 "ManageEngine's RackBuilder Plus now comes with Intel Data Center Manager plug-in")
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, has launched the Intel DCM Energy Management plug-in for RackBuilder Plus, its 3D visual modeling software for data centres. 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 centre floors, racks and devices. ManageEngine is demonstrating its new plug-in along with RackBuilder Plus and OpManager, its data centre management software for large enterprises.
Up to 60 percent of a typical data centre utility bill goes to cooling systems. Considering the huge size of today’s data centres, 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.
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The new Intel DCM Energy Management plug-in monitors the power and temperature of the data centre 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 centre floor, the individual racks and the individual devices.
Those metrics help admins understand the efficiency of their power for computing and understand how much power is wasted on cooling.
“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 centre 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 centre software and hardware vendors to integrate the DCM capabilities into their offerings,” said Jeff Klaus, General Manager for Intel DCM Solutions.