures and escalate with evidence

Course outline

1. 1.Aisle containment and environmental monitoringVideo · 2 min
2. 2.Containment: keeping supply and exhaust apartLesson · 15 min
3. 3.Monitoring: sensors, thresholds and trendsLesson · 15 min
4. 4.Cooling units: what a technician should knowLesson · 13 min
5. 5.Aisle containment and environmental monitoring: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 31 questions
6. 6.Aisle containment and environmental monitoring: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
7. 7.Cold aisle heating up during a contractor visitScenario
8. 8.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• ASHRAE TC 9.9: Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments
• ANSI/TIA-942: Telecommunications infrastructure standard for data centers
• General data-center operations practice