APC by Schneider Electric InfraStruxure Management Software Portfolio 6.2

The InfraStruxure Management Software Portfolio 6.2 includes updates to its Central Monitoring Suite and Operations Suite as well as the introduction of an integration with VMware vSphere 4.1. These features provide a comprehensive view of the physical data centre infrastructure which allows users to manage and monitor an increasingly complex IT environment, including the deployment and management of virtual machines.

Operations Suite 6.2 offers enhanced network management capabilities, including a network report to provide a complete overview of available and used network capacity. With the bidirectional integration into VMware vSphere, users can quickly locate the physical location of a virtual machine and, in the case of power, cooling or environmental physical infrastructure events, virtual machines are moved from impacted host servers to healthy hosts for uninterrupted uptime and availability.

Designers’ one-click configuration and set-up enables users to automatically import room shape, equipment placement, and power and cooling dependencies.

Central Monitoring Suite 6.2 offers users a real-time data centre monitoring system that can be deployed instantly, managed from anywhere and integrated with other management systems. It features include consolidated reporting that provides easy access to all reports in one dashboard, including ‘sensor history’, ‘saved’ and snapshots of battery age, UPS load, device inventory and environmental conditions. Other features include future trending, enabling users to understand future environments based off historic data and customisable alerts to help compliance with established IT processes and procedures. It also incorporates Management Migration Utility that enables streamlined migration of information from Manager to Central 6.2.

Other portfolio products include: Central Configuration which can be used for improved appliance installation and application configuration; Energy Efficiency Configuration, a service that organises the energy-efficiency application to provide a dashboard into the data centre PUE and subsystem analysis; and Administrator Training.