1. Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Defined
Scott Tegman –
Regional Sales Manager, Data Center Solutions

2. Emerson Network Power Enabling Business-Critical Continuity™
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Emerson Electric Co.; Proprietary Information

3. The Data Center – The Internet of EVERYTHING
Automatic Transfer Switch
Fire Pump Controller
Extreme Density Precision Cooling
Power Distribution Units
Precision Cooling
Surge Suppression
Uninterruptible Power Systems & Batteries
Integrated Rack
Rack
Data Center Operational Data is SILOED EVERYWHERE

4. DCIM Defined - Emerson Emerson Network Power defines DCIM as:
“The monitoring, collection and analysis of real-time, continuous, accurate information from an intelligent infrastructure that allows for immediate action, designed to keep the data center in an optimal state of balance between availability, efficiency and capacity.”
Wiki Definition –
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is a category of solutions which were created to extend the traditional data center management function to include all of the physical assets and resources found in the Facilities and IT domains. DCIM deployments over time will integrate information technology (IT) and facility management disciplines to centralize monitoring, management and intelligent capacity planning of a data center's critical systems. Since DCIM is a broadly used term which covers a wide range of data center management values, each deployment will include a subset of the full DCIM value needed and expected over time.[1]

5. IT, Data Center, Critical Facility
DCIM vs. BMS
Some Overlap Exists Between DCIM and BMS
Power/Electrical, Cooling/HVAC
Key Differentiator is DCIM provides a Data Center Perspective
DCIM is Designed to Provide Data Center Managers with the Information they Need to Get Their Jobs Done
IT, Data Center, Critical Facility
Management
Facility
Management
BMS
DCIM
HVAC
Precision Cooling Systems
Electrical Systems
Critical Power Systems
BMS provide facility managers to track HVAC operation, electrical system operation, lighting, building security, fire systems
DCIM provides data center management with cooling and power capacity/efficiency information for ensuring they are providing a 24x7 operating environment for the IT equipment in the data center.
The key difference is that while many different systems can monitor equipment (SNMP, MODBUS, BACNET), a DCIM system collects and delivers the relevant information, in context, for data center management staff to do their jobs (which are different than that of traditional facility managers). So DCIM systems provide information for processes like, capacity management (how much capacity is left in a rack, how efficiently am I using my PDUs/UPSs), change management (where should I put this server), incident/problem management (where is a device)
Lighting Control
IT/Facility Equipment Inventory/Location
Security and Access
Workflow/Change
Management
Fire
Reporting and Dashboards

6. Data Center Software Categories
DCIM
Customer Expectations
BMS
EPMS
Basic Monitoring
Asset Tracking
ITSM
Primary Functions
Reporting, Operation & Control
Alarms, Alerts, Status
Planning, Monitoring, Change Management
IT Planning, Operations, Change Management
Domain
Building
(Power, Security, Elevator, Pumps, etc.)
Critical Power
Facility (and some IT) Equipment
IT, Power, Thermal
O/S, Software, Applications
Products
Siemens, Johnson Controls, Schneider
ASCO, Schneider, Eaton
SiteScan, Nform, Trellis
Aperture, Data Center Planner,
Trellis
HP, IBM, CA, BMC
DCIM Encompasses Monitoring and Asset Tracking, and Many of our Legacy Products. Trellis Spans the Entire Category

7. What Is DCIM to YOU (IT/Facilities/Operations)?
Documentation of Information in the Data Center
Critical Infrastructure Devices – UPS, CRAC, Breakers/Panels
IT Devices – Servers, Network, Storage
Cabling – Power Chain & Network Connectivity
Reporting
Management of Infrastructure and IT Devices
Capacity Consumption, Planning, & Trending
Change Management, Process Management, Compliance
Documentation of information related to items that reside in a datacenter
Infrastructure devices such as CRACs, UPSs, PDUs, RPPs, generators, switchgear
IT Devices such as Servers, Storage devices, network devices (routers, switches)
Cabling (network, SAN, power)
Management of infrastructure and IT devices in the datacenter
Capacity consumption
Change management
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8. Capacity Planning & Agility
Customer Focus Area’s
Availability
Efficiency & Cost
Capacity Planning & Agility
Compliance
Monitor facilities / IT dependencies
Automate impact analyses
Eliminate risk with root cause analyses
Identify redundancy gaps
Minimize energy
Identify energy inefficiencies
Understand IT services TCO
Optimize resource utilization
Improve process efficiency
Centralize IT equipment data
Understand data center asset inventory
Plan future IT services
Optimize IT resource deployment
Model deployment scenarios
Control / log IT systems access
Control physical access to data center
Meet government / industry energy efficiency standards
Simplify complex eco-system management

