You are confident in the environment you have created as a part of the facilities group. Metering and managing data center power to the PDU or Branch Panel without issue, responsibility is released to the IT team. It is in these last few feet of power distribution where exposure still resides without visibility and where over-consumption at the rack level will cause downtime.
Facility teams must understand what is happening with IT equipment to assure uptime to the CIO.
Why settle for branch circuit monitoring when you can have visibility all the way to the IT system while providing capacity management? Few changes occur in data center infrastructure above the PDU. However, many occur between the branch panel and the IT rack. Even more in the IT rack itself.
Facility managers and engineers have struggled for years trying to understand power consumption in relationship with IT projects. Provision of additional resources from the PDU or branch panel ideally takes place with an understanding of committed resource consumption. Lack of knowledge leads to overconsumption, creating unneeded risk and requiring additional business resources to transfer circuits to panels with more capacity.
How will you access the knowledge required to manage your power distribution infrastructure? BCM solutions alert you to over-threshold conditions but fail to provide an accurate inventory of the infrastructure necessary to support IT growth. There may be as many as 10 metrics necessary to understand capacity from the PDU level to the IT hardware.
How many problems could be prevented if systems were able to provide knowledge related to: PDU (kW & phase amps), Branch Panel Mains (kW & Phase Amps, # Poles), Branch Circuit (kW & Phase Amps), Rack Power Strip Breakers ( kW & Phase Amps), Rack power strips (Outlet kW)
NORLINX Global Site Management (GSM™) is a complete intelligent management solution, combining real-time results with historical knowledge. See where you are, how you got there, and design where you're going based on real information.
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