Place/Property

Where it is located
surronding areas and security
climate conditions and natural calamity
water resources
fire station
police station
Power station and backup
facilites in the location(food, transport etc)
distance from vendor's place
Telephone exchange and internet service provider location
Design considerations(Energy efficient methods)
raised floor
ceiling
power, UPS, generator
cooling methods
air flow controller
structured cabling(fibre)
placement of Servers, switches, cables, meeting room, KVM control
loading and unloading place any obstructions(possibility of vechile movement)
Security : card, biometric
monitoring of the space and equipment
directions within the floor and labelling equipment
power points, power surge and electrical safety
uptime and tier
growth plan and future reqruirement
Zoning(servers, switches, routers, cables, reception, office space)
Requirement, load and redundancy
number of servers
which application
how many users
what is the avg load
bandwidth for servers, power, cooling, UPS, Internet
redundacny for every equipment
type and make of servers
type and make of Switches, routers and cables
monitoring softwares
naming standards
security :fire, flood and others
growth plan and future reqruirement
Equipment configuration/backup and DR
Servers, switches, cables, racks, routers
UPS, Generator
ISP(2)
IP addressing
public Ips
floor and ceiling type
fire, flood and other disaster protection
users and password standards
Standards for securing the environment and equipment(GPO, Firewall & Hardnening)
growth plan and future reqruirement
backup and restore methods
DR
Greening
how can we implement Greening methods in every phase
Audit and quality certifications
3rd party audit of data center and making ready for quality certifications