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 One of the major concerns facing data centre planning & implementation teams is that of providing sufficient power. New technology, such as blade servers, requires greater capacity, which also has an impact on ensuring continuity of supply. Add to this, the escalating cost of energy, and the requirement for management information and control becomes ever more critical.
 Thus a reliable and robust power supply to the network environment has to address:
- Adequate capacity for existing & future needs
- Monitoring, measuring & reporting power usage via multiple clients
- Billing stream capability for hosted clients
- Unauthorised use of power outlets / equipment deployment
- System load management (phase balancing, capacity planning etc)
- Recovery of locked servers via remote IP power cycling
- Alarming & trending of system/rack/PDU/outlet level overload conditions
Status information can be gathered locally or remotely via secure authenticated IP access (LDAP) with RMS voltage, amps & kWh being easily visible or trended and displayed graphically.
But why should you monitor (and manage) power?
- Capacity planning
- Early warning
- Phase balancing
- To re-boot (including remotely)
- To facilitate:
- Alerting
- Reporting
- Trend Analysis
- To reduce risk
Comrac has a wide range of hardware, such as platform controllers, standard & special Power Distribution Unit (PDU) types including monitoring only and monitoring & control capabilities. Combined with the web-based class-leading Enterprise Device Manager software solution, users can monitor and control potentially thousands of devices securely from a single console. We offer solutions to the above with the following range of products:
Please download the pdf data sheets from the links above, or contact us to discuss this further. The environmental monitoring benefits of the Hawk-i2 and Power-Hawk products are explained further here.
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