ZPE Systems today unveiled NodeGrid [CI]—the world’s first out-of-band converged infrastructure management appliance—for expanding data center management capabilities and protecting enterprise CI investments. NodeGrid [CI] provides end-to-end access, control and monitoring across multiple layers of converged infrastructure including servers, storage, networking, virtual machines and power devices driving private, public or hybrid clouds.

NodeGrid [CI] is future ready for hyperscale, hyperconverged data center management and designed from the ground up to meet surging information processing demands. With a quad-core Intel CPU, large flash storage, software-defined flexibility from 64-bit Linux and Docker apps, NodeGrid [CI] scales to control one rack or thousands of racks easily with NodeGrid Cloud Clustering and NodeIQ natural language search across the enterprise and globe.

“ZPE gave the data center world its first Docker capable and fastest ever serial console switch, and we’re leading data center management evolution with in-band and out-of-band converged infrastructure management capabilities,” said Arnaldo Zimmermann, CEO of ZPE Systems. “Without hyperscale OOB management, converged infrastructure may be dead in the water for hours, costing business units millions of dollars in downtime.”

ZPE’s NodeGrid [CI] appliance introduces converged infrastructure grade management for device pools which are the foundation for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Docker, OpenStack, VMware ESXi and other cloud and on-premise technologies, as well as management for IPMI service processor, virtual machines, serial, power and environmental sensors, all in a space and energy saving unit.

NodeGrid [CI] is the only offering in the market today for secure in-band and out-of-band converged infrastructure management. As rack densities increase and enterprise moves to the cloud, NodeGrid [CI] is the clear choice to help reduce downtime of very expensive converged infrastructure environments.

Brief NodeGrid [CI] Features

• Secure in-band and out-of-band access to Converged Infrastructure IT devices including: VM, Server, IPMI Service Processor, Networking, Storage, Serial Console and Power
• Docker optimized for apps integration and 64-bit Linux shell for powerful scripting
• HTML5 remote console access for mobile, tablet, desktop
• 1TB SSD storage for data monitoring and actionable data
• 1U 96/48 serial port models with AC/DC power, Quad core 1.9 GHz Intel CPU, 8GB RAM
• Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, 3 USB ports
• Vendor-neutral data center IT device and CI management including: HP/Dell/IBM/Nutanix/EMC Converged Infrastructures, Cisco UCS, Redfish, Intel IPMI, Dell iDRAC, HP iLO, IBM IMM, Oracle ILOM, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, NetApp, EMC, Avocent/Emerson, Raritan/Legrand, ServerTech, APC/Schneider

Availability

NodeGrid [CI] is currently in trials with select customers.