A DAY (NIGHT) in the LIFE of a NOC ENGINEER!

[Music] evening phil hello [Music] hello okay hi my name is raf i'm a knock team leader here at custodian data centers and you guys will be following me around for tonight's night shift because we don't stop we go 24 7. that includes knights cool and if you tell us a little bit about the knock and what you guys monitor up here yeah this is the knock stands for network network operation center we do all kinds of monitoring and all the kind of office work happens here as well yeah mostly computer work the graphs displays all sorts of stuff from power to cooling to network activity it's all that okay i'll fix it myself somehow thanks dennis google shoes right over here so the first thing i always do during the night so i do the nightly checks which is to walk around all the infrastructure bits we're gonna see if everything's fine uh if there's an issue they're gonna report it or we're gonna fix it depends what it is usually there's none hopefully there will be none so yeah as soon as i'll get this one part you can guys follow me and see what's going on the pumps and two on the other farm all of them all together capable of running entire data center when there's a power cut so the things i'm trying for is basically making sure they're correctly in the auto mode if they are manual mode i need to go and set them start them up when you lean obviously with this auto they detect the problem themselves it starts running but that's what i'm looking for i need to make sure it's all gonna be good [Music] as they run on diesel they need to be at least one barrel full of spillage and there it is [Applause] there we go see some more that's good we've just looked at the generators the next step to make sure all power is good we go to the ups rooms so we've got two over here and two more for the data for four so we're gonna check them one by one so there are ups in there and ats's i'll show you basically it is one of our many ups rooms here we have two devices really an ats so we're looking at all the three phases all of the three phases needs to be on and showing power we need to have a ups output and then obviously if they are generators running they'll be output all degenerate but since obviously generators are not running at the moment there's no issues with power or zeros across the board on the generators we're gonna go to the data files now uh we're gonna have a look at customer racks the first thing we're looking for is if there's a blank incorrectly installed one is basically the material that fills the blank use spaces to make sure airflow is correct what type of floor is this let's take the floor so what we're looking at right now is planting we need to make sure the black is correctly installed it doesn't let any hair grow you can isolate the inside inside the holder yeah we use evaporative cooling system it's uh kind of a new one and it's not the standard one it's not some all of the data centers they're using sure too yeah it's much more efficient but it's much more complicated it's not just air from outside being pumped into the lake and we process that we make it more humid we cool it then we dry it and then we pop it back in the mix there we are in the checklist when it all happens because the air coming from the outside it's getting humid by the room next to it and this is the device that makes the moment this is when what has been processed is the water and i can even tell you how often do we need to do maintenance on it political unit was running 403 hours with the maintenance every one thousand all hours so we are done with all the checks so right now i'm gonna go and sit by my desk i'm gonna read all the emails i've got some catching up to do uh we'll monitor the staff for at least a couple of hours and then we'll see if there's any support that needs to be done for our clients good evening custodians love speaking how can i help hi roger what's going on i don't know oh i see so it's a e6i server so what can it do for you can i open an ssh shell okay yeah no problem i'm gonna go ahead and do it right now for you i'll open this as a shell and i'll let you know when it's done all right yeah cheers thank you bye all right so we've just had client asking for support remote hands uh we're gonna be opening ssh show in esxi server it should be quite straightforward and we can go and have them do it right now [Music] [Applause] okay so what we've just done for the client i've opened the ssh shell in esxi which we've asked me to do and now i'm gonna talk to him i'm gonna send him an email thing that is done and we'll go from there we'll see if he's gonna be fixing his problem himself from here or now or are we gonna help him more okay so what are you going to do next i'll be testing some fibers now doing some of the deer and what you guys need to do because with fibers it's not as easy as it is with copper cables because the fiber is just a glass tube so there's a light coming through it and there's a chance that it's going to be some reflection and if there's an reflection the clients can have receivers on their ends or something like that so we need to make sure that the fiber everyone is perfect [Applause] you want to see my laser light there it is can you explain yeah essentially that's the laser that we've just turned on in my computer and that's the light we're seeing that's being emitted so yeah completely control the light travels the glass tube so the fiber and that's the fiber we're testing there we go fingers crossed okay that's a pass across on the 1300 kilometer spectrum so there are two different wavelengths this is multi-mode fiber two different wavelengths thirteen hundred nanometers and eight hundred and fifty nanometers this little machine it tests both of the wavelengths for the fiber and then searching for reflections and there we go we just finished both of them both wavelengths 1300 and 850 nanometers all right let's see where i found good night my friends thank you see ya morning rough you're right all right i'm done for tonight guys i'll see you tomorrow all right thanks for joining me tonight remember to give this video a thumbs up subscribe leave me a comment leave me two comments and i'll see you around thank you [Music] you

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Keywords: data centre, engineer, a day in the life, night shift, IT, team leader, Kent, London, South East, UK data centre, business video, datacentre

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Length: 12min 36sec (756 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 19 2018

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