Raritan Power IQ Software Now Talks To More Enterprise Systems

To improve operational and energy efficiency in data centres, Raritan has announced added systems integration capabilities to its Power IQ data centre energy management software and support for more data centre equipment. Power IQ helps companies track and analyse energy usage down to the individual IT device level and implement energy-saving actions from a central power console.

Power IQ’s new Web Services APIs – Power Control API and Configuration Item API – enable customers to integrate Power IQ with their existing enterprise systems, such as HP Asset Management, as well as build custom tools. A customer, for example, can write Web service scripts to automate power control to support their unique operational needs. “Power IQ enables customers to manage their data centres smarter,” said James Cerwinski, Senior Product Manager in Raritan’s Power Business Unit. “Now with the new Web Services APIs, we provide customers a way to implement their creative ideas to manage their enterprise’s power.”

Power IQ – which collects and analyses energy data of IT equipment connected to Raritan and third-party Ethernet-enabled intelligent rack power distribution units (PDUs) – now supports APC and Liebert UPSs. “Not all IT equipment is connected to rack PDUs,” explains Cerwinski. “Some equipment, such as routers and disk arrays, is connected to rack UPSs or directly to floor UPSs. Power IQ now enables a UPS to be a source for power data collection, which helps provide a more complete picture of IT power consumption in a lab or data centre.”

The new release of Power IQ also supports deployments up to 5,000 rack PDUs, making it a scalable Energy Management Virtual Appliance. In addition to collecting data from Dominion PX’s environmental sensors for analysing rack temperature and humidity information, PowerIQ now collects data from ServerTech rack PDU probes and NetBotz. Power IQ also gathers power information on IT equipment connected to ’not-so-smart’ PDUs using Raritan’s Dominion PX-3000 inline power meters, which are designed to be used in conjunction with dumb rack PDUs to provide comprehensive strip-level metering on all types of IT equipment.

Enterprise-wide data collection at the device level enables Power IQ’s analytics to calculate and chart active power, energy consumption, cost and carbon footprint for servers and other IT devices.

Availability

Power IQ 1.5 is available now through Raritan’s channel partners.