Power Delivery, Monitoring and Control
Corporate data centres are well known as significant power users, with a large sized data centre consuming similar amounts of power to an average sized town. As data centres today generate more heat output and often suffer from inadequate cooling, the need to operate efficiently and cost effectively against infrastructure and power constraints is increasing.
Obviously the greater capacity required, the greater impact on ensuring continuity of supply. Add to this, the escalating cost of energy, and the requirement for management information and control becomes evermore critical.
Unite Technologies provides a range of standard and custom intelligent, retrofit and 'non-invasive' power capabilities, for both new and existing builds specified for both power monitoring only, or a combination of power monitoring with individual outlet control. Defined upper and lower thresholds allow the client to differentiate between warning and critical status, generating various alarms and alerts, with appropriate escalation paths.
Aggregation of configuration information across
data centre equipment, for intelligent monitoring and alarm processing, provides ‘real time’ identification of changes, scheduled polling and the ability to capture detailed data to produce highly sophisticated and graphical management information reports, enabling clients to perform trend analysis and risk management for mission critical services.
Status information can be gathered either locally or remotely via secure authenticated IP access (LDAP) monitoring RMS volts, amps, kVA, kWh, power factor and frequency.
Detailed values and management information across device location, power and cooling, network connectivity, asset application and customer information enable us to present analysis on current and historical trending. This trend analysis can be further utilised to help CIOs make informed decisions on capacity planning, risk analysis, performance benchmarking and policing service level agreements.
To optimise both power consumption and energy use, our intelligent offerings make it possible to meter actual power usage and produce trend data for any single or group of physical systems, enabling:
- Adequate capacity for existing & future needs
- Monitoring, measuring & reporting of power usage via multiple clients
- Billing stream capability for hosted clients
- Unauthorised use of power outlets / equipment deployment
- System load management (phase balancing, capacity planning etc)
- Recovery of locked servers via remote IP power cycling
- Alarming & trending of system, rack, powerstrip and outlet level overload conditions.
Our power capabilities, including monitored and controlled power strips, are a prime solution for 'new builds' in addition to our retrofit capabilities of dual In-Line units and 'non-invasive' capabilities in the measurement of current, ideal for legacy computer rooms and data and telecoms centres. Retrofit solutions are critical in delivering 'big picture' management information, especially as legacy facilities are often based on older inefficient designs.
