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The document summarizes a visit to the Debre Tabor University datacenter, which is currently under construction. During the visit, the network administrator gave a tour and explained the various components currently in the two-rack server room, including firewalls, routers, switches, wireless access points and controllers, and servers. Backup systems like redundant servers and an uninterruptible power supply were also observed. The second phase of the visit previewed the newly constructed datacenter room that will house expanded systems and technology once completed in three months. The datacenter upgrade is expected to advance the university's learning and teaching processes through new digital capabilities.

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Title: - DTU Data Center Visiting Your Name: - Henok Mesfin ID - NO: - 71/10

The document summarizes a visit to the Debre Tabor University datacenter, which is currently under construction. During the visit, the network administrator gave a tour and explained the various components currently in the two-rack server room, including firewalls, routers, switches, wireless access points and controllers, and servers. Backup systems like redundant servers and an uninterruptible power supply were also observed. The second phase of the visit previewed the newly constructed datacenter room that will house expanded systems and technology once completed in three months. The datacenter upgrade is expected to advance the university's learning and teaching processes through new digital capabilities.

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Title: - DTU Data Center Visiting

Your Name: -Henok Mesfin ID_NO: -71/10


Introduction
Our visiting to on-premise Datacenter of Debre tabor university were held on Monday June 07-
2021 with the aim to distinguish or find out different component of the datacenter. The
Datacenter of DTU is under construction which is intended to be completed after three months of
construction. The data center building is being built in the main campus of Debre Tabor
University with tender/bid winner Huawei which is a leading global provider of Information
Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.
Visit in detail

Our visiting stared in the afternoon at 2:30PM. The first person we find there was Mr. Facil who
is a Network Administrator and IT Expert for Debre Tabor University. Mr. Facil gave us a tour
to the datacenter. Our first visit was at a two rack-mounted servers’ room where the current
system is implemented, in this room we sawed how the servers are configured and wired, for
instance the ISP(Ethio-Tele) cable which is known as fiber optics cable is connected or welded to
a patch panel which has 12 cores and for the internet purpose only one core is used, this pass
core cable is connected to the Firewall, were often used as a barrier between a trusted and
untrusted network and the firewall is known as Fortinet Firewall. This firewall connects to router
and filters all traffic before it gets distributed throughout the campus network. And the firewall is
wired with routers/Multi-Layer-Switch this router/multilayer switch have a NAT (Network
Address Translation) which helps to assign a private IP address to each device that connects to
the network and also helps to translate private IP addresses to public when a user needs to
connect to the internet. Multi-Layer Switch is a device which act as a switch when a switch is
needed and as a router when a router is needed.
The Firewall and Multi-Layer Switches DTU Datacenters

The other device we sawed in the server room is the Wireless LAN Controller (WLC), this
device is used to manage wireless access points and out-door access point that allow wireless
device to connect to the network, the main task that WLC is needed is for seamless connection
for devices when they are changing from one access point to the other and one other thing is, it is
used to configure the access point like for example in the case of DTU there are about three
access points available in the campus (DTU-STUDENTS, DTU-STAFFS, DTU-GUESTS).

Out-Door Access Point


In-door Access-Point

Wireless LAN Controller (WLC)

UCS (Unified Computing System) is the other device we sawed. Mr. Facil told as that UCS are
device that are used for wireless security purpose and that it is not implemented on the datacenter
architecture of DTU.
Unified Computing System (UCS)

Our final visit to this room was to the servers, these servers are basically three and two servers
were Dell brand and one server was a Mac server. The first server was used to store students’
grade and the second Dell server is used to perform task that a Lecturers submit students’ grade.
The Mac server were used during Covid Pandemic period for students to access E-resources
from the platform provided.

Dell-server
Mac-server

The second rack is for redundancy purpose, where it serves as when system failure occurs it will
replace the first rack. This server room also contains AC that maintains the temperature of the
room for efficient and effective performance of the servers. The last device we sawed there is a
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) which supports the datacenter to maintain its power when
there is a fluctuation of power. This UPSs has several batteries that take over when it detects a
loss or reduction of available power.

Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)


The second phase of our visit were in a newly being constructed datacenter room which will
contain several parts after the construction gets done. This datacenter room is newly designed
and it is expected to level up the technology firm for the university in the future. It is planned to
be compilated after three months.

Discussion
A fruitful visit we had in the datacenter of Debre Tabor University which helped as to know
what a datacenter might look like and what components are included in the datacenter and
how devices are configured and the task that a device performs in a datacenter.
Conclusion
A Data Center have a huge impact on the world we live in. As we are leaving and heading to
the digital world, the impact of building a world class datacenter has a huge impact for the
university community as well in the learning teaching process because the future learning
teaching process would be expected to be in virtual, apart from that it is one step ahead for
the university to advance in newly coming technology.
Reference

1.datacenteracademy.microsoft.com/

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