ManageEngine,
the real-time IT management company, today launched the Intel DCM Energy
Management plug-in for RackBuilder
Plus, its 3D visual modeling software for data centers. As a result
of leveraging Intel Data Center Manager (Intel DCM), the new plug-in
lets admins know the power usage and temperature of their data center
floors, racks and devices. An online demonstration of the Intel DCM
Energy Management plug-in is available at http://demo.rackbuilderplus.com.
ManageEngine is demonstrating its new plug-in along with RackBuilder
Plus and OpManager,
its data center management software for large enterprises, in booth 124
at Data
Center World being held Oct. 19-22, 2014, in Orlando, Fla.
Up to 60 percent of a typical data center utility bill goes to cooling
systems. Considering the huge size of today’s data centers, those bills
can run up to thousands of dollars over years. Designing a real-time,
continuous energy monitoring system that works in tandem with DCIM
visualization tools can help reduce these bills.
“Our partnership with Intel brings together leading-edge capabilities in
energy monitoring and DCIM visualization,” said Dev Anand, director of
product management at ManageEngine. “Intel’s energy manager is now
available as a plug-in for our RackBuilder Plus to help admins get the
heat map view of their racks, apply power capping over energy-intensive
equipment, measure and report on energy metrics such as PUE and conduct
energy audits periodically.”
“While Intel DCM simplifies data center energy operations by providing a
single solution that covers all the different server OEM protocols and
proprietary techniques for power management, Intel’s DCM software stack
just makes it easier for data center software and hardware vendors to
integrate the DCM capabilities into their offerings,” said Jeff Klaus,
general manager for Intel DCM Solutions. “We are pleased that
ManageEngine customers would now be able to simplify their power
management operations with Intel DCM and the RackBuilder offering.”
RackBuilder Plus Puts Intel Inside
The new Intel DCM Energy Management plug-in monitors the power and
temperature of the data center devices via various protocols such as
iDRAC, IPMI, DCMI and SNMP. The plug-in helps admins monitor the power
consumption and temperature of each device. RackBuilder Plus collects
this data and provides actionable information on the power consumption
and temperature for the data center floor, the individual racks and the
individual devices.
The Intel DCM Energy Management plug-in empowers RackBuilder Plus to
aggregate all the power usage data and calculate the power usage
effectiveness (PUE) and data center infrastructure efficiency (DCiE) of
a data center floor. Those metrics help admins understand the efficiency
of their power for computing and understand how much power is wasted on
cooling.
RackBuilder Plus is built on OpManager, ManageEngine’s highly scalable,
data center infrastructure management software that can monitor 50,000
devices or 1 million interfaces from a single server. For deeper data
center visibility and management, data center admins can convert
RackBuilder Plus into OpManager with a simple license key change and
gain network management, physical and virtual server monitoring, fault
management, workflow automation, asset management and more.
Pricing and Availability
The Intel DCM Energy Management plug-in for RackBuilder Plus is
available for download at http://www.manageengine.com/data-center-visualization/energy-management.html.
Its pricing starts at $199 per rack.