Trellis Inventory Manager

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Emerson Network Power Solution Suite

The Trellis Platform

Visibility of all data center devices is vital when tracking assets. However, the high growth and fast-changing environment in data centers make tracking them nearly impossible. Data center managers are required to track inventory deployed and utilized capacity as well as available capacity.. Also, they have to manage interrelationships and dependencies among devices for maintenance and troubleshooting when thresholds for plan, group or device are reached. The Trellis platform lets those responsible for the data center obtain unprecedented visibility and control over their critical infrastructure, inspiring a new kind of confidence through continuity and control. This comes through the reporting of realtime information on capacity utilized and available capacity. Having a comprehensive inventory of all assets and their locations in the data center reduces time and costs when deploying new equipment and, more importantly, when managing connection faults.

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Benefits
Minimize effort brought by manual, outdated or conflicting lists of data center assets Minimize errors due to outdated or conflicting lists of assets; you maintain only one comprehensive source of documentation for all devices in the data center Find equipment (and relevant asset data) quicker through the use of a search-and-locate feature Fast-track device placement, provisioning or decommissioning with help from a comprehensive and unified floor, rack plan and device plan Quickly determine what connections exist for a chosen asset (no more tracing cables behind racks) Reduce time spent and personnel traffic inside the data center Understand exactly what capacities exist within the data center, what has already been used and what is remaining, understanding how the consumption levels rate against thresholds that apply

Trellis Inventory Manager

The Trellis Inventory Manager addresses these challenges on tracking and managing assets within the data center. It does this in many ways, including providing a set of graphical visualization tools to allow the data center infrastructure team to map out its floor space and understand what assets exist, where they are, who they belong to and how they are connected and ,then quickly find additional data on any deployed asset. Trellis Inventory Manager allows users to collect a detailed catalog of all the inventory items that are placed in the data center. They can see where all devices are located and understand how much capacity (power, cooling, weight and space) is available and consumed at any point in the data center based on faceplate or de-rated values. In addition to creating a repository of all assets, Trellis Inventory Manager provides an ability to show the capacities (space, power cooling, weight) that exist in any floor/space, inside any elevation (e.g., rack) and inside the actual assets (e.g., blade chassis). This allows the user to quickly see where capacities exist, what has already been consumed and what is remaining for placement of further assets. With Trellis Inventory Manager, there is no need for spreadsheets, Visio diagrams, physically searching the data center and endless meetings. Simply use Trellis Inventory Manager to provide an accurate view of the data center and quickly show where you have capacity for adding more assets.

Trellis Inventory Manager

TM

Emerson Network Power Solution Suite

Manage Data Center Assets Visually

Get complete data center inventory visibility in both textual and graphical formats Import the AutoCAD drawing of the physical data center floor plan (which is scaled to coincide on unit of linear measurement) and place designated zones and spaces on it; you get a realistic guide on the location of racks View spaces and zones in an XY-tiled format to get a higher level of precision in pinpointing devices; you get overhead and elevation views of racksthe best mimic of the physical floor layout available Manage inventory by using symbolic library representation for all devices; its like being physically present inside the data center Find specific devices, especially in heterogeneous ecosystems, more easily since you have a visual reference Create realistic floor plan models by importing AutoCAD plans and plotting the racks in the blueprint Divide the data center plan based on functions by defining spaces, as well as zones within those spaces, so all users can quickly differentiate which areas are for production, staging and safety Divide the data center space into layers to represent below the tiles, on the white space and above the ceiling Use familiar graphical symbols to represent all devices placed in the data center and on plans Create rack elevation views to show the exact placement of all devices in your racks Search and locate the full data center inventory

See Connections When You View a Device

View a full record of all connections to a specific asset, as well as connection details like cable type, identifier, owner and maintenance date Visualize the total capacity consumption on any top-down view to show where you have capacity remaining and where you are nearing the limit on consumption Determine all power connections associated with a rackmounted device so you can verify the status of all assets in the same power chain Ensure a servers power redundancy through power dependency monitoringyoull see if two different rack PDUs are connected to the selected device View connections right from the software interface, reducing the need to send personnel into the facility to search around the cabling at the back of the rack Show the power connections between any device port and its upstream or downstream devices Select a device and view all its properties, capacities, contained devices and connections to other devices Search for locations where a chosen device can be placed and have sufficient space, power, cooling and weight-bearing capacities to support that device

Trellis Inventory Manager

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