Student Data Center Specialists are responsible for data center support including cable management, server support, inventory support, and general organization and cleanliness of the IT data centers. Specialists also provide support by maintaining diagrams, documents, and spreadsheets for the data center and other virtualization and storage services.
Duties and responsibilities includes:
Cable management operations:
Running new cables and removing old cables.
Labeling cables and documenting cable connectivity.
Testing cables for reuse/disposal.
Server support operations
Mounting/removing servers in racks.
Connecting/disconnecting power and network cables.
Configuring remote management connections.
Documenting additions, changes, and removals of servers in the VIS documentation repository/wiki and CMDB system (Cherwell).
Inventory support:
Surplus Preparation (Storage removal and disk wiping).
Document inventory status changes in VIS documentation repository and UNM inventory system (AppTree).
Audit data center systems bi-annually and investigating differences between visual inventory, UNM inventory system, and VIS Documentation.
VIS documentation repository operations
Develop new and modify existing documents in repository using MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.
Create and modify diagrams using Visio/LucidChart.
Migrate and organize document repository.
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