Knowing accurately what you have and where it is located is integral to data center management. It provides solid baseline to efficient operations, resources allocation and future planning. It allows you to right size your data center and maximize physical floor and rack space. When you locate your assets quickly, you save time and money—decreasing mean time to repair (MTTR) and making it easier to budget and allocate resources properly.
CHALLENGES
INVENTORY ACCURACY
Have a true grasp of your resources and their location
Solution
Maintain a central device library including all device details, de-rated values and unique properties.
DEVICE PLACEMENT
dentify ideal location for device placement. Design and manage floor layout.
Solution
Use graphical visualization tools to map out floor space and show capacity that is available and consumed at any point.
ASSET AUDITING AND TRACKING
Manage changes in current environment. Find stranded capacity.
Solution
Perform asset audits and real-time tracking of assets / configuration management database (CMDB) remediation
GROWTH AND EXPANSION
Plan future device placement for projects and reservations
Solution
Utilize real-time and historical data in developing future plans.
