What is the minimum Frequency I should be cleaning my Data Center?
February 11, 2012 by Renzo Although there are many benchmark levels and consistent building specs followed by most data centers – every data centers has unique operations, equipment and personnel circumstances. Some have human operators in the room all the time everyday, some have almost no human traffic – whereas some have equipment that emits high amount of belt debris or hydrocarbons and others do not.
The main concern in determining the frequency of cleaning your data center is your operations as a unique data center. SET3 tests 8 data points on every full service clean including air particle counts, surface contamination and more according to ISO Standard 14644-1 through 9, WHO a& ASHRAE to help you confirm a tailored schedule to fit your operations.
Some Data Centers reduce risk by having day-to-day, weekly or monthly dust maintenance program with our Data Center Cleaning Technicians – while others set up a maintenance program on a quarterly, semi-annual or yearly basis. Among typical data centers with low foot traffic and up to code with the latest equipment, air and building technologies – a good baseline is as follows:
Minimum Frequency Recommendations for newer low traffic data centers:
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| Subfloor Plenum Cleaning | Cleaning, inspection of source of contaminates / building structure and air quality testing |
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| Top of Access Floors | ULPA and anti-static cleaning leaning of the top of conductive access floor tiles |
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| VCT Strip and non-conductive Coating (if applicable) | Removing the ESD Coating using antistatic HEPA filtered equipment and chemicals and recoating with a fresh ESD protection Layer |
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| Ceiling Plenum | Cleaning the plenum in the ceiling between the drop ceiling tiles and the roof |
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| Equipment / Cabinet Exterior Cleaning | Cleaning of the Exterior of the equipment / equipment cabinets |
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| Interior Server / Equipment Cleaning | Ionized antistatic cleaning of the interior of servers |
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There are other surfaces in a data center that may need cleaning also. For more information – contact SET3 representative (888) 935-0620.