Name: Avocent Data Center Planner
Rating: 7.3 (1 reviews)
Author: Vertiv (formerly Emerson Network Power)

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Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Resume Parsing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

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API Management

Authorization

Cloud Storage

Component Content Management

Data Deduplication

Data Governance

Fraud Detection

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Intranet

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Managed Private Cloud

Managed Public Cloud Infrastructure

Network Performance Monitoring

Output Management

Relational Database Management Systems

Sensitive Data Discovery

Service Virtualization

User Activity Monitoring

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

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Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Data Cleansing

Data Management

Digital Experience Intelligence

Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)

Email Marketing

Location Intelligence

Marketing Automation

Online Reputation Management

Social Media Management

Social Media Publishing

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

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Construction CRM

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Headless eCommerce

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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

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Avocent Data Center Planner, from Vertiv (formerly Emerson Network Power) is software solution providing a visual infrastructure planning and management tool within Vertiv’s strategic framework for data center optimization. Data Center Planner is designed to provide accurate and complete information about device and equipment locations, as well as current capacities and projected growth.

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Infrastructure Capacity Planning Tools help align IT resources with their actual usage patterns and business priorities to optimize costs.

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Vertiv (formerly Emerson Network Power)

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Avocent Data Center Planner 2022-03-02 09:38:14

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We used Avocent Data Center Planner to create a virtual map of our data 
center and the cross-connects to all of the equipment. With it, we were 
able to create an inventory of various servers, network devices, 
appliances, etc we had in our data center. This allows us to capacity 
plan where to put new equipment in. It also gives up the available patch
 panel ports in our various racks as well as the available ports on the 
various switches we have in our data center.

Avocent Data Center Planner gave us an overview of our data center without the need to be physically there to perform an audit.
We can visually map out and trace the cross-connect a device or server is using without a need of remote hands to trace the cable.
It provides us the ability to capacity plan our data center. Giving us the ability to see what space is under or over-utilized and formulate a plan to adjust to correct it.

The library of objects we can use in Avocent Data Center Planner needs to be expanded. There are times the server object we need is not available in the library.
A more efficient way to connect objects together. It's way too easy to delete a connection mapping, a dialogue box asking if the connection should be deleted would be nice. I've accidentally deleted a connection before and it's annoying that I need to redo it.
The ability to import diagrams into Avocent Data Center Planner would be nice. We have Visio diagram of racks and to utilize that instead of recreating it would help speed up the build in of a datacenter in the product.

One of the most important features of Avocent Data Center Planner is the visual representation of our entire data center. This gives us a great visual to be able to plan where to set up new equipment.
Another important feature is the mapping of the cross-connects between equipment and cross-connects between racks. With it, we can visualize where things are connected, helping us better troubleshoot things without the need for remote hands to trace connections in the data center.
We have also used Avocent Datacenter to determine how many patch ports are available to each rack as well as ports on the switches on our datacenter. Previously remote hands would be needed to perform an inventory of what is available.
Having one location to view information of our data center is another important feature. Without it, we would have to look at a Visio diagram to determine what devices are in the racks and then an Excel file to view the cross-connects.

A positive ROI on Avocent Data Center Planner allows us to improve our infrastructure planning by giving a visual representation of our data center so we can see where we can set up new equipment in the future.
Another positive ROI is, we can visualize wherein our data center we are either over-utilized or underutilized increasing the efficiency of our operations.
A further positive ROI is the complete record of device connections eliminated the need for remote hands to trace patch connections for troubleshooting purposes.
Finally having one place to view information on our data center is also a positive ROI. This has increased our operations' ability to manage our data center.
A negative ROI is the amount of time required to set up Avocent Data Center Planner. We had to start from scratch and recreate the Visio diagrams we already had.

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Avocent Data Center Planner

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