Monitoring and Alerting Systems
DSView3 Power Manager

Avocent’s DSView® 3 software Power Manager plug-in provides data centers with the ability to monitor and measure energy consumption, costs and trends from a single server to an entire data center. It simplifies power and cooling capacity planning and provides a consolidated view, including remote power control for individual server outlets. Through preemptive notification of rack-level power and environmental alarms, it empowers administrators with data to increase power usage efficiencies and maintain availability of IT assets. DSView 3 software Power Manager plug-in offers a combined interface for the management of IT assets and the power infrastructure supporting them with seamless integration into DSView 3 management software.

Manage
DSView 3 software Power Manager plug-in provides a single, secure, browser-based interface to capture power usage at any moment in time and energy usage over a period of time. Visibility into energy consumption data helps IT to operate a more efficient data center, including:

• Insight for capacity planning
• Total reading on power usage for better efficiency
• Allocate costs of power based on actual usage by department
• Determine what activities can be moved to off-peak times
• Avoid budget overruns by setting a maximum threshold of power usage
• Balance of power usage for better efficiency and to maintain a consistently cool data center
• Preemptive notification and alarms for proactive power management
• Single console for access and control to both physical and virtual environments

DSView 3 software Power Manager plug-in also enables IT to calculate what it costs to power a rack (racks or entire data center) per moment, per day or over time and operate or manage power more efficiently.

Access
DSView 3 software Power Manager plug-in helps data center administrators gain real-time access to power consumption and temperature alerts to minimize interruptions and increase uptime. DSView 3 software Power Manager plug-in provides power management and reporting capabilities, offering detailed data to assist with data center power usage efficiencies (PUE).

Control
Server power consumption is highly dynamic. Additional equipment, if plugged in to the wrong location, can cause significant downtime and data loss because of power overloads. DSView 3 software Power Manager plug-in provides detailed, rack-level power and environmental information at your fingertips to monitor overall power and energy consumption usage and costs, which allows for better capacity planning and helps maintain availability of IT assets.

Benefits

• Help IT and Facilities determine departmental power usage
• Assist with capacity planning enabling IT to easily decide where to add new servers/racks in a data center
• Help justify purchase of new equipment by comparing the energy cost differential between new versus old servers
• Determine what activities can be moved to off-peak times when energy costs less to purchase
• Help get a total reading on power usage for the data center and set a maximum threshold of power usage
• Provide insight to help IT keep a balance of power usage for better efficiency
• Help IT know what electrical infrastructure to build in to a backup/DR site
• Ensure availability by setting power and environmental-related thresholds and alerts
• Help IT decide which applications to virtualize

Product Compatibility
DSView 3 management software: Versions 3.7.1 and higher
Rack PDUs supported:

• Avocent Power Management Distribution Unit (PM PDU) - PM 8/8i, 10/10i, 20/20i, PM 1000, PM 2000 and PM 3000 PDUs, SPC 4/8/16 power control devices
• Liebert® MPH and Liebert® MPX rack PDUs
• Select third-party PDUs supported from APC® and Server Technology®.