Accurate power and thermal data reported from Intel® DCM can also be a fundamental ingredient in some more advanced use cases, including right sizing datacenter power and capacity planning, power based metering and charge-back services, closed coupled cooling and integration with facilities systems, and power based resource balancing and integration with workload schedulers and VMMs.
Intel® DCM features include:
- Flexible data center hierarchy modeling
- Monitoring
- Real-time monitoring of actual power and inlet temp data aggregated to rack, row, room and user-defined logical groups
- Receive alerts based on custom power and thermal events
- Trending
- Log power and thermal data, query trend data using filters
- Saves 1 year of history data for capacity planning
- Control
- Intelligent and patented group policy engine
- Supports multiple concurrent active power policy types at multiple hierarchy levels
- Accepts workload priority as policy directive
- Allow scheduling of policies including power capping, by time of day or/and day of week
- Maintains group power capping while dynamically adapting to changing server loads
- Agent-less
- Does not require installation of any software agents on managed nodes
- Easy integration and co-existence
- Exposes high level Web Services Description Language (WSDL) APIs
- Can reside on an independent management server or co-exist with ISV product on same server
- Scalability
- Manages up to 5000 managed nodes for one stand-alone server
- Manages up to 10000 managed nodes in two-tier architecture
- Security
- Secured APIs
- Secured communication with managed nodes
- Encryption of all sensitive data
Data Center Management Console Vendors (ISVs), System Integrators (SIs) and Data Center IT organizations can easily integrate Intel® DCM into their console or command-line applications and provide high value power management features to Large IT organizations, cloud providers and Data centers. Please contact us 
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