THE EDGE
available for those servers and failover
redundancy is clear are key components
of high availability of services. A
dedicated power dashboard will help you
improve uptime and efficiency with KPIs
like power capacity remaining, power
usage trends by cabinet or individual
make/model of servers, breaker utilisation
trends and stranded power capacity.
Environment. Data centre mangers need
to make sure that their equipment is
operating safely within manufacturer or
ASHRAE guidelines to avoid downtime
or overcooling. By monitoring important
environment metrics such as latest
inlet temperature per cabinet, delta-T
per cabinet and maximum temperature
per cabinet, you can ensure optimal
conditions, increase energy efficiency
and identify hot spots.
A MODERN,
SECOND-
GENERATION
DCIM SOLUTION
WILL PROVIDE
ACTIONABLE
INSIGHTS
IMMEDIATELY
WITH ZERO
CONFIGURATION
REQUIRED.
Enterprise health. For dynamic views
of an enterprise’s data centre health
on a single pane of glass, you need an
enterprise health dashboard. In such a
dashboard, each location is represented
by a colour-changing tile based on live
power and environmental readings.
Capacity and health status are shown
with easy-to-understand red/yellow/
green indicators along with important
information such as critical events,
temperature, current power usage and
available capacity.
Enterprise overview. For data on all
locations or sites across your entire
enterprise, consider an enterprise
overview dashboard. Monitor KPIs like
floor space capacity, data port usage by
connector, stranded power, cabinet space
capacity, average temperature, historical
item counts, pending requests per stage,
budget power capacity and total actual
active power to easily compare and
contrast key operational KPIs across all
your sites.
What-if. To know the potential impact
of a change in your data centre on a
per-project basis, you’ll need a whatif
dashboard. Easily understand how
power capacity, rack units space
capacity and power redundancy
will be affected by additions and
decommissions of equipment. With this
information, you can quickly plan, model
and understand if additional resources
are necessary in order to meet demand,
or perhaps utilise existing resources and
defer capital expenditures.
FOR DYNAMIC
VIEWS OF AN
ENTERPRISE’S
DATA CENTRE
HEALTH ON A
SINGLE PANE
OF GLASS,
YOU NEED AN
ENTERPRISE
HEALTH
DASHBOARD.
Many data centre managers likely
already leverage charts and reports in
some form, but perhaps pulling data
from disparate systems or spreadsheets.
Storing data across multiple, separate
sources without seamless integration
leads to inaccuracies and errors and
reduces your ability to effectively and
efficiently manage your data centre
remotely. Data that is limited, out of date,
or untrustworthy becomes difficult to
rely on to make the most informed and
reliable decisions. Worst, you may need
to travel to the data centre to confirm
your information.
Data Centre Infrastructure Management
(DCIM) software make remote data
centre management easy by providing a
single source of truth that is updated and
visible in real time. DCIM makes it easy
to identify and eliminate inefficiencies
like overprovisioning and stranded
capacity and to avoid unexpected and
unnecessary expenses.
A modern, second-generation DCIM
solution will provide actionable insights
immediately with zero configuration
required. Leverage over 100 interactive
dashboard widgets out of the box, filter
data for faster pinpointed analysis, or
export for use in a third-party system. With
secure, shareable links that respect rolebased
access, you can drive a culture of
collaboration around common data centre
KPIs and dramatically enhance remote
data centre management. ◊
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