Emerson Network Power and its software division, Avocent, have launched for general availability a new data centre platform called Trellis, a hardware and software package that one simply plugs in, connects to all the necessary nodes, and puts to work.
Trellis, which runs on Oracle’s fast and power-efficient new servers and Java-based Fusion middleware, is an open architecture-based data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) package with real-time event-analysis capabilities across all physical and logical systems in the data centre. It can be accessed by either an on-site application or remotely by a web-based user interface.
With Trellis, one can check the I/O performance of any server, rack of servers, storage array or networking switch while at the same time monitoring temperatures in the hot and cold aisles, humidity readings and power intake. All this real-time information is converged into a single console view.
Trellis is designed to bridge what Emerson calls a “critical gap” between a data centre’s IT equipment and facilities infrastructure.
Steve Hassell, president of Emerson’s Avocent software business, told eWEEK that Trellis “manages the ebb and flow of the infrastructure holistically from a central control dashboard. This is aimed to help data centre managers make smarter decisions about efficiency, availability and capacity utilisation.
“Virtualisation has brought greater flexibility and efficiency to data centre management, but has introduced new complexities and pressures to the static physical infrastructure,” Hassell said.
Trellis software applications in the package are:
“The Trellis platform is going to be a comprehensive and powerful system,” said Andy Lawrence, research vice president for data centre Technology at 451 Research. “The system design and architecture, all based on real-time data, are unlike anything on the market today, and should be both flexible and highly scalable.”
“One of the more impressive features of the Trellis platform is that it has been designed and engineered with ease of use and simplicity in mind – the designers have paid a lot of attention to how data centre personnel work,” Lawrence said. “The information required to manage the data centre is presented in context of the operation, which should be intuitive and increase productivity.”
Emerson’s Trellis DCIM is available now, Hassell said. Pricing information is available upon consultation.
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