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Early adoption breeds success Across the globe, companies are turning to Data Centre Infrastructure
Management (DCIM) to help their capacity optimisation challenges. Emerson Network Power examines a few of those organisations that have adopted such solutions to explore the benefits, drawbacks and to share learnings. By Werner Kühn, Vice President EMEA Avocent Products and Services, Emerson Network Power.
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eadquartered in Heerlen, Netherlands, Algemene Pensioen Groep (APG) manages collective pension schemes for over 20,000 companies. It manages approximately €240 billion and employs more than 5,000 people. In recent years, APG has undergone rapid expansion and now has a large and complex IT infrastructure, including over 1,000 servers located in six data centres across three countries.
APG was set up so that each major site had its own IT team to manage the data centre. Each team had its own way of working, so it was difficult to ensure a standardised response in different locations. Moreover, people were constantly going in and out of the facilities leaving room for human error – reducing the number of data centre
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visitors would help limit the number of problems encountered. So, it was decided to adopt a centralised ‘lights out’ strategy, where all IT administration work could be carried out remotely by people working at a different site.
APG rolled out the new Avocent® ACS advanced console server serial appliances and DSR KVM over IP switches as part of its main infrastructure refresh. Now, whenever a new rack of servers is installed, it contains a DSR switch that provides KVM access to all the servers in the rack. All serially managed equipment is connected via ACS advanced console servers. Access to the equipment is governed by the DSView 3 management software, which provides a single central point of control for the entire infrastructure.
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