With an overwhelming number of IT assets to monitor, asset tracking in data centers has become a difficult process. Multiple excel files and visio diagrams, and home grown systems can be hard to use, hard to maintain, and error prone. As a result, your current solution might not be able to deliver the information you need, when you need it.
How do you know how much space, power, cooling, and network capacity is available in your data center? Where is the best place to reserve space and deploy new IT equipment for optimal utilization? How do you get the data you need to convince your management that you need more capacity? With data centers becoming increasingly dense and complex, capacity is at a premium. Modern data center managers are under pressure to make the most of the capacity, or risk failing to meet IT resource demand.
Sunbird’s DCIM software provides the data and capabilities you need for a complete, accurate view of capacity. Simplify how you find and reserve capacity, including physical space, power, and network connections, to optimize utilization. Leverage capacity report to clearly demonstrate to your management teams your need to purchase more capacity. Intelligently manage your data center resources to make more informed capacity planning decisions, use power resources more efficiently, and save on operating expenses.
Sunbird’s second-generation DCIM solution centralizes all your data and their associated connections to greatly simplify how you find, place and reserve resources. Take a test drive today and see for yourself how easy data center capacity planning and utilization can be.
Sunbird’s DCIM solution leverages real-time data for seamless, just-in-time reservations across multiple users on multiple projects. Simply provide the item make and model, and all the details you need are populated automatically. Once an item is planned for installation, the required space, data connections, and power connections are automatically reserved and blocked from being used for other projects.
Not sure which assets you want to install? To reserve just space capacity, simply provide the RU height, cabinet, and U-position. Add an expiration date to return the reservation to the available pool of resources in case your plans change.
Say goodbye to Visio diagram management with automatically created cabinet elevations. Now you don’t have to visit the data center floor to see what space you have in any cabinet. Identify available space capacity for multiple racks across any sites at a glance.