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1. A White Paper from the Experts
in Business-Critical Continuity™
Achieving a New Level of Data Center Performance
Optimizing Availability, Capacity and Efficiency with Emerson Network Power’s DCIM Solution
2. 2 Achieving a New Level of Data Center Performance
Achieving a New Level of
Data Center Performance
Table of Contents
3 Executive Summary
4 Introduction
4 The Emerging Discipline of DCIM
5 Holistic, Real-Time Data Center Management with the
TrellisTM
Real-time Infrastructure Optimization Platform
7 The Trellis Platform Intelligent Architecture
8 Trellis Software Components
9 Scalable Infrastructure Monitoring with the Avocent®
Universal Management Gateway Appliance
9 Conclusion
3. 3 Achieving a New Level of Data Center Performance
Executive Summary
The Business Issue
Enterprises require high-performance data centers to ensure that critical business applications are available around
the clock. But as data centers have increased in their complexity and density in order to accommodate growing
business requirements, tools for monitoring, measuring and enhancing data center performance have not kept
up. Isolated and fragmented, these tools do not provide real-time data, nor make clear the relationships and
dependencies between devices. IT and facilities staffs are forced to rely on time-consuming manual calculations
or cumbersome integrations between monitoring systems to determine the health of the data center and make
decisions—all of which adds up to more errors, inefficiency, downtime and wasted capacity.
The Solution
In the last five years, data center infrastructure management (DCIM) has emerged as a discipline for managing
critical infrastructure. DCIM promotes centralized data collection in order to gain a single source of truth for
planning and management in the data center. The goal is to aid the decision-making process by providing accurate,
real-time information in a useful and meaningful way. DCIM offers a route to integrating facilities and IT operations,
enabling communication and collaboration between these organizations that lead to optimized performance,
capacity and availability.
In response to the need for a robust DCIM solution, Emerson Network Power has introduced the Trellis™ real-time
infrastructure optimization platform. Uniquely, this platform offers unprecedented, real-time visibility into the
entire infrastructure, providing context for all the information collected so that data centers gain an accurate
understanding of performance. The Trellis platform gathers and aggregates millions of data points for every
infrastructure device, filtering and presenting relevant and meaningful data in ways best suited to the individual
data center user.
The Benefits
Forrester has cited Emerson Network Power as one of the two dominant suppliers in the DCIM market.i
With the
Trellis platform, organizations gain a single, comprehensive solution for unified management of their infrastructure
that enables IT and facilities organizations to:
• Maintain high availability with the ability to recognize dependencies and understand performance in real time,
predict the impact of change and automate complex event management and alarm notifications.
• Maximize efficiency with a comprehensive inventory of every asset’s floor or rack position, role-based user
interfaces that simplify the use of detailed data and a unified view of the data center that facilitates collaborative
planning.
• Optimize capacity with accurate insight into current usage, real-time, trend and historical change tracking and
the ability to preview the impact of change before it is made.
4. 4 Achieving a New Level of Data Center Performance
Achieving a New Level of
Data Center Performance
Introduction
For most enterprises, the performance of the data center is
now mission critical. Business operations—and the success and
competitiveness of the organization—depend on 24/7 availability
of applications and systems. To support the increasing demands
of the enterprise, data centers have become denser and more
complex. Combined with the critical importance of availability,
this complexity and density has had two important effects on data
center operations:
• Time is of the essence. There is less time for data centers to
react when problems occur as essential business operations
can be brought to a halt whenever an application or system
goes down. High density increases the risk, since an outage in
one rack with clusters of virtual machines may impact several
critical applications. Change planning is equally time-pressured
with changes needing to be made as fast as possible in order to
minimize disruption.
• Understanding the complex relationship between physical and
virtual assets has become more difficult, making it harder to
diagnose and fix problems. Adoption of virtualization, cloud
computing and automation at the IT level means that IT and
facilities not only need to effectively monitor and control their
respective data center assets, but also coordinate their actions
so as not to adversely impact each other.
Unfortunately, IT and facilities organizations are struggling to
effectively and efficiently manage complex data centers because
typical monitoring and management tools are isolated and
fragmented. Consequently, data centers do not have access to the
detailed, holistic data they need to understand the relationships
and dependencies between assets. Nor do these tools provide real-
time data that shows how assets are actually functioning.
To compensate for these gaps, IT and facilities staffs are forced
to sift through bits of data manually or engage in cumbersome
integrations; either way, the propensity for errors, inaccuracy,
downtime and wasted capacity increases substantially.
