Eaton's presentation at SpiceWorld London 2012

1. Managing the Power Infrastructure
within your Virtualized Environments
SpiceWorld London – 25 May 2012
Matthieu Jaeger

3. Agenda
• EATON Monitoring tool: Intelligent Power Manager
• Virtualization (VM, VA, HA, hypervisors, manager..)
• Eaton solutions for virtual infrastructure
• Live demo
• EATON ePDU new features

4. Why Power Management Software?
• Without communication, a UPS will perform its tasks …
but your IT system could still be at risk:
– If you are not warned of the remaining battery time in case of an extended power failure,
– Or if the UPS gets overloaded for too long.
• Communication can:
– Provide real time notification of the UPS status …
– And let you assign automatic actions to perform in case of power event.
– Complete power sequences:
• Application and Operating system shutdown after a preset time on battery backup
• UPS shutdown
• UPS reboot on power restoration after a preset time
• Server & operating system and application reboot
Critical for systems running unattended at night!

5. Intelligent Power® Manager
EATON supervision and management software for UPS, ePDU &
shutdown applications
Shutdown agent: IPP
UPS
ePDU

6. What you should look for in a power management software
• Monitor and manage power
devices over the entire network
• Automated Alerts
• Auto discovery
• Mass upgrade
• Mass configuration
• Virtualization Centric
• Asset management
• Useful Information
• Definable views
• Vendor Neutral See all devices, even globally, from any
PC on the network

7. Today, Virtualization is a reality!
• Virtualization drives IT industry as
the majority of new server
installations are now virtualized

8. What is virtualization?
Physical world Virtualized world
Traditional x86 Architecture Virtualization:
• Single OS image per machine • Separation of OS and hardware
• Software and hardware tightly • OS and application contained in single
coupled file
• Multiple applications often conflict • Applications are isolated from one
• Underutilized resources
another
• Hardware independence and flexibility
These images are courtesy of VMware.

9. UPS agent installed into the virtual environment
Multi-host site Single-host site
•Approach:
•Integrate UPS agent with Hypervisor (single host) or central management server (multi-host)
•Report power conditions to single location. Hypervisor/system manager controls VMs
•No UPS s/w agent installed on VMs
These images are courtesy of VMware.

10. How IPP is protecting the ESXi server?
When shutdown criterias are reached:
• VMs will gracefully shutdown
• ESXi server will shutdown

11. Redundancy configuration

12. Virtual Appliance : VA
• A virtual appliance is a pre-integrated, self contained system that is made by
combining a software application (e.g., server software) with just enough
operating system for it to run optimally on industry standard hardware or a
virtual machine

13. Protecting multiple ESXi ’s servers
Step 1: Download & deploy IPM
Step 2: Link IPM to vCenter
Step 3: scan for devices and
virtual nodes
Step 4: Set IPM with shutdown
criterias and vMotion

14. Features from the plug-in
• Power event notifications are sent to the Alarms tab on
the vCenter dashboard (power failure)

15. HA : High Availability feature
• Provides automated restart within
minutes for all applications in the
event of hardware or operating
system failures.
• Decrease downtime and improve
reliability with business continuity

16. Migrate – avoid service downtime
Moves applications from server or site facing imminent power disruption to
another one with good power.
Performs graceful shutdown of the hypervisor and powers down the physical
server.

17. Citrix Xen
Main features:
• Compatible HA
• IPM Integration into
XenCenter
• Hypervisor shutdown remotely
via IPM

18. HyperV
Main features:
• Agent IPP on each hypervisor
• IPM on SCVMM

19. Mixed virtual environment
IPM can managed multiple
virtual environment

20. Demo…

21. IPM triggers vMotion - VMware

22. Managed ePDUs: what’s new?
Main features:
• individual or group outlet monitoring (on/off)
• Power consumption per outlet / group (Volt, Amps; Watts)
• Monitoring Temperature & Humidity (sensor)
Let’s talk about the new features!

23. Create and manage a group of outlets
Create and set a group:
• John Smith is a group
with outlets A6 + B4
Give access to a group:
• Login as ‘John Smith’

24. Power Schedule – Control outlets / groups automatically
Set a power schedule for a
specific group:
• John Smith’s group will
swith off at 8pm and
switch back on at 7am
everyday

25. Two more things…
• ePDU Energy Wise Compliant (Cisco)
• ePDU is fully integrated into Intelligent Power
Management (Mass config, Mass
upgrade…)

26. Thank you! Any questions?!