Eaton Intelligent Power Manager Software
Intelligent Power Manager (IPM), Eaton’s disaster avoidance software provides monitoring and management of power equipment in physical or virtual environments to keep IT devices running during a power or environmental event. This innovative software solution ensures system uptime and data integrity by allowing you to remotely monitor, manage and control devices on your network. Choose from three levels of licences: Monitor, Manage and Optimise.
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The Eaton Intelligent Power Manager software (IPM) seamlessly integrates with your power hardware to deliver unmatched business continuity capabilities. By managing all network-connected power infrastructure devices, including UPSs and rack-based power distribution units (ePDUs), it ensures uninterrupted operations during power and environmental events.
IPM offers two editions: the Manager Edition and the Optimise Edition. The Manager Edition is available as a free download for up to 10 power devices, with paid tiers available for larger deployments. The Optimise Edition offers comprehensive capabilities for implementing power management strategies in virtual and hybrid environments, including monitoring, and managing third-party power devices alongside Eaton equipment. Trial licenses are available upon request.
- Automated Business Continuity: Automated business continuity with flexible policies based on physical infrastructure events, such as power and environmental conditions.
- Define and execute sequential load shedding or disaster recovery policies for VMs, vApps, or groups of VMs/vApps directly within IPM.
- Workload Management: Remote and graceful shutdown of servers and select storage devices during power events.
- Prioritise and shed non-critical loads to extend runtime during extended power outages.
- Trigger migration applications like VMware vMotion and Citrix XenMotion to transparently move virtual machines to available servers on the network.
- Failover: Initiate VMware Site Recovery Manager disaster recovery plans during power outages.
- Power Capping: Extend the operation of critical workloads during power outages by limiting server power consumption.
- System Integration: Simplify setup and reduce the learning curve by seamlessly integrating with existing virtual management systems, freeing up time for other critical tasks.
- Remote Agentless Host Management: Save valuable time by remotely shutting down servers without the need for resource-consuming agents that may slow down performance.
- Automated Business Continuity: Automated business continuity with flexible policies based on physical infrastructure events, such as power and environmental conditions.
- Define and execute sequential load shedding or disaster recovery policies for VMs, vApps, or groups of VMs/vApps directly within IPM.
- Workload Management: Remote and graceful shutdown of servers and select storage devices during power events.
- Prioritise and shed non-critical loads to extend runtime during extended power outages.
- Trigger migration applications like VMware vMotion and Citrix XenMotion to transparently move virtual machines to available servers on the network.
- Failover: Initiate VMware Site Recovery Manager disaster recovery plans during power outages.
- Power Capping: Extend the operation of critical workloads during power outages by limiting server power consumption.
- System Integration: Simplify setup and reduce the learning curve by seamlessly integrating with existing virtual management systems, freeing up time for other critical tasks.
- Remote Agentless Host Management: Save valuable time by remotely shutting down servers without the need for resource-consuming agents that may slow down performance.
FAQs
Are your UPS' reliable?
UPS’ are very reliable when used in accordance with the manufacturers instructions. Like many electronic devices, they can be easily mistreated.
How do UPS' work?
UPS’ work by preventing interruption of Power to the critical load. This is usually happens by providing a secondary source of energy – like a battery – to run your critical load. There are a handful of different methods for UPS operation, that deliver somewhat different results.
How do UPS' work in a data centre?
Data Centres use a large Centralised UPS array, backed up by generators as well as the grid, to keep power available to the data centre uses for many hours in circumstances when grid power has failed.
What UPS do I need?
The UPS you will need will absolutely be defined by what your load is. A PC will need a different size UPS to a refrigerator, or a variable speed drive. That’s because the loads are very different in nature.
Where is UPS used?
A UPS is expected to be used in any clean, dust Free, temperature and humidity controlled location. Using a UPS outdoors, or in a vehicle or on a ship or an oil rig requires specialist UPS systems.
Which UPS is best for home?
If you are using your UPS in a major city home, and for typical home IT equipment, like PC’s, TV’s and modems, a ‘line interactive’ UPS is all that is generally required. In areas where your power supply is weak or poor quality, or your supported equipment is more critical in nature – like a CPAP machine or humidicrib, it is best to get specialist advice.
Which UPS battery is best?
UPS batteries are divided generally into 2 types. High rate batteries and non high rate batteries. High rate batteries can support a large burst of energy for short periods of time – like 30 minutes, but have a comparatively short service life. Non high rate batteries are designed for long slow discharges, and can often support equipment for many hours, and will last near double the lifespan of high rate batteries. Battery type and sizing is complex, best to seek professional advice here.
Which UPS is best for Computer or Gaming PC?
The best type of UPS is best for every type of application because of the way it’s expected to work. These are double conversion UPS’s, sometimes called true on line UPS’s. They work very differently to more economical UPS’s, are more complex, more reliable, more powerful and significantly more expensive that the low cost UPS’s. If ‘best’ means highest reliability and best quality power output with fewest power breaks to you, get Double Conversion.
Why is UPS used?
A UPS is used solely to prevent or limit interruption of mains power to critical loads. Other add on functions like surge protection, alarms and communications and remote control of servers is not a core UPS function.
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