Data Center Operation

StruxureWare Data Center Operation enables vendor-agnostic inventory management with real-time device failures and data shown within your data center physical layout, as well as recommendations on how to resolve issues. A location-based drill-down view provides a structured overview of data center locations, from a global to local view down to single assets. The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) calculator supplies information on daily utilization of energy. For instant updates on the go Data Center Operation: Mobile provides access to StruxureWare Data Center Operation information via handheld. StruxureWare Data Center Operation is available as an Enterprise or a Co-location base application. The Co-location application provides additional space and cage management, integrated tenant billing and reporting capabilities

Agility

• Electrical room support - Monitor capacity and plan changes for centralized power equipment in areas outside of the main data center floor plan.
• Vendor neutral - Allows for modeling equipment and data from any vendor, providing support for existing data center environments.
• Shared data model - Ensure mature and synchronized data throughout the entire data center life cycle.
• Localization - User interface available in major local languages; English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese & Italian.
• Optional deployment services - Ensure speedy deployment through the use of Schneider Electric Professional Services.

Availability

• Inventory report - Includes structured information on all rack-mount devices, organized by device type, age, manufacturer and properties for quick overview of all current devices within a data center.
• Live dashboard - Gain transparency to data center key performance indicators through easily configured web dashboards, displaying customizable management-level information.
• Enterprise platform - High availability with failover redundancy through a clustered setup and load balancing, ensuring a mission critical system with no single point of failure.
• Alarms within physical layout - Provides real-time device failures within floor layout and rack front view for live status of data center operations.
• Inventory management - Shows device data within the physical layout for instant access to device details and asset attributes, and overview of data center operations.
• Blade server support - Mirror the exact data center setup, by modeling blades within their blade enclosures.
• Guided network management - An overview of the data center network paths and their interconnections, provided through guided input for reduction of human error.
• Mobile data center operations - Integrates with StruxureWare Data Center Operation: Mobile for access to the StruxureWare Data Center Operation application on the go via the Motorola MC75 handheld PDA.
• PUE/DCiE calculator - Provides Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) or Data Center infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) value for information on daily utilization of energy.

Co-location

• Tenant impact analysis - Map tenant assets on a room, cage, rack or server level for an in-depth understanding of tenant impact in the event of an outage.
• Web Client - Allows user visibility into data center assets, power usage and power capacity via any modern web browser. This lowers maintenance costs and empowers managers to make better and more informed real-time decisions.
• 3D cage view - Outline cage perimeters for an instant 3D visualization of the layout, as well as an automatic calculation of the cage area.
• Audit trail - Track all cage and facility equipment changes over the data center lifecycle, ensuring transparency and easy identification of maintenance requirements.
• Measured cage power - Enabling detailed charge back to individual tenants through an easy overview of sold and measured power.
• Cage visualization - Visualize current available space with anonymous tenant data during the pre-sales phase for planning potential new customer cages, reserving space and supporting the sales process.
• Tenant inventory report - Shows all equipment associated with one tenant, for an instant tenant inventory.
• Power receptacle report - Highlights the current status of plugs and sockets for one or more PDUs or tenants, including an indication of oversubscription.
• Power report - Outlines the total capacity vs. the sold capacity and measured load per site for a complete overview of current power capacities.
• Space report - Instant overview of current space capacities, identifying the sellable, occupied and reserved space, as well as space identified as used internally.

Convenience

• Recommended Actions - Intelligent alarm descriptions coupled with recommended resolutions reduces the need for training and mean time to repair.
• Grid-based references - Flexible approach to floor coordinates enabling data center operators to adopt a customized location identification scheme.
• CAD integration - Enables import of Computer Aided Design (CAD) drawings in order to quickly reshape the room and convert CAD cage drawings into the DCIM model, including toggle CAD layers to show all available facility information.

Manageability

• Floor layout view - View an accurate representation of your data center through the easy-to-use graphical floor layout and 3D view.
• Virtual store room - Keep track of new devices from arrival on site in the virtual store room, as best practices recommend.
• Customizable view - Flexible application layout through drag and drop to suit the individual needs of the users.
• Multiple rooms - Provides the option to display multiple rooms on the same floor plan to accurately depict and navigate large facilities.
• Custom devices - Quickly customize library assets to your specifications in just 2 clicks, amending custom properties such as power requirements and MAC address etc.
• Asset library - Utilize the extensive catalog of physical infrastructure and IT devices from leading vendors.
• Global asset search - Quickly locate assets through free text search, and export equipment data to excel format.
• Rack front view - Detailed rack front view provides an accurate graphical representation of equipment and its location in the rack.
• Organizational view - Provides location-based drill-down for a logical model of the data center, where data center rooms can be organized under regions, countries, campus, sites, buildings and rooms.

Protection

• Read-only Access - Share access without risking unauthorized configuration changes.
• Password security - User-selectable password with strong password rules and reset password mechanism.
• Multi-user access - Enables several users to carry out work on the application simultaneously and merging changes from different users seamlessly.
• User roles - Enable location and feature-based access through multi-user login and individual levels of user roles.