User Guide

Product Overview
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Features and Benefits
Avocent® Data Center Planner is an enterprise class application designed to enable management of server room
and data center physical infrastructures.
With Data Center Planner, information technology managers can gain quick and valuable insight into space, power,
heat, weight and network connectivity consideration and capacity.
At the heart of this application is a powerful design tool used to model the data center down to the physical device
and rack levels. Using the comprehensive Device Library, a data center manager can quickly design or modify an
existing floor-mounted device using user interface drag-and-drop operations.
Global view allows you to view individual or multiple data center locations on a visual map along with their
properties and capacity visualization.
Plan view enables you to visualize placement of racks and other floor-mounted assets and provides capacity
visualization. Using tab navigation, you can open two plans simultaneously.
Rack view allows you to view the front and back of the rack design with a detailed level of clarity and reliability.
This view also provides rack properties and capacity visualization.
Asset view allows you to view a single asset. This view also provides asset properties and capacity visualization.
Connection view allows you to create cable-based connections between assets.
Templates can be created for future or repeated use.
Inventory has a repository for placed and unplaced assets.
Capacity Search allows you to search for assets by power, heat, weight, space and user-defined property and value
for a selected plan or across all plans.
Planning allows you to create future changes to your data center. Changes are organized into projects by due date
and contain groups of tasks that will be executed together. You can select projects to see the effect of changes on
the currently selected floor plans.
Project history allows you to view changes to the data center over time.
Attributes
The software attributes allow for easy start-up and integration of data center management.
• Data center floor design and visualization.
• Supports floor tile system and grid detail.
• Visualization and summary data provided at five levels of detail: power, space, weight, heat and networking.