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At a Glance

CA Data Center Infrastructure Management (CA DCIM) captures detailed real-time information about energy use acrossyour data centers and operational facilities, helping enable you to measure, trend, alert, and take action. CA DCIM alsohelps you visualize your data center environment in 3D and manage the space, power and cooling capacity of yourenvironment to better meet your business objectives. The solution also provides a baseline from which you can reducecosts, make better use of capacity, and enhance operational reliability and performance, as well as deliver continuousinformation for ongoing improvement.

Business challenges

Data centers often have insufficient space, power or cooling capacityto meet operational needs, or use it inefficiently. Uptime and avail-ability are lowered when power is not dependable. Service qualityand SLAs are at risk. The lack of detailed insight into consumption,space and environmentals leads to unnecessary costs. This leads tolimited agility in the face of business needs.

Staff may spend large amounts of time determining where to placenew equipment or trying to plan to meet consolidation goals or ex-panding business requirements. The lack of tools and insight maylimit effective management.

Solution Brief

CA DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

Key Benefits and Results

CA DCIM can help your organization to:

Enable data collection from multiple systems andprotocols, avoiding the inefficiencies of manual efforts.

Provide superior monitoring and alarming for facilities,with centralized visualization of power, space and coolinginformation for rapid insight, analysis, and control.

Optimize management of, and planning for resources,maintenance activities and work dispatch.

Enable capacity management for more effective use ofdata center infrastructure and planning.

Reduce costs with visibility into space and powerutilization, allowing for smart, real-time decision making.

Solution overviewCA DCIM is a web-based centralized solution for monitoring power, cooling and environmentals across facilities andIT systems in the data center as well as managing the use of space and lifecycle of assets which make up the datacenter infrastructure. CA Technologies innovative approach to data center infrastructure management helps organi-zations obtain much greater insight and management of energy and power in the data center and reduce the cost of

data management. With CA DCIM, you have the most completeand business-aligned vision for DCIM in the industry. It encom-passes three critical areas:

Power and Cooling

Capacity and Inventory

IT Management and Business Services

CA DCIM is also able to capture power and cooling information inreal-time, manage and inventory physical assets for operationalmanagement, and manage the logical layer of applications andservices so you can deliver IT management and business servicesthat are business-relevant.

Built on a proven and scalable platform, CA DCIM can aggregate data from thousands of devices and hundreds oflocations and display dashboards and trend charts to enable smart decisions on improving data center efficiency.With CA DCIM you can collect data from highly diverse devices and systems using SNMP or other protocols such asBACnet or Modbus and easily track assets within the data center and provide powerful 3D visualization. In addition,CA DCIM enables integration of DCIM with broader IT Management and business service provision.

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Figure 3. Monitor space after adding new equipment

Figure 2. Mobile power monitoring

Figure 1. Real-time infrastructure management

KeyCapabilities

Benefits

Data Collection Combines data from various devicesthat communicate across a wide rangeof protocols and then uploads data tomake it readily available in a commonsystem.

Calculation,Analysis andReporting

Built-in formulas and calculations. Cre-ate elements that can calculate andstore any user-defined variable datawith every poll. Live reporting, trendsand chargeback reports.

3D Visualization View the data center in 3- dimensionsfor more rapid understanding of datacenter layout and inventory locations

Alerting Uses patented Deviation-from-Normaland Time-over-Threshold technology toprovide intelligent alerting

Control Actuation of control for both physicaland virtual environments. Physical con-trol may include VFD-enabled fans.Examples of Virtual environments in-clude VMware.

Provisioning Device auto-placement increases workefficiency by automatically placing adevice in auto-selected location, con-necting power, network and storageports in a few easy steps

Capacity Planning Future capacity planning with what-ifcapabilities

Asset Discovery Auto-discover a range of asset types.Where this occurs, this avoids a largeamount of manual effort.

Facility systemsand device inte-grations

Extend beyond typical DCIM systems toinclude card access systems, IP cam-eras and more

IT Managementintegrations

Integrates operational energy manage-ment with broader IT managementcapabilities from Service Desk to

workload automation to virtualizedenvironment and application mapping

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