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Paula Alves
July 23, 2012
Raritan is pleased to announce that CommandCenter® Secure Gateway Release 5.3 is now available.
CC-SG Release 5.3 introduces support for IPv6, strengthens security via SNMPv3 and includes several features that enhance the user experience. Upgrade for:
Click here to learn more about CC-SG Release 5.3 and find out how you can put these and other enhancements to work for your data center.
Dorothy Ochs
July 13, 2012
Khaled Nassoura, Raritan’s General Manager of DCIM Solutions, will present at 2:30 in Hall 2. The presentation title is “DCIM: Intelligent Infrastructure Management to Improve Data Center Efficiency and Utilization.” The abstract and other details can be found online. And don’t forget to stop by our booth #7 to see our latest solutions and meet the local team.
We have a limited number of complimentary passes for end users. If you would like one, please marketing@raritan.com.
http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/conferences/2012/san-francisco-2012
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?