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Allen Yang
July 28, 2010
At Raritan’s data centers, we integrate network monitoring and management with console management and power management into a single global IT dashboard. From the IT dashboard, IT members can see the current hot issues and track their progresses, or click into the network monitoring system to see the details of topology map and network and servers health. What’s cool is that, with Dominion PX, the network monitor also displays environmental sensor information such as the temperature on the same screen, making it really convenient for IT members. The only glitch was that we initially forgot to make it clear that the temperature was reported in 1/10 Celcius units, I almost had a heart attack when I saw the temperature numbers for the first time.
The dashboard summarizes power consumption information for each data center; for details, IT administrators can then click through to access Power IQ. This is convenient enough for now; but we are thinking to correlate the server utilization with data center power consumption in the future. And we are waiting for the next release of Power IQ to calculate data center PUE numbers as we are now calculating that manually.
After we integrated network management with power management, we are currently integrating Raritan CC-SG and KVM into the same IT dashboard to provide the same one-click convenience of securely accessing servers and VMs through Raritan CC-SG/KVM devices. We can do this all because of Raritan’s support for open standards and popular AA services including SNMP, IPMI and Active Directory in its products. It feels really good to see that Raritan products integrate easily with popular network management tools.
Richard Dominach
July 28, 2010
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Dorothy Ochs
July 26, 2010
Full Power: Join us as we share our ideas on how to efficiently power your data center and impact your bottom line.
Energy is the single largest expense of data center operations. Improving efficiency is the surest way to impact your bottom line.
Join us for a first-of-its-kind energy summit featuring power players from Raritan, Teledata Communications, Federspiel Controls, and Power Assure. Learn from the experts how to capitalize on data center energy efficiency as they debunk common misconceptions and illustrate:
July 19, 2010
How do you use PUE to minimize wasted power? How do you identify stranded power and thereby possibly delay the construction of a very expensive new data center? How do justify the investment to gather detailed power information? Attend our Data Center Power Savings presentation at BICSI and learn how.
BICSI Region Meeting - Indianapolis, IN *
IUPUI Campus Center
420 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
*source: www.bicsi.org/event_details.aspx?sessionaltcd=MT-NCRGN-IN-0710
Richard Dominach
July 19, 2010
Dominion KX II Release 2.3 is now available on raritan.com for customer download. With this new firmware, the KX II will support “tiering,” two levels of connection supporting the access of up to 1024 servers. In addition, the Dominion KX II becomes the first digital KVM switch to support remote HD video resolution of 1920x1080. Other advancements include:
In addition, there are new security features and support for the Paragon Dual CIMs, which can connect one server to two KX II switches for increased reliability and access.
With this release we are reaffirming our leadership in the digital KVM market with support for HD video resolutions, supporting new customer configurations (tiering and the Paragon Dual CIMs), providing new levels of IT productivity, and remaining the most secure digital switch in the industry.
For more information on this free firmware upgrade, see:
https://www.raritan.com/dominion-kx-ii
https://www.raritan.com/support/dominion-kx-ii/