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CA Data Center Infrastructure Management

Business challengesData centers are frequently challenged by capacity limitations. Power and cooling constraints limit the ability to deliver on new business requirements. Uptime and availability are lowered when power is not dependable. Service quality and SLAs are at risk. The lack of detailed insight into consumption leads to unnecessary costs.

Uptime and availability is at risk when power is not dependable. Systems fail due to power outages or other power-related faults. Agility is reduced when staff has limited insight into power and cooling in their data center. Systems experience downtime and SLAs are not met.

Capacity limitations for data center power, space and cooling. Staff doesn’t know which devices and systems are generating the load and it is not clear where spare capacity exists in the datacenter or where greater efficiency is possible. Expensive new data centers are built despite existing spare capacity, or IT is outsourced.

Increasing operational costs due to energy consumption. Increases in electricity bills with limited insight into the cause. If IT pays the bill, this substantially increases operational costs.

Differentiation among service providers and the provision of new and innovative services. Managed service providers often seek to create differentiation between their cloud and co-location services and those of their competitors. Energy is an area of innovation and differentiation, but traditional approaches to energy insight and energy chargeback are limited and labor-intensive.

Solution overviewCA DCIM is a web-based centralized solution for monitoring power, cooling and environmental factors across facilities and IT systems in the data center as well as managing the use of space and lifecycle of assets which make up the data center infrastructure. CA DCIM encompasses three critical areas:

•Power and cooling

•Capacity and inventory

•IT management and business services

CA DCIM captures power and cooling information in real-time, helps manage and inventory physical assets for operational management, and helps manage the logical layer of applications and services to help you better deliver IT management and business services that are business-relevant.

At a GlanceCA Data Center Infrastructure Management (CA DCIM) captures detailed real-time information about energy use across your data centers and operational facilities, helping enable you to measure, trend, alert, and take action. CA DCIM also helps you visualize your data center environment in 3D and manage the space, power and cooling capacity of your environment to better meet your business objectives. The solution also provides a baseline from which you can measure cost savings, improvements in capacity, and operational reliability and performance, as well as deliver continuous information for ongoing improvement.

Key benefits/results

• Enables data collection from multiple systems and protocols, reducing manual efforts.

• Provides monitoring and alarming for facilities, with visualization of power, space and cooling data for insight, analysis, and control.

• Enables capacity management for more effective use of data center infrastructure and planning.

• Provides visibility into space and power utilization, allowing for smart, real-time decision making.

Key features

Data collection: Combines data from various devices that communicate across a wide range of protocols including SNMP, Modbus, and BACnet devices.

Calculation engine: Built-in formulas and calculations. Create elements that can calculate and store any user-defined variable data with every poll. Live reporting, trends and chargeback reports.

Advanced alerting: Provides alerting and control functionalities for IT infrastructure and facilities devices via energy monitoring system (EMS) or building management system (BMS).

Extensive integrations: With BMS and IT management applications.

3D visualization: View the data center in 3 dimensions for understanding of data center layout and inventory locations.

Control: Actuation of control for both physical and virtual environments.

Capacity planning: Future capacity planning with what-if capabilities.

Asset discovery: Auto-discover a range of asset types.

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CA DCIM offers a comprehensive DCIM solution aligned to business-relevant services

   

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Built on a proven and scalable platform, CA DCIM aggregates data from thousands of devices and hundreds of locations and display dashboards and trend charts to support smart decisions on improving data center efficiency.

With CA DCIM you can collect data from highly diverse devices and systems using SNMP or other protocols such as BACnet or Modbus and easily track assets within the data center and provide powerful 3D visualization.

Critical differentiatorsThe CA DCIM solution is comprised of CA ecoMeter and CA Visual Infrastructure. The combination of the two products allows for monitoring and management of power, space, and cooling data through all your data centers.

Critical differentiators include:

•Streamline data collection from multiple sources and devices supplied by a very wide range of vendors.

