Let’s get physical, Datanauts. Today we talk about the key elements of building a physical data center: data cabling, racks, HVAC, power, and then managing all of that stuff.

The death of the physical data center is greatly exaggerated, and today we build the perfect data center beast. Our guest architect is John Kerns, Principal Network Engineer for an IT professional services company. John blogs at PackeTsar and co-hosts the InfoTrek podcast. He’s also an active developer on GitHub.

Show Links:

Explain: Tier 1 / Tier 2 / Tier 3 / Tier 4 Data Center – NixCraft

Data Center Power and Cooling White Paper – Cisco

Back to Basics: Power – John Kerns (via Packet Pushers)

Back to Basics: Cooling – Part 1 – John Kerns (via Packet Pushers)

Back to Basics: Cooling  –Part 2 – John Kerns (via Packet Pushers)

Datacenter Vanity – John Kerns (via Packet Pushers)