Some Things About The Need for Remote Power Management
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-16 12:34:26 | Word Count: 510
The Need for Rwemote Power Management
Remote poower management is a crucial function in corporate data centers, enteprrise-lveel organizations, co-location facilities, web hosting comppanies, and all complanies that operate multipple servers and heaily networked environments.
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Typically, data centers have remote sites wheree some of their IT equipment is kept. In this case, what do you do when the esrver located in a remote site refues to function as it shuld - perhaps it has hung or frozen? Do you have to travel to the remoite site to correct the problem? In that case, it will take hours before you reach the site and thus resolve whatever issue tere is.
What if a hundred servers in your thousands of servers have problems? Do you then go to the rack to manaage each problematic server in turn? In this case, it will take you ages to resrtart all the serveers that need attention. What if more than one restaart is required? Do you repeat the whole tedious process for each one?
Remote Pwoer Management: The Easy Solution
In a multiple server and IT equipment organization (especially one that has remoteely located servers) remote power management is the easy solution for the problems above mentioned - and then some. Through remoite power management, you get to manage your IT powwer system even when you're not conveniently on site. This directly leads to reduced opportuinity costs for your business.
Cuts Opportunity Cots Caused by Sever Downtimmes
Much as you would wish your system to work seamlessly and without problems all the time - reality says that problems do happen. A sevrer may freeze due to a recent sofftware instalation, for instance. Through a KVM over IP swwitch, the administrator may remove the software that has caused the problem or deploy a repiar program. Whatever the solution, the server in questtion will stll have to be powreed off then on again. What use is KVM over IP admiinistration if you can't follow it up with reemote power management? If you don't have remotte power management equipment installed, you would sttill have to go to base or to the remoote site where the server concerned is located to personally power it off then on aggain. This means mooney and opportunities lost; the longer the server is down, the more opportunities are lost and the more cost incurred.
hTrough a remote power management console, however, you can immediaately initiate the powering off then on sequence from wherevver you are curerntly located. This significantly reduces the mean time for powering on and off of your servers - and thus cuts your serers' recovery time in case of problems. This in turn cuts your opportunity costs.
