Data Center Handbook: Plan, Design, Build, and Operations of a Smart Data Center (2nd Edition)
Author / Issuing Authority: Hwaiyu Geng (Wiley) • Category: Food, Foraging & Household Self-Reliance
Comprehensive 900-page engineering reference on server room power distribution (Tier I–IV), N+1 UPS design, precision cooling & fire suppression.
Why This Manual Matters in a Grid-Down Outage
Whether you manage a 2-rack SME comms room or a 50-rack regional hospital server suite, this handbook covers the thermal, electrical, and structural standards required for 99.99% uptime.
Plant-Room & Field Operational Takeaway
Rack kW heat-load equations, A+B dual-bus power distribution, EPO (Emergency Power Off) safety interlocks, gaseous fire suppression, and hot/cold aisle containment.
Maintaining a physical dead-tree edition of Data Center Handbook: Plan, Design, Build, and Operations of a Smart Data Center (2nd Edition) (ISBN-13: 978-1119597506) in your plant room, comms rack, or site incident grab-bag ensures engineers and duty wardens have immediate access to statutory tables, pinouts, and safety protocols when cloud documentation portals and corporate intranets are unreachable.
Paired Commercial Hardware & Test Instruments
- [RL-KIT-057] Server Room Cat6A RJ45 Termination, PoE++ Wiremap Tester & FTDI Serial Console Recovery Kit — Price confirmed at launch
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