A data center can contain thousands of assets, from servers, storage and network devices to infrastructure support equipment such as Computer Room Air Conditioners, PDUs and UPSs. Keeping track of these assets is an ongoing task faced by data center managers around the world. A Digital Realty Trust survey found that only 26% of data center managers could locate a server that had gone down within minutes. Only 58% could locate the server within 4 hours and 20% required more than a day. The inability to locate equipment in the data center increases the mean time to repair (MTTR) for the equipment and decreases the overall availability.

The ability to manage the IT assets is only part of the solution, however. Comprehensive management of IT equipment at the rack level must consider space, power and cooling. This white paper addresses the state of the systems and related technology currently being used to address rack level management and provides criteria to use in the search for an optimal solution.

Download the white paper here.