•Create standard and custom metrics such as Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) to benchmark the data center, facilities equipment and IT assets.

•Measure and analyze power load and consumption across multiple devices, systems, buildings and data centers. Help to determine areas of high and low

efficiency, spare and limited capacity, efficient and under-performing assets, consumption patterns, and waste.

•Decide where to place new racks by identifying where excess cooling and power are available, thereby continuing to efficiently manage energy and service costs.

•Identify problems and help reduce false alarms through intelligent alerting.

•Control both physical equipment and virtual environments, to help achieve greater savings.

•MSPs: Achieve service offering differentiation and enhance

competitiveness by reporting and charging back more easily on end-user energy consumption and power demand.

Related products/solutions CA ecoMeter captures detailed real-time information about energy use across your data centers and operational facilities, enabling you to measure, trend, alert, and take action.

CA Visual Infrastructure is a 3D application designed for real-time monitoring and resource management in areas such as space, power and cooling within data center and IT facilities.

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Agility Made Possible: the CA Technologies advantageCA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments—from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 rely on CA Technologies to manage their evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at ca.com.

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CA Visual Infrastructure

Business challengesData centers typically contain equipment from different vendors, including: IT systems such as servers, storage and mainframes; power equipment such as PDUs, UPSs and backup generators; cooling equipment, including CRAC units and air handlers, and building management systems. The challenges for data center, IT, and facility managers include:•Data centers often have insufficient space, power or cooling capacity to meet

operational limiting agility in the face of business needs.

•Poor visibility into source of power demand, where there is overloading and risk of failure or where there is spare capacity. This leads to downtime and loss of business service delivery.

•Space, power and cooling constraints limit the ability to deliver on new business requirements.

•Uptime and availability are lowered when power is not dependable.

•Service quality and service level agreements (SLAs) are at risk if data center efficiency declines.

•Lack of detailed insight into consumption leads to unnecessary costs.

Solution overviewCA Visual Infrastructure provides an integrated 3D interface to help users design and build racks located in the data centers. Using the library of developed stencils, users can recreate a representation of the actual racks and view both device and rack level data related to weight, power consumption, heat dissipation or available space. The powerful modeling tool will suggest rack locations and port assignments for power, network and fiber connections based on rules defined in the system.

Users can also generate what-if scenarios for outage analysis if a device fails. The power and network tree views allow users to understand the direct and indirect connections for a given device and show current alarm states. Users can also configure all power, network and storage interfaces and map those interfaces to the connected devices. With CA Visual Infrastructure users can also utilize a series of data center facility views called “floor plan Layer” to give the user a single holistic view of the data center to help enable better capacity management in the areas of space, power and cooling. CA Visual Infrastructure includes a historical data player within the data center floor plan view. The ability to view multiple layers within a facility as well as generate built-in capacity reports allows users to better manage capacity and eliminate waste within the data center. Through custom integration with a third party or with our standalone asset management features, users can document physical asset attributes and information and report on any physical asset in the system.

At a GlanceCA Visual Infrastructure is an integral component of the CA Data Center Infrastructure Management (CA DCIM) solution. It is an easy to use, 3D application designed to help data center and facility managers improve operational efficiencies and reduce cost through the effective use of real-time monitoring and resource management capabilities in areas such as space, power and cooling within all of their IT facilities. Data center information such as trending, alarms, and dashboards can also be easily accessed via mobile devices and is designed to integrate with a wide variety of 3rd party systems. With CA Visual Infrastructure, organizations can also perform inventory and asset discovery within their data centers, along with capacity and scenario planning.

Key benefits/results

• Helps reduce costs with detailed 3D visibility into space and power utilization, allowing for smart, real-time decision making.

• Improves management of, and planning for, resources, maintenance activities and work dispatch.

• Enables capacity management for more effective use of data center infrastructure and data center planning.

