Marketing description

Data Center Operation: Capacity predicts the optimal location for physical infrastructure and rack-based IT equipment based on the availability and requirements of physical infrastructure capacity; and user defined requirements such as redundancy, network and business use grouping. It reduces stranded capacity through optimized use of the physical infrastructure and avoids unplanned downtime. With its sophisticated simulation based on live data, Data Center Operation: Capacity proactively analyzes the impact of changes before they occur, enabling informed decision making and planning, ensuring that your physical infrastructure provides the required capacity for current and future needs.

Key selling points

• IT equipment guidance
• Infrastructure failure to IT impact
• Business impact
• Simulation of device failures
• Scenario analysis
• 3D airflow analysis
• Capture index
• Raised floor environments
• Measured power data
• Power dependency path
• Keyword tagging
• U-space report
• Electrical room support
• Live dashboard
• Asset library
• Vendor neutral

Product features

• IT equipment guidance
  Instant server placement recommendation through real-time analysis of available data center capacity, including power, cooling, u-space, network and power ports, capacity strategies, weight limits and more.
• Infrastructure failure to IT impact
  Critical events are translated into server impact analysis, and virtual machines at risk are automatically migrated to healthy hosts.
• Business impact
  It shows the consequence of device failure on data center infrastructure equipment for instant identification of critical business application impacts.
• Simulation of device failures
  It enables data center operators to proactively identify how a device failure will impact business critical applications and maintain redundancy during maintenance.
• Scenario analysis
  Try out future data center changes and view the impact, without making any changes to their live StruxureWare Data Center Operation application.
• 3D airflow analysis
  Simulate any cooling scenario in your data center, instantly visualizing the cooling effect on your infrastructure for easy identification of overcooling and hotspots.
• Capture index
  Instantly visualize the dynamics of the data center airflow through the hot and cold aisle Capture Index (CI), providing real-time analysis of how effectively the supplied air is used.
• Raised floor environments
  Gain an instant overview of the plenum air velocities and airflow rates for optimal positioning of perforated tiles in rooms with raised floor cooling systems pressure.
• Measured power data
  Prevent overloads through graphical display of average and peak power usage by measuring actual consumption through metered rack PDUs and branch circuit monitoring.
• Power dependency path
  Map the power path and physical system relationships and dependencies, providing detailed overview of electrical distribution and phase balancing for a detailed impact analysis.
• Keyword tagging
  Highlight location constraints through keyword tagging of data center racks or equipment, for both technical and business-level categorization of assets.
• Electrical room support
  Monitor capacity and plan changes for centralized power equipment in areas outside of the main data center floor plan.
• Live dashboard
  Gain transparency to data center key performance indicators through easily configured web dashboards, displaying customizable management-level information.
• Asset library
  Utilize the extensive catalog of physical infrastructure and IT devices from leading vendors.
• Vendor neutral
  It allows for modeling equipment and data from any vendor, providing support for existing data center environments.