The latest version of Eaton Corporation’s Intelligent Power Manager software has been launched for the monitoring and management of power devices in IT environments and data centres. The updated software includes compatibility with the VMware vSphere 5.1 virtualisation platform, Microsoft Windows 8 and Server 2012 operating systems and also introduces a new load shedding module which helps extend available battery back-up time for VMware virtualised system environments.
Upon detection of a power outage, Eaton’s software will suspend or shutdown virtual machines (VMs) according to the system’s configuration. When VMware’s Distributed Power Manager is active, it will automatically consolidate the remaining active VMs before idling inactive servers.
The update improves upon Intelligent Power Manager software’s existing VMware integration that enables IT personnel to view, monitor and administer not only physical and virtual servers, but also UPSs, enclosure Power Distribution Units (ePDUs) and other power devices directly through VMware’s vCenter Server dashboard.
The software also enables users to initiate automatic and transparent live migrations of virtual machines and can trigger VMware Site Recovery Manager’s disaster recovery and planned migration processes, therefore moving critical applications to available servers either within an organisation, or to a co-located facility or public cloud.
Following a detailed validation process, Intelligent Power Manager software has been certified VMware Ready.
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