Intelligent energy management lets you track and target energy use to detect, pinpoint, and correct over-provisioning. And with a smart view of your entire system, the software allows you to set more energy-efficient, cost- effective availability thresholds—without risk to system uptime given the software’s drilled-down monitoring capabilities of the entire power train, building-to-rack cooling, and the IT room.
As authors Torben Karup Nielsen and Dennis Bouley note in Schneider Electric white paper, How Data Center Infrastructure Management Software Improves Planning And Cuts Operational Costs, “By correlating power, cooling and space resources to individual servers, DCIM tools today can proactively inform IT management systems of potential physical infrastructure problems and how they might impact specific IT loads. Particularly in a highly virtualized and dynamic cloud environment, this real-time awareness of constantly changing power and cooling capacities is important for safe server placement.” StruxureWare for Data Centers software is among this advanced class of intelligent DCIM tools.
Handle increasing IT complexity Additionally, StruxureWare for Data Centers software uniquely integrates with leading virtualization management platforms (e.g., VMware®
vSphere™ and Microsoft®
Also automated are workflow tools that allow operators to assign work orders, reserve space, track status, and extract an audit trail for complete visibility and history to the change cycle when equipment goes in and out. Maintenance schedules, moreover, can be mapped out accurately within the context of ongoing operating conditions and the state of the systems.
The full system benefits from these robust DCIM capabilities. In the long run, Schneider Electric data center physical infrastructure with integrated StruxureWare for Data Centers software can save companies up to 30 percent in data center physical infrastructure costs over 10 years through optimized resource and energy management. As a facilities or data center manager, you now can tap your data center to deliver strategic business value through energy-efficient availability and proven agility.
By bridging facilities and IT, StruxureWare for Data Centers software enables operators to balance efficiency and availability with peace of mind.
Intelligent DCIM software can do this: System
Center Virtual Machine Manager) to provide built-in automated response capabilities. What this means is that virtual loads always have healthy host environments; if a host server is threatened by overheating or other issues, the software can move the dynamic load automatically before risk escalates.
> Analyze and optimize existing resources > Analyze airflow in real time > Determine the impact of infrastructure failure on IT > Track your carbon and resource use > Identify excess capacity > Generate a PUE across facilities and IT > Maximize uptime by monitoring power quality > Report average and peak power usage by rack > Move at-risk virtual loads automatically to healthy hosts > Generate an audit trail for all asset changes > Provide graphical representations of systems > Calculate recommended IT installation locations > Manage space and cages in multi-tenant facilities
For references and best practices, read “How Data Center Infrastructure Management Software Improves Planning and Cuts Operational Costs” at
whitepapers.apc.com
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