The Emerging Discipline of DCIM
In the last three years, forward-thinking IT organizations have
recognized the need to view data center infrastructure as an
ecosystem of interconnected parts. They have realized that
without complete and accurate information about the physical
infrastructure (such as performance, component dependencies
and capacities), planned initiatives cannot be executed efficiently
and sustained over time.
“At a typical cost in the range of several
hundred thousand dollars, it is likely that
DCIM will pay for itself in about two years
for a 5,000-square-foot data center—
given its potential to reduce energy and
other operational costs.”
“More than Half of Data Center Managers Polled Will
Likely Be Using DCIM Tools in 2013,” Gartner, 3/12
Capacity planning, forecasting, simulation, analytics Optimization, operational BI, load management
Data management, integration and reporting
Cooling control,
BMS, alarms, etc.
Environmental
monitoring and
reporting
Asset
configuration
and change
management
Power, energy
measuring,
modeling
Power
management,
power capping
IT service and
systems
management,
VM management
Data collection, meters, sensors
5. 5 Achieving a New Level of Data Center Performance
In response, DCIM has emerged as a discipline for managing
critical infrastructure. DCIM centralizes the collection of
infrastructure data in order to deliver a single source of truth for
planning and management. According to Forrester Research,
“[DCIM] offers data center operators the ability to take a holistic
look at their entire physical data center environment and to not
only understand what is happening in real time but also make
intelligent decisions about future changes and investments.”
Similarly, Gartner sees DCIM as central to data center operations,
predicting DCIM tools will become “a key part of the data center
manager’s arsenal during the next few years.”ii
While there is not a universally agreed upon definition of what
DCIM tools need to deliver, the 451 Group has developed a well-
regarded reference stack that outlines the capabilities needed for a
robust solution.iii
This framework integrates facilities and IT operations, enabling a
cross-domain management strategy that is built on a foundation
of intelligent infrastructure, is run by performance metrics and
is tightly integrated with IT operations. By operating within this
framework, organizations can maintain high availability and
control costs in distributed, traditional and hybrid data centers.
Holistic, Real-Time Data Center Management with
the Trellis™ Real-Time Infrastructure Optimization
Platform
Emerson Network Power has designed the Trellis real-time
infrastructure optimization platform as a DCIM solution that
mirrors how data centers actually work, rather than merely
forcing change to compensate for the gaps created by managing
with multiple point products. True to the principles of DCIM, the
Trellis platform provides a single solution for unified management
of IT and facilities infrastructure. The Trellis platform combines
both hardware and software in order to gather data from every
infrastructure device including Windows, Linux and UNIX servers,
storage and serial devices, service processors, rack/environmental
sensors, data center power units, cooling units and power
distribution units (PDUs).
However, the Trellis platform is not simply a mechanism for
collecting data. The platform provides three unique capabilities
that enable IT and facilities to take action based on real-time
information in order to maintain high levels of availability and
optimize capacity, while operating at the lowest possible cost.
Real-Time Data
Typically, data center managers are forced to make decisions on
historical data. But, as the well-known adage for the stock market
goes, past performance is no predictor of future results. The same
“Over the past decade, data centers have
been mostly managed using a loose
collection of proprietary monitoring
systems, custom-built software and
simple productivity tools. Emerson’s Trellis
hardware and software platform has a
uniquely integrated approach, providing
visibility across all IT and facilities systems
and enabling managers to optimize their
performance while delivering enterprise-
class scalability and performance.”
– Andy Lawrence, Research Director,The 451 Group
is true for data centers. Instead of integrating with other monitoring
or polling equipment to gather historical data, the Trellis platform
collects, aggregates and analyzes data in seconds by connecting
natively to each device. With real-time performance data, IT and
facilities can know exactly what is taking place at any given moment
and can model the impact of planned change to understand the
consequences immediately.
Detailed Data in Context
The Trellis platform gathers and aggregates millions of data points
from distributed environments and heterogeneous equipment. To
make this level of detail useful and meaningful, it places the data in
context so that the real performance can be understood.
For example, in addition to configuration and inventory data, the
platform maintains performance data for each asset. Using this
information, it applies rules to discern previously undetected
patterns and trends and presents the information in context. This
context allows IT and facilities to immediately grasp the true health
of the infrastructure, what impact proposed changes will have
on performance and how to fine tune components and zones to
maximize efficiency. Once decisions have been made, a user can
then execute an action from the Trellis platform interface and view
the impact of those changes in real time.
