Visualize, model and manage your complex datacenter environmentThe nlyte® datacenter management solution will empower your organization to gain transparency of all Datacenter assets, both physical and virtual; complete Relationship Mapping and inbuilt automated intelligence, providing capacity optimization and Best Practice Validation, to ensure that your datacenter environment is operated at maximum efficiency and utilization.
The nlyte® manages configuration and capacity of the entire datacenter, providing you with a detailed inventory, a relationship-mapping engine and advanced automated functionality. Core to the datacenter module is the centralized repository of all IT assets, with full lifecycle management and optimization intelligence.
The nlyte® Datacenter Module will provide you with detailed asset definition and intelligent management functionality. Each 'asset type' record includes standard information common to all assets, as well as information relating to each individual piece of equipment. Defined asset types automatically show links to other entities within the Organization Module, which allows the mapping of relationships.
nlyte® tracks and maps Assets and Relationships; servers, cabinets, infrastructure, networks and peripherals
It is important that the data managed within nlyte® is easy to share with third party Datacenter management applications. nlyte® has been designed to sit within a federated CMDB environment - where openness, robustness, and standardization are key.
nlyte® is ready to form part of any existing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) out-of-the-box. nlyte® provides web services methods to achieve bi-directional data integration providing simple access to core nlyte® data. As shown in the diagram below. Full documentation is provided and technical support is available as arranged.
The nlyte® system is built on industry standard technologies such as Microsoft .Net and SQL Server 2005 providing a standard architecture to fit the integration requirements of any organization.
Integration to the nlyte® system is usually achieved through the use of the standard set of “Application Programming Interface (API’s)” providing a flexible interface for two-way data transport.
Taking into consideration the identification and de-commissioning of redundant systems and servers in the enterprise datacenter, the next logical step is to place a value upon the savings in relation to those assets.
In summary, savings of €788.40 and 6.16 tons of CO2 can be made for every server that nlyte® identifies as redundant or suitable for virtualisation.
The nlyte® Workflow Module enables you to undertake processes within the datacenter in a controlled way and in such a manner that processes can easily be replicated in future, ensuring transparency for the client and management.
You can also manage progress of each task, to find out who is working on the request and to establish what stage of the workflow process has been reached at any given point. It is also possible to ascertain who is responsible for an asset or service running on a particular asset and how to contact that person in a service interruption situation.
nlyte® helps to Manage SLAs by notifying service managers of escalated issues.
Planned and unplanned downtime in your datacenter is estimated to cost five or six figures per hour and that’s before you begin to consider the affect it will have on your reputation as an organization.
nlyte® provides rapid identification and isolation of the systems and business applications affected by an outage in addition to the support groups and personnel needed to resolve the issue. It automatically measures the impact from one system throughout a whole building, thereby removing the communication lag from the overall downtime. nlyte® allows for diversity analysis, so that issues can be identified and resolved to minimise the potential for infrastructure downtime in the future.
Organizations need to be able to monitor energy and equipment usage levels and cross charge departments within an organization for that usage. Within nlyte®, the Chargeback Report attributes the costs of datacenter operation across the defined business groups within your organization. nlyte® refers to the utilization figures for power, cooling and equipment space to provide a total cost of datacenter service provision to each business group.
By streamlining processes within nlyte® and facilitating easy transfer of information from staff members to a central system, better cross departmental communication can be achieved, by using nlyte® Workflow Module . All teams work on one centralized repository which results in greater inter-departmental visibility of activity and staff can see if and where there is potential impact on a particular task. A centralized approach also reduces the duplication of data being recorded in disperate systems.
