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July 2, 2012
If you’re tasked with improving data center capacity utilization and uptime, then you need a connectivity management plan. But first, what is connectivity management and why is it important? Connectivity management encompasses two areas: full power chain and network connection management. Consider this – a dynamic data center will have frequent adds, moves and changes. Each of these actions in a high density environment requires you to answer the following questions – What is the impact on my power chain? Do I have available power and network connection capacity? Full power chain and network connection management provides fast, accurate answers to these and other questions which greatly reduces time and increases the reliability of making changes in the data center. It budgets power the same way an electrical engineer would, only the calculations are done in real time by the system before you make the change. The benefits are clear – connectivity management can help save you from over loading and faulting a branch circuit and can help find stranded capacity, which in the long run may prevent you from spending millions of dollars to build a new facility.
June 30, 2012
Until now, Raritan’s support for running the Flexera License Server Manager with the virtual CommandCenter Secure Gateway was limited to physical, standalone hosts. That has now changed. A new set of files has been posted on the CommandCenter Secure Gateway support site, which enables CC-SG virtual appliance customers to install the Flexera License Manager on a VMware virtual server.
What’s changed? A new Raritan Vendor Daemon (version 2.0) is provided in the License Manager zipped file. It allows for installation on both physical and virtual hosts. The link is located in the “Other Support Files” section of the CC-SG support page.
The new License Manager is backward compatible with virtual CC’s running versions 5.0.5, 5.1.0, and 5.2.0.
To take advantage of this enhancement, customers do not need to upgrade their virtual CC-SG software. However, migration from a physical host to a virtual host requires re-licensing and installation of new license file(s). This is because the virtual machine will have a different UUID than the physical server. Customers that are making this change will need to contact Tech Support and request to have their CC-SG licenses reset in the Raritan licensing portal. They will then be able to generate new licenses using the new UUID.
If not migrating from a physical host to a virtual host, existing customers need to take no action.
June 27, 2012
In previous blog entries, we’ve seen that a truly 100% homogeneous data center environment is far from the norm. Rare is the data center that relies on a single server vendor or server type. As a result, multiple management tools are often used, which can be a nightmare in its own right. Managing a bunch of management tools seems a little redundant.
But maybe you are a one-stop-shop. Perhaps you’ve configured all your Dell blade servers for easy management access via DRAC. You’re on easy street, right? Or you’ve virtualized. You’re the resident VMware hero and you’re saving more money on hardware and power than you originally thought possible. But you have all those DRAC connections on a secondary LAN. What if you lose access? Or you find yourself unable to restart a virtual machine through vCenter? What then?
James Cerwinski
June 22, 2012
Many dcTrack customers have expressed a desire to elevate dcTrack’s position within their operations by integrating dcTrack with their Remedy CMDB and change ticket system.
dcTrack has the open API for such an integration and is a member of the BMC Software Technology Alliance Program.
Pinebreeze Technologies Inc. has integrated BMC Remedy with dcTrack
“The BMC Remedy connector enables Remedy change tickets to electronically flow into dcTrack to reduce human error and ensure all changes are captured in dcTrack”
Your options are not limited to BMC.
Minder Singh
June 21, 2012
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