Key features

3D visual modeling of devices: Powerful 3D modeling tool will suggest rack locations and port assignments for power, network and fiber connections based on rules defined in the system.

Capacity management: Utilizes a series of data center facility views called “floor plan layer” to give the user a single holistic view of the data center to help enable better capacity management in the areas of space, power and cooling.

Inventory and asset management: Report on any physical asset in the system including location, owner, purchase date, configuration settings and more.

Web, client, and mobile interfaces: Brings 3D visualization technology to the mobile platform. Access dashboards, trend charts and alarm data for data center assets on iPad, iPhone, and Android devices.

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Agility Made Possible: the CA Technologies advantageCA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments—from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 rely on CA Technologies to manage their evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at ca.com.

Critical differentiatorsIntuitive navigation: User-friendly graphical navigation simplifies locating specific facility or devices and can track an alarm from its geographical region down to the specific device.

Design studio: Upload floor plan images and utilize drag-and-drop functionality to place equipment within the floor plan including detailed rack elevations with rack load, space utilization, relationship rules and inventory monitoring built in.

Reporting: Internal reporting engine for quick access to information such as current capacity, asset lists and exact device location.

Space, power and cooling capacity management: Switch between facility views to analyze data such as rack capacity, maximum rack space available, weight, and available space or ports to improve capacity.

Enhance planning capabilities: Utilize the data center Floor Plan Layer Views, Detailed Rack Elevations, and Device Relationship Manager to improve facility planning for space, power, cooling and connectivity.

Asset location tracking: Locate assets, track location history and report detail device locations, owners, deployment and purchase dates, configuration settings and more.

Service and maintenance management: Schedule, track and document service and maintenance activities to help provide for

systems availability and prevent downtime due to equipment failure.

Document management: Store technical and procedural documents, user guides, as-built drawings, commissioning reports or cabling diagrams and attach them to a specific device or facility for archiving and sharing.

Warranty management: Document, track and report on device warranty status to help maintain warranty compliance and prevent unnecessary costs associated with re-certifying equipment for warranty coverage.

Related products/solutions CA ecoMeter captures detailed real-time information about energy use across your data centers and operational facilities, enabling you to measure, trend, alert, and take action.

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Facility, data center, and rack design using simple drag and drop.

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CA Nimsoft ecoMeter

At a Glance

Today’s data centers are virtualized, dynamic and more integral to business success than ever. In these

environments, power demands are growing increasingly volatile and vital to infrastructure and business

performance. CA Nimsoft ecoMeter gives IT and facilities staff a unified view of IT, power and cooling

systems. This solution gives customers the comprehensive, practical capabilities they need to achieve

greater availability, agility and efficiency in their data center and IT operations.

Key benefits/results

• Improve service availability and quality

through enhanced service uptime and faster

response to changing capacity demands

• Respond faster by more rapidly diagnosing

power-related issues and changing capacity

demands

• Reduce risk by minimizing service

interruption and SLA compliance

• Control cost by reducing energy consumption

and optimizing resource utilization

• Generate additional revenue streams,

improve departmental accountability for

usage, and better demonstrate usage and

value through integrated billing reports

Key features

Get in-depth coverage of power, energy,

temperature, humidity, airfl ow and more

Leverage one platform to monitor devices from

virtually any hardware vendor and virtualized

resources

Harness alerts, real-time dashboards and

historical information that fuels actionable

insights

Enjoy effi cient, template-driven deployment

and administration

Deliver client- or group-based reports on power

usage and cost

Business challenges

Traditional data center infrastructure management (DCIM) approaches have relied on

multiple systems from a variety of suppliers to maintain the integrity of the data center.

While this approach may have met basic requirements, it hasn’t been effi cient, whether

from the standpoint of resource usage or administration. Further, given IT’s need to support

increased demand for business services, this approach is increasingly unsustainable.

