Infrastructure Management & Monitoring for
Business-Critical ContinuityTM
Revolutionizing Data Center Infrastructure Management
The Trellis™ Platform
Is Your Data Center Operating at Peak
Performance?
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THE PRIORITIES: HIGH AVAILABILITY. OPERATIONAL
EFFICIENCY. IT AGILITY AND RESPONSIVENESS.
While every data center wants to achieve these goals, it isn’t easy. Once static environments with a just few servers, the modern data center is now a dynamic,
interdependent ecosystem of enormous complexity where even the smallest change has a cascading and potentially catastrophic impact.
The problem is that traditional tools used to manage today’s data centers are just not keeping up. Cumbersome, static and disconnected, these tools enable only fragmented data center management that slows down change and introduces a high degree of risk.
Transform Your Data Center
Management with a Dynamic Platform
Now, Emerson Network Power is revolutionizing data center management with the Trellis™ dynamic infrastructure optimization platform. Unlike siloed monitoring or static planning solutions, the Trellis platform delivers real-time visibility into the performance and relationships of all the components in your IT infrastructure, from the data center to facilities.
Leveraging Emerson Network Power’s proven expertise in asset, power, cooling, infrastructure management and embedded firmware technologies, the Trellis platform ends compartmental decision-making so that you can optimize every aspect of your IT infrastructure operations. The result is a new level of data center performance that makes it possible for you to achieve the high availability, operational efficiency and agility your business demands.
A New Kind of Confidence
Only the Trellis platform offers a unified solution for Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) with all of the hardware and software needed to erase the lines between once-isolated components and functions. This single-information source provides planning; asset, capacity, change and configuration management; monitoring; alerting; and automated management and control to help you more effectively manage the current configuration, accurately project future needs and cost effectively improve service levels for the business.
Move from reactive to proactive infrastructure management with the Trellis platform’s exclusive capabilities:
– Comprehensive real-time information provides deep insight into the operation and utilization of data center resources as well as accurate calculations for key metrics that are the basis for sound decision making.
– A Web-powered management and monitoring platform enables multiple actions to be executed simultaneously in a coordinated way and the impact of these decisions to be understood immediately.
Technological Innovation
Re-defining Real-Time
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The Previous Standard
The New Standard
• Data captured in physical storage • Filtered data is aggregated • Data returned to physical storage • No chance for true
real-time • Rules, Real-Time Filtering, Aggregation, Correlation, Pattern Matching • Symbols/Domain Model • Auto-discovery/ Sensing • Scalability • Data Streaming • Connectivity
Reap the Benefits of an
Integrated Approach to
Infrastructure Management
Unlike any other data center management tool, the Trellis platform combines software and hardware into an integrated solution for successfully managing the growing complexity of your data center. A key component of this unique solution is the Universal Management Gateway appliance, a multi-functional appliance which aggregates KVM, serial and service processor functionality with environmental and physical monitoring capabilities. With just this single appliance, you gain access and control of
heterogeneous servers, networking equipment, service processors and other devices.
UNIVERSAL MANAGEMENT GATEWAY BENEFITS Local Data Collection and Real-Time Monitoring
Discover and collect real-time data from a broad array of IT and facilities data center assets including servers, routers, switches, storage devices, CRACs, UPS, PDUs, batteries and sensors.
On-Demand Access and Control
Remotely manage assets at any time using a choice of industry-proven technologies.
Centralized Management
Access and control assets with a single, Web-enabled user interface designed in harmony with the Trellis platform software.
Automated Environmental Sensing
Proactively manage the environment with automatic sensing and reporting on such environmental factors as temperature and humidity, vibration, smoke, door activity and motion. Avocent Universal Management Gateway appliance - common collection engine Manages Windows servers Manages Linux servers and serial devices Manages service processors
Manages rack sensors/ environmentals
Manages PDU
DSView DCIM Applications
SENSORS SENSORS
RDU
Manages rack sensors/ environmentals Service Processor Manager Manages service processors Advanced Console Server Manages Linux/Unix servers, serial devices and IPDU
MergePoint UnityTM
Manages Windows servers and IPDU
CURRENT
POINT PRODUCTS SOLUTION
FUTURE
NETWORK NETWORK
Simplify Complex Data Center Management with the Trellis Platform
A suite of integrated components simplifies and streamlines every function of IT infrastructure
management to enhance operational efficiency, keep systems running at peak performance and
maximize the use of your assets.
TRELLIS PLATFORM
CAPABILITY BENEFITS
Inventory Management • Gain real-time insight into where capacity has been used and where it remains with a comprehensive inventory of all the assets in your data center.
• Reduce time and costs for floor and zone space management with a graphical interface that pinpoints every item’s floor or rack position.
