Power management optimization of enterprise IT equipment in digital transformation

Digitalization has penetrated into every corner of life, and digital transformation is developing very strongly in all walks of life. Companies are using software to transform their businesses to create new products, services and even new business models. New applications and workloads are emerging, and IT environments must support them for organizations to innovate and compete in the digital economy.

These fundamental shifts in enterprise IT environments require new approaches to infrastructure deployment that meet the demands of the digital economy. At the core of this infrastructure is a modern virtualization platform purpose-built for digital transformation, ranging from on-premises data centers to cloud environments.

Manufacturing quickly embraces virtualization

The new generation of information technology such as the Internet, cloud computing, and big data is deeply integrated with the manufacturing industry, and its comprehensive and integrated application in the entire process and industry chain of enterprise R&D and design, production and manufacturing, operation management, and sales services has triggered far-reaching industrial changes. .

Virtualization is the cornerstone of cloud computing. Through virtualization, single server resources are divided into multiple fine-grained resources, achieving efficient resource utilization. For example, the energy management system, MES system, ERP system, unattended card system, equipment management and online detection system in the informatization of manufacturing enterprises, as well as more distributed systems in the future, can be unified planning and various distributed systems through server virtualization. Responsible for sharing platforms and resources, and improving various production application systems to help enterprises integrate IT and save costs. The combination of virtualization and business allows manufacturing companies to find ways to master new technologies and innovate advanced manufacturing systems and advanced manufacturing models.

Virtualization poses power management challenges

Not only in the manufacturing industry, virtualization has become an element in building modern enterprises, and a large number of businesses rely on virtualization systems. While virtualization brings low cost, simplified hardware management, improved space utilization efficiency, enhanced availability and many other advantages to IT equipment, it also causes the IT environment to become increasingly larger and more complex. Virtualization management tools typically provide good management of virtual machines and the physical servers that host them. However, such products rarely have built-in power management capabilities, making power management in critical business infrastructure very difficult for enterprise IT operators.

For example, many enterprises using virtualized management suites often have to use a separate set of management tools to monitor the power infrastructure, thereby reducing productivity and extending response times when failures occur. In addition, although the live migration capabilities of many virtualization management suites allow virtual machines to be dynamically transferred between different host servers under certain conditions, few products have built-in functions that can automatically migrate virtual workloads during power outages. In many cases this feature is indispensable.

UPS new responsibilities to establish interaction with virtualization platform

Eaton, a global power management company, provides power management solutions for virtualized IT environments that closely meet user needs. It embeds Eaton IPM - an intelligent power system management software that can be plugged into virtualization management tools - into multiple series of UPS products to easily cope with the four major strategies. Power management challenges brought by virtualization.

Strategy: Bring power management to the server console

By deploying Eaton IPM, data center operation and maintenance personnel can simultaneously view, monitor and manage the operation of physical servers and virtual servers, as well as UPS, power distribution units and other key infrastructure through the same console.

Preventive maintenance strategy to nip problems before they happen

After receiving real-time notifications of fault signs (such as battery overheating), preventive maintenance can be performed to greatly improve system reliability.

The strategic plan ensures uninterrupted operation of critical applications

During a long power outage, suspend non-critical applications according to a preset plan to ensure the same backup time of critical applications with less hardware investment; or automatically migrate critical applications to the disaster recovery area and then calmly shut down the affected ones. servers and network equipment.

Strategy: automatic migration of virtual machines when power is abnormal

The most distinctive feature of Eaton's IPM intelligent power management software is that it is compatible with mainstream virtual operating systems such as Windows Server; VMware's vCenterTM, Citrix XenCenter, etc., and is seamlessly integrated with its virtualization management solutions. Through interoperability with live migration systems, Eaton IPM intelligent power management software can automatically and gracefully move virtual machines from affected host servers to healthy servers during outages, helping enterprises to survive even unexpected disasters. During this period, you are protected from the loss of critical business shutdowns caused by data loss or application downtime.

Eaton's IPM intelligent power management software makes up for the shortcoming of virtualization management tools that do not have built-in power management functions through a variety of advanced power management functions, and can be seamlessly integrated into mainstream virtualization software platforms on the market for disaster preparedness and recovery power management. It has been maturely used in multiple series of Eaton UPS products, allowing enterprise IT operation and maintenance managers to directly operate the management functions of UPS and power distribution systems from a unified virtualization control platform, allowing enterprises to benefit from the advantages brought by server virtualization. It has many advantages while reducing the losses caused by power outages. The above is the relevant introduction to power management optimization of enterprise IT equipment in digital transformation.