9. Stages of Data Center Infrastructure Management
What and where are assets in the data center?
How are they interconnected?
Do we have space, cooling and power to meet future needs?
How can I efficiently commission or decommission?
Data Capture and Planning
Improved Planning
How are my assets operating?
Am I getting real-time notification of alarms and alerts?
How do I get my server back up and running?
Can I populate my planning tools with actual performance data?
Monitor and Access
Early Warning
(Reactive)
Analyze and Diagnose
Recommend and Automate
How do I extend the life of the data center?
How do I reduce mean time to repair (MTTR)?
How do I sync infrastructure with virtualization automation?
How are we doing against SLAs?
How do I anticipate potential failures and automatically shift compute and physical load to eliminate downtime?
How can I optimize efficiency across my data center?
One of the things that we did at Emerson Network Power was break down the problem and put it into stages so we could get our head around it. Really looking at what operational maturity needed to be in place before you could begin to recommend/automate.
The first one on the left is Data Capture and Planning. If you don’t know what you have, it is impossible to move forward and become more efficient. Not having a clear, cohesive inventory of the equipment on the floor – its dependencies and configuration, you cannot move forward. Understanding what you have, where it is located and building a model of the infrastructure. This is really where you begin to see the facility and IT teams start to come together. Today, you will see many solutions on the market that focus on the planning portion. The benefits are real and the value prop to most organizations is that you toss out spreadsheets and disparate tools. The important thing to look at, and we will get into more of this later is how do grow from that point forward.
Once you know what you have, you can begin the monitor, access and control. What you are effectively doing is getting a flow of information go through the devices and sending commands to effect change. Taking the input from hundreds or thousands of devices (your power, cooling, servers) and combining the into a common language where software can understand what is going on.
When that flow of information is in place – you can start of ask questions . The analogy is a data warehouse. You can go deeper and deeper and begin to analyze and diagnose why things occur. How do I extend the life of my data center, the very types of questions VM ware was answering to get people hooked on virtualization are the same things you can apply to the physical infrastructure.
Finally, you can start to recommend an automate. Ideally your virtualization software should say “I need to move this operational load to server a,b,c or d. And your infrastructure would say, well It would be best if you chose server C. The virtualization software says OK!!!
Or, if you were going to “follow the moon” a term that is becoming more popular, you would have the production load move so it is always running somewhere in the middle of the night when electrical costs are the cheapest. To execute, you must have communication between the physical and virtual layers.
It is definitely not practical to say this will happen overnight.
Reduced MTTR
and Effort
Availability at
Optimal Performance
(Proactive)
Each Stage Provides Positive ROI Allowing Varying Adoption Approaches And Speed

10. What’s The Value of DCIM?
Real-Time Data Integration
UPSs, PDUs, RPPs
CRACs
Generators, ATSs
Temperature sensors
Rack PDUs
Server Sensor Data – power/temp
Inventory/Asset “awareness”
Automated notification of alarms and thresholds
Automatic data capture for trending and capacity analysis
Full visibility to Asset Information
Access to Space, Power, Cooling Data
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11. DCIM Tools Today Documentation of information in the Data Center
Critical Infrastructure Devices – Define Rated Loads
IT Devices (make, model, location, asset tags, Impact on Data Center)
Cabling (power, copper, fiber connections)
Rack Elevation Views, Top Down Floor Plan
Reporting on Data Center Health
Capacity Planning
Project Planning and future reservations
Integration to ITSM/Asset Mgmt (Finance) & Ticketing Systems
Monitoring of infrastructure and IT Devices
Real time alarm escalation
Real time and historical data trending
Correlation of IT and Facilities events
Include product names and mention the role of each in the
overall operation and who ultimately owns them

12. What prompts organizations to get started?
Initiatives for Monitoring and IT Equipment Inventory
Site Monitoring
Undefined alarms-escalation points & thresholds
Need for automated capture of trend data (capacity planning/projections)
Unmanned sites
IT equipment inventory
Documentation on power paths and impact of points of failure
Inventory of devices and locations
Needed process to manage moves, adds, and changes
Reporting requirements to Sr Management on Data Center Trends and Health