Configuration Management • Improve equipment maintenance with a complete catalog of interrelationships and dependencies for power, network and storage connectivity.
• Quickly find and troubleshoot connection faults with automatic alerts when a user-defined threshold for a plan, group or device has been reached.
Operations Management • More efficiently use infrastructure and eliminate growth bottlenecks with real-time power consumption data, historical power usage trends and the ability to project future requirements.
• Effectively manage virtual layers with a complete view of virtual machine and physical device dependencies.
Change Planning • Make better deployment decisions with data based on actual consumption and capacity and the ability to preview the impact of changes.
• Increase control over change execution across multiple projects with precise instructions for each change.
Site Management • Assure business-critical continuity with comprehensive event management and alarm notifications. • Maintain service-level agreements with user-defined thresholds and detailed insight into environment
operating status and site conditions.
Energy Management • Accurately understand energy use and the cost of operating sub-systems with current and historical views of data center efficiency metrics including PUE, DCiE and kW/hours.
• Know exactly where efficiency losses are occurring within devices and sub-systems.
Power System Management • Manage the power chain from the utility meter to rack PDUs with graphical views of the real-time equipment state as well as the state of associated connections that reflect actual power flow though the system. • Forestall outages with user-defined threshold limits and proactive alerts when any connection is reaching the
threshold.
Trellis Platform Key Differences
AVAILABILITY
Understand capacity usage to make sure business-critical services are always running
Recognize dependencies to minimize risk associated with change
Optimize resources to extend the functional life of your existing infrastructureEFFICIENCY
Consolidate control over facilities and IT infrastructure
Leverage existingresources to reduce the cost-per-computing cycle
Accurately plan and execute to improve the productivity of people and processesAGILITY
Proactively manage capacity to anticipate change
Dynamically adapt the data center infrastructure as need arisesHow can I improve SLAs to the business?
Critical infrastructure management capabilities are included in a single platform, allowing you to see real-time
information from the critical infrastructure, utilize the analytical tools for decision making and execute several
actions simultaneously from a single user interface, reducing the amount of coordination and steps that are
required to address issues as well as visibility into trends that, if not addressed, will lead to a disruption in service.
Do I have the capacity to deploy new equipment and where is the optimal location?
A complete visual inventory of your assets, their locations, dependencies and performance are updated in
real-time so that you are always looking at the current status. An extensive element library allows you to model and
run scenarios for adding equipment, then view recommendations for optimal placement to ensure that the move
will be efficient and equipment is placed to enhance performance of all equipment in the area.
How do I eliminate stranded capacity?
Knowing how the data center is operating in real-time gives visibility into how to make operations more efficient
and how to reduce safety buffers to increase utilization of the existing capital investment and defer or eliminate
unneeded investments.
TM SiteWebTM SiteUnit RDU Aperture AIRM ApertureTM VistaTM LiebertTM NFormTM
Avocent Data Center PlannerTM
Avocent AMP
Liebert SiteScanTM Avocent DSViewTM
Avocent® KVM
CycladesTM Managed Power Strip
Power switching (Liebert/ASCO)
Real-time correlation/aggregation
Control (server management, power, cooling, environmental, storage) Power conditioning Power conversion Power distribution Visualization Space management (inventory, autodiscovery, enclosures, cmdb, planning) Heat transfer Airflow management
Data acquisition (temp, humidity, leak detection, battery)
INN O VATI ON CAP AB ILI TY EXP ER TISE COMM ITMEN T
Emerson Network Power –
A Proven Partner in Infrastructure Transformation
Hundreds of data centers worldwide rely on Emerson Network Power products, solutions and services to optimize their infrastructure management. With the transformational power of the Trellis platform, extensive resources, experience and technologies, Emerson Network Power is uniquely positioned to help organizations bridge the gap between data center and IT infrastructure layers, driving new levels of high availability, operational excellence and agile, responsive service.
• Leader in data center infrastructure solutions • Pedigree of solving facilities and IT infrastructure
challenges
• Part of the Global 100 software developers • Selected by world-leading OEM technology
vendors
• History of innovation and investment in research and development
Emerson Network Power.
The global leader in enabling Business-Critical ContinuityTM. AC Power
Connectivity DC Power
Embedded Computing Embedded Power
Infrastructure Management & Monitoring
Outside Plant
Power Switching & Controls Precision Cooling
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Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR), is the global leader in enabling Business-Critical ContinuityTM from grid to
chip for telecommunication networks, data centers, health care and industrial facilities. Emerson Network Power provides innovative solutions and expertise in areas including AC and DC power and precision cooling systems, embedded computing and power, integrated racks and enclosures, power switching and controls, infrastructure management, and connectivity. All solutions are supported globally by local Emerson Network Power service technicians. Aperture and Avocent solutions from Emerson Network Power simplify data center infrastructure management by
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