Organizations need better integration of IT and infrastructure management, so they can

more effectively govern these assets. IT and facility teams need to be able to seamlessly

integrate critical data from multiple measurement systems into one system of record.

How do IT teams gain a single view into the demand and capacity requirements across all

their data centers?

How do they more effectively understand usage, predict trends and ensure they effectively

prepare for future energy and cooling requirements?

Solution overview

CA Nimsoft ecoMeter captures real-time data from IT and building infrastructure elements

to provide you and your customers with a clear and comprehensive picture of power, cooling

and energy usage. With CA Nimsoft ecoMeter, you can access this comprehensive data

through reports, dashboards and portals—enabling more effi cient and intelligent energy

management.

In-depth coverage of power usage: CA Nimsoft ecoMeter provides insight into data center

power usage by gathering metrics from meters, sensors and devices in real time. The

solution monitors power, energy, temperature, humidity, airfl ow and more. CA Nimsoft

ecoMeter gathers device metrics through a range of protocols, offering support for Modbus,

SNMP and BACnet communications. Because of this broad protocol support, CA Nimsoft

ecoMeter can get power and environmental data from virtually any kind of system.

Unifi ed views of IT: CA Nimsoft ecoMeter gives organizations unifi ed visibility into not only

energy consumption and cooling information, but the end user experience, virtualized

resources, cloud services and more. With this comprehensive, unifi ed solution, IT

administrators can improve infrastructure performance and boost operational effi ciency.

CA Nimsoft ecoMeter

Agility Made Possible: the CA Technologies advantage

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to

support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform

infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

CA Nimsoft ecoMeter provides at-a-glance insights into such metrics as power

usage and cooling status.

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Effi cient deployment and administration:

CA Nimsoft ecoMeter features template-

driven configuration of facility and IT

assets to accelerate initial implementation

and ongoing inventory capture. Further,

through its integration with CA Nimsoft

Service Desk, events generated by CA

Nimsoft ecoMeter can automatically

generate service desk incidents, along with

associated routing processes.

Supported environments

CA Nimsoft ecoMeter offers support for a

comprehensive range of calculations,

including:

• Total PDU power, total generator power,

CRAC power, total consumption power,

total power quality meter power, total

diesel generator power, electric board

power, power usage effectiveness, total

IT load, total non IT load, total DC

load.

CA Nimsoft ecoMeter offers templates for

the following devices, with additional

device types being added over time:

• Modbus devices. Cyberex breaker,

E-Mon Power Quality Meter, Eaton PDU,

FM200 Fire Panel, ION PDU, Schneider

Electric Power Quality Meter, Siemens

PDU.

• SNMP devices. APC Rack PDU, APC Env

Rack PDU, APC UPS, PDI PDU, Liebert

PDU, Trane Opto CRAC.

Critical differentiators

Timely, actionable insights: CA Nimsoft

ecoMeter enables administrators to collect

real-time energy and environmental

information across data centers, analyze it to

identify issues and hot spots, alert users in

the event of adverse conditions and report on

consumption and usage. The solution offers

these features:

• Intelligent alarm notifi cation

capabilities. With CA Nimsoft ecoMeter,

alerts can be generated and delivered to

the appropriate IT or facilities staff

members, speeding remediation.

• Advanced calculation engine. The

solution makes it easy to calculate

measurements that encompass diverse

and disparate systems, including such

custom metrics as power usage

effectiveness.

• Integrated billing reports. With CA

Nimsoft ecoMeter, you can easily track

and report on specifi c groups of devices

to calculate not only kilowatts used per

hour, but to calculate the cost of this

energy usage. Consequently, enterprise IT

can furnish reports that show business

groups the cost of their power usage.

MSPs can even leverage this capability to

effi ciently charge clients for power

consumption. CA Nimsoft ecoMeter

facilitates billing based on such

attributes as maximum capacity,

usage and peak hour load.

With these capabilities, organizations get

greater value and financial transparency

from their data center infrastructure.