Power and cooling innovator APC by Schneider Electric introduced InfraStruxure Management Software Portfolio 6.2 this week. The latest software version includes updates to InfraStruxure Central Monitoring Suite and InfraStruxure Operations Suite. It also introduces integration with VMware vSphere 4.1.
In a press release submitted to Channel Pro-SMB, APC is touting its latest InfraStruxure Operations Suite as offering enhanced network management capabilities, including a new network report.
The new bi-directional integration into VMware vSphere, however, is taking top billing, as it enables customers to locate the physical location of a virtual machine and in the case of power, cooling, or environmental physical infrastructure events. This enables virtual machines to be easily moved from impacted host servers to healthy hosts for uninterrupted uptime and availability.
“By introducing updates to our InfraStruxure Management Software Portfolio, such as linking the physical infrastructure with the virtual environment through the integration with VMware vSphere,” says Soeren Jensen, APC’s vice president of data center software, “we are addressing our customers’ needs for a seamless data center management experience and an overall increase in energy efficiency and decrease in costs.”
Also new to InfraStruxure Operations Suite 6.2 is the one-click configuration and setup of InfraStruxure solutions incorporated in APC’s data center design and configuration tool, InfraStruxure Designer. This feature enables users to automatically import room shape, equipment placement, and power and cooling dependencies from InfraStruxure Designer into InfraStruxure Operations.
