Active Energy Manager

IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™, the cornerstone of IBM's energy-efficient technologies and services, helps organisations effectively monitor and manage power and thermal usage of its IT environment. Active Energy Manager provides IT and Data Centre managers with a single view of actual energy usage across systems, and facilities, within the data Centre. organisations can utilise real-time, and historic, data to initiate actions improving resource utilisation, availability, and service; while reducing energy consumption and cost.

Active Energy Manager measures, monitors, and manages the energy and thermal components of IBM systems enabling a cross-platform management solution, simplifying energy management of IBM servers, storage and networking equipment. In addition, Active Energy Manager extends the scope of energy management to include non-IBM systems, facility providers, facility management applications, PDUs, and equipment supporting the IPv6 protocol. Integration with a wide range of systems and facility provider platforms, and Tivoli enterprise solutions as IBM Tivoli Monitoring (US), enables organisations to accurately understand the impact of the power and cooling infrastructure on servers, storage, and networking equipment. The depth and breadth of Active Energy Manager enables IT and Data Centre managers to effectively manage server operations, while ensuring adherence with energy policies, and constraints. With IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, organisations can take steps to reduce energy costs, optimise resource efficiency, and improve service.

Benefits

IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager increases energy efficiency and reduces costs by:

Providing a single view across multiple platforms including - IBM servers and storage, non-IBM systems, facility providers, facility management applications, PDUs, and equipment supporting the IPv6 protocol – reducing energy management tools and complexity
Simplifying energy management for IBM servers and storage, providing a single, cross-platform view of energy consumption, to aid power consumption understanding, decision making, and actions
Controlling power, and limiting power consumption, with tools providing power capping, power savings, power and thermal trending, and group capping
Providing real-time information on energy usage, giving administrators insight needed to reduce power consumption
Integrating with a wide range of facility provider platforms for monitoring power and cooling infrastructure, to understand impact on servers, storage and network equipment
Integrating seamlessly with IBM Systems Director management platform, and with higher-level management platforms as Tivoli, to provide centralised, unified management capabilities

Features

Monitoring functions include power trending, thermal trending, IBM and non-IBM PDU support, support for facility providers, and energy and environment thresholds
Management functions include power capping and power savings modes
Enhanced facility provider support to enable a more complete view of energy consumption within the data centre
Monitoring of energy and environment data from a wide variety of PDUs, meters and sensors
Monitoring of power and cooling via integration with a wide variety of infrastructure vendors
Monitoring of equipment via an IPv6 connection
Create relationships from systems to cooling and power units in data Centres so power and cooling topologies can now be viewed

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Requirements:

Active Energy Manager is included with IBM Systems Director Editions, or available separately as a plug-in option for IBM Systems Director. Active Energy Manager 4.3.1 requires IBM Systems Director 6.2.1. If the product is installed on an older version of IBM Systems Director, you will be prompted to perform an upgrade before accessing full functionality. Consult the Installation and User's Guide (PDF, 545KB) for full plug-in requirements.

Get a 60-day trial of Active Energy Manager

The latest version of Active Energy Manager is available for download via this site. Take advantage of the 60 day trial opportunity to see for yourself how this solution will enable you to measure, monitor and manage the energy components built into IBM Systems enabling a cross-platform management solution. Active Energy Manager extends the scope of energy management to include facility providers to enable a more complete view of energy consumption within the data centre. For continued use of IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager management functions beyond the 60-day trial, the offering must be purchased.

Try it free for 60 days (US)