The nlyte® Floor Planner is a graphical tool to enable you to plan and
manage the physical layout of the floors and rooms within your
datacenter.
A powerful graphical tool for planning and managing your datacenter
The nlyte® Floor Planner allows you to drag and drop assets onto the
floor plan and position them to create the precise room layout you
require. Using the nlyte® zoom and measuring tools you can position
assets to within an accuracy of 0.01mm. The floor planner also helps
you manage operational issues within the datacenter such as power
provision, use of space, heat control and air flow.
Layered modelling of your datacenter assets
The nlyte® Floor Planner presents a layered representation of all the
assets on your datacenter floor. You can create individual layers for
each asset category such as cabinets, floor standing servers, power
infrastructure, air conditioning and networks. These can be displayed
together or separately to simplify datacenter planning and issue
resolution. These layers also include a layout layer that holds your
floor plan drawings with static equipment and a grid layer that
provides you with axes alignment guidelines.
Colour coded asset monitoring and capacity reporting
To help your managers identify potential threats and issues, the nlyte®
Floor Planner includes real-time ad hoc capacity reports. As work
continues within your datacenter, nlyte® monitors the different
performance thresholds that apply to each device. If your operations
result in these thresholds being approached or exceeded, nlyte® colour
codes the affected device on the appropriate layer of the report’s
graphical output.
The floor planner reports include:
- Used/available space
- Heat output/available cooling capacity
- Used/available network ports in any given cabinet
Easily track asset relationships and records to help you resolve issues
From the colour coded results of each report you can quickly identify
any jeopardised asset and click on it to drill down into the detail.
This may launch the cabinet planner, from where you can display the
cabinet asset record to understand why thresholds are low, or display
the associated asset record from within the nlyte® Datacenter Module . From each of these asset records you can follow the relationship chain to explore the conditions of any other related asset.
The nlyte® Floor Planner provides you with easy access to all assets in
the relationship chain, from whichever end you choose to start. You no
longer have to rely on a difficult combination of design drawings and
spreadsheets. Instead, nlyte®’s graphical presentation of this
information makes it easy for you to track the asset chain in order to
understand where potential issues exist and how to resolve them.
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