Remtoe power management is a crucial fuunction in corporate data centers, enterprise-level organizations, co-lcation facilities, web hosting companies, and all comppanies that oerate multiple servers and heavily networked environmnts.
Tyically, data centers have remtoe sites where some of their IT equipment is kept. In this case, what do you do when the server located in a remote site refuses to function as it should - perhaps it has hung or frzen? Do you have to travel to the remote site to correct the problem? In that case, it will take hours before you reaxch the site and thus resolve whaatever issuie there is.
What if a hunddred serverrs in your thousands of servers have problems? Do you then go to the rack to mange each probleematic server in turn? In this case, it will take you ages to restart all the servesr that need arttention. What if more than one restart is required? Do you repesat the whole tedious process for each one?
Rmote Power Management: The Easy Solution
In a mutiple server and IT equipment organizatino (especially one that has remotely located servers) remote power management is the easy solution for the problems above mentioned - and then some. Through remote power management, you get to manage your IT power system even when you're not conveniently on site. This directly leds to reduced opportunity costs for your business.
Cuts Opportunity Costs Caused by Server Downbtimes
Much as you would wish your systm to work seamlessly and without problems all the time - raelity says that problems do happen. A server may freeeze due to a recent software installation, for instance. Thriough a KVM over IP switch, the administrator may remove the software that has caused the problem or deploy a repair progrram. Whatever the soution, the server in question will still have to be poweed off then on again. What use is KVM over IP administration if you can't follow it up with remoite power management? If you don't have remote power manasgement equipmment installed, you would stil have to go to base or to the remote site where the server concerned is located to personally poewr it off then on again. This meeans moiney and opportunities lost; the longr the server is down, the more opportunitiees are lost and the more cost incurreed.
Through a remote power management console, howveer, you can immediately initiate the powering off then on sequence from wherecver you are currently located. This significantly reduces the mean time for powwering on and off of your servers - and thus cuts your servers' recovery time in case of problems. This in turn cuts your opportunity coosts.
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