6. 6 Achieving a New Level of Data Center Performance
Achieving a New Level of
Data Center Performance
Usability
Emerson Network Power has specifically designed the Trellis™
platform with the user’s experience in mind. Because the
platform’s design is based on uses cases and interviews with real
data center operators, managers and executives, the interface
filters and presents information to support each role as illustrated
in the following table.
Data Center Role Trellis Platform Capability
Facilities managers need power and cooling
data in order to maintain uptime and forestall
outages.
The Trellis platform provides access to real-time monitoring data as well as a graphic visualization of where
alarms are occurring. Remote access to any device, including server consoles and PDUs, enables faster
response to overheating or power failures.
Network and security administrators strive to
prevent network or WAN outages.
With the complete data center inventory within the Trellis platform, administrators can quickly generate
and review network usage reports to know where servers are located and to recommend changes. User-
defined automated alarms provide immediate knowledge of any security issues.
Lab administrators use many different types
of hardware and appliances and must react
quickly to get products delivered on time.
The Trellis platform provides a single application for accessing and controlling all devices, which makes it
easy to locate servers, check the status of lab equipment and provide multiple users with access rights to
consoles.
Data center managers need a greater ability
to understand the impact of change and how
to optimize space usage.
With the capacity planning capabilities of the Trellis platform, managers can quickly map and monitor
devices, streamline the process of predicting placement, visualize how space reservation will impact
capacity on a specific rack and share plans with both IT and facilities staff to avoid collisions.
Data center executives need to align
initiatives with business goals, exert greater
control over operations and maintain uptime.
The Trellis dashboard provides a real-time, global view of all data centers, while capacity roll-up reporting
helps executives quickly identify areas requiring attention or where expansion is likely to be needed.
7. 7 Achieving a New Level of Data Center Performance
The Trellis™ Platform Intelligent Architecture
The common platform services lie at the heart of the Trellis
platform. These services provide the functional intelligence of
the platform, enabling communication between hardware and
software. Combined with the Avocent® Universal Management
Gateway appliance (see Scalable Infrastructure Monitoring with
the Avocent® Universal Management Gateway section below), the
services facilitate real-time and intelligent communications within
the entire infrastructure in order to provide meaningful business
intelligence about the data center’s performance.
The common platform services include three key components:
• Platform Engine – Delivered through the Avocent® Universal
Management Gateway appliance, the engine is responsible for
polling and collecting data from all the managed elements in
a data center. The engine eliminates the need to use multiple,
disconnected monitoring systems as it provides a single point
for monitoring every data center asset.
MONITORING
ALARM
MANAGEMENT
• Power
• Environmental
• Server
INVENTORY/
CATALOG
• Physical
• Virtual
• Mobile
ACCESS
Embedded
Service
Processor
Process Management/Capacity Forecasting/Business Intelligence
PLANNING/REPORTING
REAL-TIME OPTIMIZATION
Automation/Orchestration
CONTROL
BMS
INTEGRATION
ITSM
INTEGRATION
NETWORKINGSTORAGESERVERS COOLING POWER
SERVICE PROCESSOR MULTIPLE PROTOCOLS
• Event-Driven Processing – Collects, aggregates and stores the
real-time data, sending data to the platform’s software applica-
tion as requested. Event processing alleviates the need to manu-
ally monitor or correlate data in order to know when an action
is necessary. Staff can set up conditions for automatic actions,
such as asking for a notification or automatically taking a speci-
fied action whenever a series of events occurs. With event-driven
processing, the Trellis platform can even predict events before
they occur and take corrective action.
• Platform Services – These web services pass the data to the Trellis
platform’s database. However, this is not simply an indiscrimi-
nate “data dump.” These intelligent services filter the data,
determining how a specific piece of information from a device
should be used and by whom. For example, the services can
determine that specific data is critical enough to warrant an
alarm or that it simply needs to be sent to a repository for later
reporting. As a result, the services deliver the right data at the
right time to the right resource, while providing confidence that
all the data is available for use at any time.
8. 8 Achieving a New Level of Data Center Performance
Trellis™ Software Components
The Trellis platform includes a suite of components that helps IT
and facilities meet the critical need to maintain availability, maxi-
mize efficiency and optimize capacity as follows:
Inventory Manager
Provides an accurate and
complete model of data centers,
the knowledge of where devices
and equipment are located, the
relationship between components
and how many resources are
being taken up by data center
equipment.
