As Data Centre’s evolve and adapt to meet the requirements of the business, IT is put under more pressure to manage Logical and Physical infrastructures, whilst looking at ways to reduce the time it takes to bring services online and increase their MTBSI (Mean time between service incidents).
With this fact, all IT Assets within the existing data centre must be considered when a service needs to be added, or physical moves or changes need to be made.
Quick Facts
- 56.9% of businesses are using Excel and Visio for Rack Configuration, design and capacity planning.
- 65.6% of companies are using Excel for change and configurations management for the physical elements of IT Infrastructure.
Planning for these changes in the Data Centre and analysing the impact a change will make, is key to ensuring an effective implementation. But there is a risk attached.
Avocent MergePoint® Infrastructure Explorer removes the risk associated with Data Centre change by providing visualised documentation of data centre assets and their utilisation, enabling accurate and comprehensive capacity planning in addition to detailed assistance for operational maintenance activities.
In addition Infrastructure Explorer also allows you to connect to and manage devices visualised in the application.
Here’s how AMIE can help you
Visual Modelling
This will provide you with a graphic view of your data centres, racks and individual IT elements within a rack, providing detailed visual information to aid in the day to day operations of the physical data centre (i.e. where is the email server – row 3, rack b, U 20-24)
This significantly reduces the time to respond to issues, plan changes and things of that nature.
Asset Identification and Location
The ability to search for assets by type, domain name, IP address etc providing the physical location in addition to other general asset information; provides specific information for locating a device (i.e. recalled power supply type-x – visual indications of which racks and servers need to be worked).
Capacity Visualisation
At a glance view of available capacity and potential issues for space, power, heat/cooling, weight and network; provides accurate information for planning and reduces time needed to implement additions and changes to the data centre.
Equipment Library
High fidelity images of assets with data on size, weight, power usage, BTU output etc; feeds data centre capacity metrics and shows details of assets for hands on operations and maintenance support.
Planning and Design
Allows for creating multiple ‘what-if’ scenarios to understand the impact of a change or addition to the data centre; enables data centre optimisation for space, power, weight, heat/cooling, and network.
Questions it can help to answer
- How much power is in my Paris Data Centre?
- How much heat am I putting out, and do I have enough cooling?
- How much rack capacity do I have left?
- Have I overloaded any racks?
- Where do we install the new servers?
- Where are all of our finance servers located?
- What physical changes occurred in the last 3 days?
- What will happen if we…?
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