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 Let's now look at some of the important maintenance activities for datacenter components.
 
-|Component|Maintenante activity|
+|Component|Maintenance activity|
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 |**Hardware maintenance**|- Servers & storage devices: This includes monitoring and replacing malfunctioning hardware, performing routine checks, and upgrading components like memory, storage devices, and processors. Regular updates and patches also fall under this category.</br> - Networking equipment: Maintenance of routers, switches, and other networking hardware to ensure continuous data flow. This includes cleaning, replacing faulty parts, and updating firmware.</br> - Power systems: Maintaining power supplies, UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) systems, backup generators, and batteries to ensure a consistent power supply. Any signs of wear or battery degradation need to be addressed.|
-|**Cooling system maintenance**|- VAC (Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning): Ensuring cooling systems are operational and effective, checking air conditioning units, and replacing air filters to maintain optimal temperatures in the datacenter. </br> - Chillers and cooling units: Regular inspection and servicing of chillers, cooling units, and airflow systems to ensure that they provide adequate cooling for all hardware. </br> - Airflow management: Monitoring the airflow within the datacenter to avoid hotspots, ensuring that cold and hot aisles are maintained effectively.|
-|**Power and electrical maintenance**|- Electrical distribution systems: This includes maintaining power distribution </br> - units (PDUs) and electrical panels, ensuring that power is distributed efficiently to all equipment. </br> - Backup power systems: Testing and maintaining backup generators and UPS systems to ensure power continuity during outages. Regular battery checks and load testing are also part of this maintenance. </br> - Energy efficiency: Regularly assessing the datacenter's energy consumption to improve efficiency, minimize waste, and implement energy saving measures.|
-|**Security maintenance**|- Physical Security Systems: Regular checks and updates of access control systems, biometric scanners, security cameras, and alarm systems to ensure the physical security of the facility. </br>- Cybersecurity measures: Ensuring that firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, encryption protocols, and antivirus systems are up to date and functioning effectively to protect data from cyber threats. </br> - Surveillance: Routine checks of CCTV systems and monitoring software to identify any physical or digital security risks.|
-|**Environmental monitoring and maintenance**|- Temperature and humidity control: Constant monitoring and adjustment of the datacenter's temperature and humidity to ensure that conditions remain optimal for equipment. Adjustments are made to HVAC systems as necessary. </br> - Water leakage detection: Installing and maintaining water leak detection systems to prevent flooding from affecting critical equipment. </br> - Smoke and fire detection systems: Ensuring fire suppression systems and smoke detectors are operational, along with testing fire alarms and extinguishers to mitigate any risk of fire.|
-**Software and firmware maintenance**|- Operating system and software patches: Keeping the operating systems of servers and other hardware up to date with patches and security updates to protect against vulnerabilities. </br> - Firmware updates: Regularly updating firmware on hardware devices like servers, network equipment, and storage to enhance functionality, security, and compatibility. Monitoring and alerting systems: Maintaining software tools that monitor the health of the datacenter's systems (network, servers, power, etc.), ensuring they're up to date and optimized.|
+|**Cooling system maintenance**|- VAC (Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning): Ensuring cooling systems are operational and effective, checking air conditioning units, and replacing air filters to maintain optimal temperatures in the datacenter.</br> - Chillers and cooling units: Regular inspection and servicing of chillers, cooling units, and airflow systems to ensure that they provide adequate cooling for all hardware.</br> - Airflow management: Monitoring the airflow within the datacenter to avoid hotspots, ensuring that cold and hot aisles are maintained effectively.|
+|**Power and electrical maintenance**|- Electrical distribution systems: This includes maintaining power distribution </br> - units (PDUs) and electrical panels, ensuring that power is distributed efficiently to all equipment. </br> - Backup power systems: Testing and maintaining backup generators and UPS systems to ensure power continuity during outages. Regular battery checks and load testing are also part of this maintenance.</br> - Energy efficiency: Regularly assessing the datacenter's energy consumption to improve efficiency, minimize waste, and implement energy saving measures.|
+|**Security maintenance**|- Physical Security Systems: Regular checks and updates of access control systems, biometric scanners, security cameras, and alarm systems to ensure the physical security of the facility. </br>- Cybersecurity measures: Ensuring that firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, encryption protocols, and antivirus systems are up to date and functioning effectively to protect data from cyber threats.</br> - Surveillance: Routine checks of CCTV systems and monitoring software to identify any physical or digital security risks.|
+|**Environmental monitoring and maintenance**|- Temperature and humidity control: Constant monitoring and adjustment of the datacenter's temperature and humidity to ensure that conditions remain optimal for equipment. Adjustments are made to HVAC systems as necessary.</br> - Water leakage detection: Installing and maintaining water leak detection systems to prevent flooding from affecting critical equipment.</br> - Smoke and fire detection systems: Ensuring fire suppression systems and smoke detectors are operational, along with testing fire alarms and extinguishers to mitigate any risk of fire.|
+**Software and firmware maintenance**|- Operating system and software patches: Keeping the operating systems of servers and other hardware up to date with patches and security updates to protect against vulnerabilities.</br> - Firmware updates: Regularly updating firmware on hardware devices like servers, network equipment, and storage to enhance functionality, security, and compatibility. Monitoring and alerting systems: Maintaining software tools that monitor the health of the datacenter's systems (network, servers, power, etc.), ensuring they're up to date and optimized.|
 |**Data backup and disaster recovery**|- Backup Systems maintenance: Ensuring that data backups are being properly made and stored. This involves checking the health of backup systems, ensuring redundancy, and verifying that backup data is recoverable. </br> - Disaster recovery testing: Regularly testing disaster recovery protocols to ensure that, in case of a failure, data can be restored quickly and the datacenter can be brought back online with minimal downtime.|
-|**Documentation and record keeping**|- Maintenance logs: Keeping detailed records of maintenance activities, repairs, system updates, and any incidents. This helps to track patterns, anticipate potential issues, and provide insight into the efficiency of the maintenance program. </br> - Compliance and audits: Ensuring that all maintenance activities adhere to industry standards and compliance regulations (such as ISO 27001, HIPAA, etc.). Regular audits help verify that the datacenter is compliant with regulatory requirements.
+|**Documentation and record keeping**|- Maintenance logs: Keeping detailed records of maintenance activities, repairs, system updates, and any incidents. This helps to track patterns, anticipate potential issues, and provide insight into the efficiency of the maintenance program.</br> - Compliance and audits: Ensuring that all maintenance activities adhere to industry standards and compliance regulations (such as ISO 27001, HIPAA, etc.). Regular audits help verify that the datacenter is compliant with regulatory requirements.