iTRACS DCIM: Keeps your critical assets available

When your business-critical IT services
need to stay online, you need iTRACS
DCIM - Availability
iTRACS CPIM®: K
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Optimize Availability with CPIM® Power Management
Your servers and other IT assets are the lifeline of your facility. You
need to protect that lifeline from planned or unplanned power
events by ensuring the proper distribution of that power at all times.
Cap and protect.
When there is a reduction of power or an unplanned event that
Keep mission-critical assets online. Reduce the power
sends compute loads skyrocketing, you need power policies that
consumed by non-critical servers and redirect this extra
can safely reduce energy consumption by non-critical IT assets.
power to your revenue-generating and customer-serving
Such policies can avert disastrous circumstances – such as power
assets to keep them running without interruption or
overloads – and ensure that mission-critical servers driving revenue
slowdown.
and serving customers stay online.
Put the power where it matters most –
when it matters most
iTRACS CPIM’s power capping capabilities utilize Intel Data
Center Manager (DCM) software to align the power consumed by
the asset to the work it actually produces.
Avoid downtime. Balance power consumption with
availability at all times – not just in times of crisis.
Handle activity spikes with ease. Manage power in real
time to respond to spikes in activity like a holiday rush or
new product launch.
Intel DCM “talks” to the power control chips inside the server to
control and restrict the overall amount of power consumed by the
server based on its level of activity.
When a power event occurs, power capping can immediately
reduce the amount of power consumed by non-critical assets and
improve the overall survivability of your infrastructure.
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$686,000 per hour Average cost of
downtime per hour for larger companies.
Aberdeen Group, May 2013
iTRACS CPIM Power Management in Action…
Your Challenge:
You’ve just deployed 40 new servers when
Your Solution:
your power utility informs you that there could
be brownouts across the grid for the next two
weeks. You need to anticipate problems and
be ready to keep these revenue-generating
assets online – no matter what.
It pays to be prepared with CPIM
Power Management:
• Potentially crippling power outage
is averted
• Revenue continues to flow
regardless of threats to power
supply
• Service levels are maintained even
during spikes or peak-load periods
• Run report to identify all servers running non-essential applications
and identify the LOBs with which they are associated
• Run a what-if “failover” scenario (3D visualization) to see how a brownout
would affect the infrastructure – iTRACS software informs you that a major
brownout could cause a power outage
• Create a power policy to strategically protect your mission-critical
applications by limiting the power your non-critical applications can
consume
• Run a second what-if “failover” scenario (3D visualization) WITH
power capping – confirm that the servers will be safe
• Notify the LOBs that the policy is taking effect at the end of the day
• In a matter of minutes you have developed and implemented a strategy
that could protect the business from an outage costing hundreds of
thousands of dollars
One of the world’s leading Data Center
Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions,
iTRACS® is part of CommScope’s world-class
Data Center solutions portfolio. iTRACS drives
efficiency, cost savings, and strategic value
in data centers and other enterprise
infrastructure. The award-winning iTRACS
Converged Physical Infrastructure Management®
(CPIM®) software suite is transforming how
organizations see, understand, manage,
and optimize their physical infrastructure.
More than one-third of iTRACS CPIM customers
are in the Global/Fortune 500.
For more information, visit commscope.com
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