13. Data Center Power Allocation
Preserving Availability Through Increased Safety Margin = Lower Power Capacity Utilization
Data Center Power Allocation
CRAC
fans
10%
Actual Capacity
Stranded Capacity
Dynamic Changes
Buffer Limit
Power
Other 55%
Chiller 18%
Power Usage
Server
fans
10%
Mid changes
Dynamic Changes
Time
“Data center power capacity includes buffers intended to absorb spikes in power use caused by peaks in resource utilization. These buffers are typically based on either nameplate or nominal server power consumption or power consumption measured at peak utilization with specific workloads.”
Everyone today is creating a safety margin today.
At each point in the power chain, they are creating a margin. This rolls up and there is a large unused amount of capacity that exists today. Customers begin to think that they are out of capacity long before they actually need to be concerned.
Similar to what Vmware did with servers, we believe that you can do the same thing with data center capacity. If you think about how reducing the stranded capacity can positively impact the capital or operational expenses, the ROI is very high. Simply looking at what it costs to build out space, more than justifies the investment in products that eliminate waste.
Static
Source: Intel White Paper - Increasing Data Center Efficiency with Server Power Measurements

14. Funding/Budget Planning
Start the conversations now with your co-workers in IT, Facilities, Operations, Finance, Business Leaders
Take the time to understand the Capex and Opex costs associated with deploying and maintaining a DCIM application.
Understand the full economic impact to the business
License Costs
Installation/Profession Services
Staff Augmentation for Data Collection or subject matter expertise needs
Internal Staff Resources
Training & Internal Documentation
Integration to existing IT Systems

15. DCIM features to look for…
Integrated workflow
Easily customizable – adjust for existing processes
Automated notifications – s approvals
Automatic escalation
Approval and tracking steps in the workflow
Power and connection paths
Blade Server support
Audit capabilities
Simple user interface (ongoing training)
Batch import/update
Ability to generate and automate reporting

16. Things to watch-out for:
From Real Customer -
Allow enough time to really work through requirements
Create buy-in by building a multi-disciplinary team to do the evaluation/implementation
Hardware interfaces are complex, know your existing environment
Start working on Modbus/SNMP registries/MIBS early
Wiring and connections take time
Test…Test…Test (validate as many alarms as you can)
Often requires multiple vendors working together to resolve issues
IT device database build/population takes a lot of time and is changing while you build

17. Companies are deploying today -
Adopting Verticals –
Financial Services, Banking
Insurance/Healthcare Vertical
Transportation
Universities
Federal Vertical
Technology Companies
Pharmaceutical

18. DCIM in the future
Closer integration between facilities and IT elements
More real-time data collection and integrating that data with inventory
Device “discovery” and automated change detection/notification
More integration with virtual server management systems (tracking virtual to physical)
Better interfaces/dashboards for extracting and analyzing collected data
More customization tools in the hands of users vs vendor provided professional services
Thermal Mapping and Integration with Cooling devices
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19. Preparing for the future
Process and Policy improvements:
Change control
Device, cable, cabinet, room naming and labeling
Centralizing who makes changes in the computer room
Documenting the existing environment
Inventory
Connections
House Cleaning
De-commission/remove “zombie” servers & devices
Remove unused cabling
Install “smart” devices when doing a technology refresh
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20. Invest and grow incrementally – recognize returns
Trellis System Overview
Browser
iPad
Mobile
Virtual tracking
ThermAL manager
Efficiency
Change Planner
Process Manager
Power
System Manager
Energy
insight
INVENTORY MANAGER
SITE MANAGER
I love that question 
We have solidified tables stakes . . Engineering and the architecture first. . .can we gather the information? Can we gather it quickly? How will it be stored, how will it be routed . . This is firmly in place now
If you are an existing customer you can be confident that you have a pathway to the platform and a commitment to the future.
We are realizing the vision of all of our DCIM products in a way that increases the value the customer receives.
Foundation
PLATFORM SERVICES
Management Console
Invest and grow incrementally – recognize returns

21. DCIM – Trellis Capabilities
Improve change management process
Inventory Manager
Change Planner
Improve response time
Inventory Manager
Mobile Suite
Reduce Downtime
Site Manager
Pwr System Mgr
Meet/ Exceed budget restraints
Inventory Manager
Energy Insight

22. The Trellis™ Platform Inventory Manager
Feature: Track Data Center Inventory
Benefit: Make quicker decisions on placement of new equipment
Value: Improve efficiency by consolidating disparate point products into one single source that can be referenced for all infrastructure device planning and management tasks.
Feature: Search and locate within the data center
Benefit: Allows data center operators to find equipment quicker
Value: Quickly determine the optimal location for devices to be placed or moved with intelligent asset placement.
Feature: Visually track configuration of assets
Benefit: Gives an overview of inventory deployed and capacity availability
Value: Match available resources with the device requirements to better calculate the impact on underlying resources.

23. Rack Power Remaining Visualization

24. Server View – Power Connections

25. Questions?