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Infrastructure Management for
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Data Centre Power Management
Running out of power in your data centre?
In recent years, the demand for IT has increased dramatically. At
the same time, the cost of industry-standard servers has decreased
dramatically. Combine these two things with the introduction of
disruptive technologies like virtualisation and blade servers, and
you can easily see why it is more difficult than ever to get a
handle on power consumption in the data centre.
Power bills continue to rise and the availability of power is often
constrained. This leaves both IT and facilities managers wondering
which equipment is consuming the most power in the data centre. They
wonder which equipment is contributing useful work to the business.
And, they wonder how much power capacity they have before they add
additional equipment to the data centre. As the rapidly increasing
cost of powering equipment often exceeds the initial purchase price
of the equipment it self, it has become imperative that data centres
understand power consumption at a granular level.
Viridity EnergyCenter measures power consumption at the device level
using an unobtrusive software-only approach that is both quick to
deploy and quick with results. With EnergyCenter, data centres are
able to run a discovery and locate all networked equipment in hours
instead of weeks.
The initial discovery provides information at the component level so
you have a comprehensive understanding of how a device is configured
and how much power the device is using in total.
With this “bottoms-up” approach to measuring power consumption,
managers can understand how much power is being consumed at the
device, rack, row and at the data centre level. And, they get
invaluable data on how equipment is being utilised.
Measuring power usage needs to be dynamic. Taking a one time
snapshot of power consumption is misleading and can do more harm
than good. As the utilisation of devices ramps up or down to meet
demand, so to does the power consumption. A single power snapshot
may leave you thinking you have more power than you do -- a
dangerous situation.
Viridity EnergyCenter monitors the power consumption over time and
allows you to view changes in power draw and utilization. This
provides a more realistic and actionable profile of how your devices
are consuming energy which assists you in avoiding outages and
right-sizing your data centre.
EnergyCenter 2.0 Enhancements
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User Defined Asset Grouping
Ability to group or filter assets based on application,
owner and/or contact enables users to connect physical and
virtual assets to applications and lines-of-business (i.e.,
budgeting and chargeback capabilities). |
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Advanced Auto Alert
Ability to assign power and utilization thresholds and be
auto-notified when thresholds are exceeded. |
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VMware Virtual Guest Power
Analysis
Monitoring and power consumption analysis of virtual guests
- uncovers virtual machine sprawl and identifies
underutilized virtual assets. |
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Enhanced Import/Export
Import/export asset information – eliminates cumbersome
reconciliation between legacy asset management systems. |
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Heat Mapping
Graphical overlay reports of top power consumers,
underutilized servers and BTU output visualizes actionable
information. |
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Extended Data Centre Genome Database (GxDB)
Database extended with thousands of additional measured
server power profiles, as well as storage and switch
specifications. |
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