Rackwise DCiM X is Enterprise-Class in DCIM Software
By Ed Higgins
Be forewarned, this is a commercial.
Rackwise DCiM enables complete Visualization of your entire data center infrastructure from all of your the data center locations world-wide to power and cooling equipment to all of the racks to the devices (and modules/components inside each device) and full cable management (power and network). Rackwise extends this visualization strategy into Cloud and Virtualized environments. Extensive Documentation capabilities are built into the solution for comprehensively managing today’s complex and globally disparate data center environments. Modeling, and unlimited “what if” scenarios as well as capacity analytics are core components of our solution (superior to all other solutions). Rackwise provides you the ability to analyze data in tabular and rich graphical formats. Make informed decisions, enable day to day efficiencies, distribute compute services using global options for "best-cost" services, and efficient operations necessary for proactive Management of tomorrow's data centers, TODAY, with Rackwise .
Intelligent Placement, a powerful capability found inside Rackwise since 2005, is facilitated by Rackwise‘s revolutionary product functionality to identify the “best place” to deploy an asset based on available capacity for power, current, cooling, weight, contiguous rack units (RU), available power and network ports, and other criteria based on the business requirements needed for a given asset. This dramatically helps data center managers put critical assets where resilience, capacity, and redundancy are optimal, similar to the industry methods leveraged in the tiered data storage space where you put your critical data where the resilience is greatest and your less critical data on less costly infrastructure. Rackwise helps customer identify these opportunities and optimize their equipment based on the needs of the business customer.
Rich Visualization provides a dashboard display for a high level view of the data center. Selectable layers can be added to display power consumption, heat generation, current, and either power or signal port availability. Additional layers can be added to display door swings, hot cold aisles, location and density of perforated tiles, etc., to create truly customized displays. Users can drill through to greater detail, from the data center, to the rack, to the device, and components, including: blades, power supplies, drives, etc.
Detailed Documentation provides clear and descriptive reporting on the IT infrastructure. Powerful Modeling allows the user to perform unlimited “What if” scenarios. Rackwise quickly determines the impact of data center consolidations, or the resource consumption associated with new data centers. The user can make detailed comparisons of proposed equipment upgrades versus the current environment. Trend and historical reporting provides crystal clear visibility into where resources are being consumed over time, and when they’re likely to be exhausted.
Comprehensive Analysis provides instant access to critical information and enables decision making capability on key data center issues. Direct access to information such as availability of space, power, heat and cooling, port availability, and remaining weight capacity in racks, allows the user to make critical decisions with confidence. Rackwise Advanced Power Management provides the ability to explore the power system, understand the redundancy levels of critical servers, and other equipment. Rackwise advanced power also provides full understanding of the impact of power source, UPS, or PDU shutdowns. Further the system determines if the remaining power infrastructure will be over taxed in the event of an outage, resulting in a cascading failure situation.
With over 100 standard out-of-the-box Reports, who needs to custom reports? Rackwise Standard Reports range from assembly report that provides step by step instructions to assemble and cable a solution, to connectivity reports, to simulating a cascading power or equipment failure to improve resilience, to delivering weekly or daily power consumption reports, environmental reports, and asset management reports. If you want custom reports, we also include an enterprise-grade reporting engine to easily create sophisticated reports designed for your unique business model. If you don't have time or resources to make any customizations to your reports, then Rackwise can do it for you.
Sophisticated Management capabilities allow the user to deploy and decommission devices quickly and easily. Track equipment through receiving, staging, commissioning, decommissioning, and storage. In addition, Rackwise tracks changes to the data center infrastructure at the data center, rack, and device levels. Custom properties can be used to map applications or other information to devices, providing a clear understanding of what impact the shutdown or failure of the device will have. Planning for new equipment is greatly simplified with Rackwise ability to locate and reserve space, power, cooling, ports, and weight load availability. Additionally, advanced searching is made easy to help you locate physical infrastructure components based on your search criteria.
Don't you owe it to your CEO to explore Rackwise today? Rackwise can help you save at least 20% on your power costs, and reduce your costs in many other areas. If you spend over a million $$ on your annual power bill, then that's a ton of immediate bottom-line value - and that's just the start.
I hope you enjoyed this article, and I hope it was helpful.
Until next time,
Ed