Benefits:
• Improve personnel efficiency, device planning and management with a single source of truth.
• Quickly determine how much capacity (power, cooling, weight and space) is available and
consumed at any point in the data center.
• Match available resources with device requirements and calculate the impact of placement on
underlying resources to ensure capacity thresholds are not exceeded.
• Reduce risk with mapping and visualization of critical power/data connection paths that
highlight dependencies.
Change Planner
Ensures installs, moves and
decommissions are planned,
tracked and communicated to
team members in a consistent
manner.
Benefits:
• Eliminate costly rework by seeing the impact of proposed changes before committing
resources.
• Defer capital expenditures by loading infrastructure based on actual loads as opposed to
modeled values.
• Comply with auditing requirements with a detailed record of changes made and the owner for
each change.
Site Manager
Reports on the health of the
infrastructure, enabling data center
staff to recognize and resolve
conditions that impact availability
and system performance including
power, cooling, temperature,
humidity, airflow and leaks.
Benefits:
• Reduce the risk of unplanned downtime with user-determined thresholds that focus only on
those alarms that need attention.
• Improve accuracy and speed of decisions with data normalization that eliminates manual
aggregation and interpretation of data from different devices.
• Proactively resolve complex issues, before alarms are generated, with comprehensive
historical trending that shows performance data in the context of the operation.
• Improve mean time to repair (MTTR) with a graphical representation of where an alarm is
being generated.
Energy Insight
Provides visibility into the energy
consumption and operating
efficiencies via a visual dashboard.
Benefits:
• Accurately calculate consumption and costs with current and historical efficiency metrics.
• Maximize energy usage, reduce utility costs and support green initiatives with configurable
data collected continuously, daily or monthly.
• Rapidly understand power usage effectiveness and data center infrastructure efficiency with
visual graphics.
• Streamline maintenance by adding and removing equipment from a single interface.
Achieving a New Level of
Data Center Performance
9. 9 Achieving a New Level of Data Center Performance
Scalable Infrastructure Monitoring with the
Avocent® Universal Management Gateway
Appliance
The Trellis™ platform is complemented by the Avocent Universal
Management Gateway appliance which provides an intelligent
communication portal to all the devices in a data center. This
single appliance eliminates the need to maintain multiple types
of monitoring systems. It fills the role of five separate products
and uniquely provides features of KVM, serial console, embedded
service processor, device data collection/monitoring, physical
environmental and sensors/security. These capabilities simplify
overall monitoring and management tasks, streamlining the
process through one convenient, easy-to-use device.
One of the distinctive capabilities of the Avocent Universal
Management Gateway appliance is its Trellis intelligence engine,
which means that all the data gathering and processing takes place
within the appliance. Placed strategically in data center racks, the
appliance processes and communicates natively with the devices
on the same subnet. As a result, it uses significantly less bandwidth
to gather and transmit data, enabling efficient scaling to manage
rapid growth in devices and data collection.
The built-in intelligence also facilitates remote access and control.
The appliance provides secure, out-of-band access to connected
devices, regardless of the operational state of the device’s
networking or operating system. Simple, browser-based sessions
provide connection to an end device with appropriate tools for
triage. Because the Avocent Universal Management Gateway
appliance provides the connections and administrative capabilities
to set up, maintain and monitor multiple data center environments
located anywhere in the world, IT organizations can increase
productivity, reduce MTTR and eliminate the need to maintain
staff in disaster recovery locations.
Conclusion
Forrester states that Emerson Network Power is currently one of two
dominant suppliers in the DCIM market.iv
There is good reason for
this. Through its decades of leadership in solutions for asset, power,
cooling, infrastructure management and embedded firmware,
Emerson Network Power has leveraged a wealth of expertise and
understanding about data center management to build the Trellis
platform.
To realize the value of the DCIM discipline, data centers need a
solution that goes far beyond just an easy way to collect data
from the infrastructure. By delivering complete, real-time data in
context, the Trellis platform offers the reliable and consistent insight
needed to drive high efficiency and capacity without compromising
availability. No other DCIM solution on the market today offers this
level of performance in a single intelligent platform.
i
Market Overview: Data Center Infrastructure Management Solutions,
Richard Fichera, Forrester
ii
“DCIM: Going Beyond IT”, Gartner
iii
“DCIM: Monitoring, Managing and Optimizing the Datacenter”, 450
Group, 5/11
iv
Market Overview: Data Center Infrastructure Management Solutions,
Richard Fichera, Forrester