Dominion PX - Get the Power to Control Power

Outlet-level remote power management and control over IP

Organisations are more dependent than ever on computing resources to handle everything mission-critical applications. Data centre facilities are under increasing pressure to flawlessly add significant, reliable computing power whether the data centre is experiencing rapid growth, consolidating from multiple locations or trying to extract more capacity out of an existing space.

While blade servers have addressed some of the challenges placed on IT staff, such as cramming more computational power into a limited amount of space, this new technology has also created its own set of problems.

Today, both IT administrators and facilities managers are addressing questions like, "Am I getting enough power to the blades?""Are there racks with excess capacity?" and "Am I getting enough cooling to those racks?"

By deploying an the Dominon PX Intelligent Power Management solution IT and Facilities managers can gain a better understanding of the actual power being used by each device in their Data Centre:

Identifying idle or underutilized servers
Improved Data Centre cooling efficiency
Determining rack and server power capacity and Aassisting Moves/Adds/Changes
The effects of virtualisation on power and HVAC

The Dominion PX provides per outlet monitoring, enabling IT administrators to manage the power used by every device in your Data Centre. They can meter power at both the PDU level and the individual outlet level; support alerts based on user-defined thresholds; provide security in the form of passwords, authentication, authorization and encryption and incorporate rich environmental management capabilities.

All models are designed as compliant secure network devices and will integrate with your existing IT infrastructure using open standards and protocols such as; SNMP, IPMI, SMASH CLP which means you can use your existing Dashboards and Event Management Systems to display and report live data.

Existing dynamic links to our Data Centre Management System provide live data links to a graphical floor plan with Capacity Planning and Work Flow management.

Power IQ

Power IQ is a new, secure, centralised power management solution that consolidates high volumes of power data and transforms it into useful information, simply and efficiently.

Drawing data from the Dominion PX and other devices, Power IQ allows you to:

Collect data from servers and other devices at the outlet level, including current, voltage, power factor and active and apparent power measurements
Provide an added level of enterprise security, with LDAP/AD integration, trusted host definitions and up to 256-bit AES encryption
Manage patches for your iPDUs
Integrate systems via scripting and open data architecture

With Power IQ and the knowledge it brings to your desktop, you can leverage dynamic per device power data to improve energy efficiency, uptime and capacity planning in your Data Centre.

For more information about Dominion PX call us 08450 177 017 or buy online.