Data center capacity planning. What capacity do you have across your data center estate right now?
How EkkoSoft Critical capacity planning tool easily gives you the cooling, power and space answers you need.
Data center capacity planning. Managing cooling capacity, power capacity and available space across multiple rooms used to be a challenge for data center operations teams – particularly across an enterprise.
With its true real-time capacity, power and space planning capability, EkkoSoft Critical can make a huge difference when used as a capacity planning tool. Traditional capacity management approaches invariably involved struggling with drawing tools such as Visio, and doing battle with Excel to try and work out whether you had the power and cooling you needed in one room – let alone across your extended estate. By the time you had the results from your Excel, it was probably out of date and inaccurate anyway!
EkkoSoft Critical’s real-time monitoring of data center power and cooling capacity makes the operation and management of space, power, and cooling so much easier, with all the information you need in one place – in real-time. You’ll benefit from:
- A single capacity planning view across your entire estate, with granular monitoring providing real-time insight into your cooling and power performance
- An intuitive 3D visualization of each room’s layout with underlying data and analysis always available regardless of how many sites you have
- And simple Zone of Influence analysis that clearly explains the existing relationships between individual cooling units and the racks they serve.
Because EkkoSoft Critical is so easy to understand it provides operations teams with a data center capacity planning overview that’s faster, quicker, and more accurate than approaches – giving you and your team the tangible M&E insights they need to make smart capacity decisions. What’s my peak load? Am I loading up or loading down? Can I put an additional 3 kilowatt rack in this room – yes or no? And, most importantly, where in the room will it go?
This level of insight can prove invaluable when you’re chasing down available capacity across multiple rooms. But instead of just going on base plate data, EkkoSoft Critical tells you exactly how much power is being consumed – so you may actually have more capacity than you expected. Our software can also play a key role in verifying historical capacity management decisions. Maybe all that ring-fenced capacity isn’t actually being used as much as originally specified, or there may even be servers running that simply aren’t required any more. Releasing this kind of stranded capacity, not only reveals space but can often delay the requirement for expensive additional capex spending and associated energy costs.
Watch our latest Tech Tips video to see how EkkoSoft Critical enables data center teams gather and visualize capacity at a much more granular level. And go here for a free EkkoSense demonstration.
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