Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology, Rod Snevely's 220 page book, is now available here as a free download. The book attempts to walk readers through the design process, offering a method for creating a design that meets the requirements of your data center. But rather than being a simple book of designs, the book is rather a tool to work through data center requirements and to discover solutions to create the best design for those requirements.

The contents include:

• 1. Data Center Design Philosophy
• 2. Data Center Design Criteria
• 3. Designing a Data Center
• 4. Determining Data Center Capacities
• 5. Site Selection
• 6. Implementing a Raised Floor
• 7. Power Distribution
• 8. HVAC and Other Environmental Controls
• 9. Network Cabling Infrastructure
• 10. Shipping, Receiving, and Staging
• 11. Avoiding Hazards
• 12. Environmental Contaminants
• 13. Codes and Construction
• Appendix A. Managing System Configurations
• Appendix B. Bibliography and References

Snevely contends that the "watts per square foot" approach to data center design is outmoded and inefficient because it produces inadequate and incomplete results. Instead, he takes a more inclusive approach that involves many different variables such as the housing structure, all of the utility and network feeds necessary to keep the center operational, and the storage and processing power of the hardware. Balancing all of these variables to design a data center that meets the project scope and keeps the center in constant operation, he writes, can easily become a hit or miss operation if not carefully planned. Snevely's newer method looks more closely at room and equipment capacities using rack location units (RLUs) to plan the data center.

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