AssetGen Planner is designed to support the complex planning and change analysis needed in modern data centres. It links into the AssetGen Connect and SysMap databases covering physical infrastructure and system mapping, providing a powerful, user driven, system supporting the needs of planning or operational decisions. It can reduce many days of work by many individuals into a few seconds, vital when faced with increasing workloads, major faults or urgent needs.

AssetGen Planner helps with data centre planning activities such as:

• Automatically creating Visio diagrams showing network, storage, power and other topologies.
• Rapidly identifying devices affected by changes in physical infrastructure
• Analysing the service impact of multiple changes to equipment
• Generating Visio diagrams of network and/or power topologies, top down floorplans and cabinet layouts
• Quickly finding available capacity and resources for provisioning new equipment

The aim is to reduce the amount of manual effort analysing, planning and communicating change

Example 1. Identifying the services impact of a power down to a room or power distribution unit

Typically this will involve creating an inventory of critical devices, assessing those devices also connected to network or storage devices and then identifying the services impacted by each. AssetGen Planner takes a few

seconds.

Example 2. Four new blade servers need to be housed in the data centre

They each take up 16U of cabinet height, require 24 LAN and 10 SAN connections (with diverse routing), plus 3kw of power. It can take many hours or days to identify suitable cabinets that are already pre-provisioned, have diverse cabling routes, available space and are within the limits for the cooling capability of the local zone.

Example 3. Up to date rack diagrams are required of all server racks for inventory verification

Rather than manually drawing rack diagrams, AssetGen Planner will generate Visio diagrams as required using filters for server, network or cabling cabinets. Devices and power strips will be positioned automatically in racks, with configuration data embedded such as maintenance data, owners, IP address etc. For more device detail or to re-validate the current data, hyperlinks to AssetGen Connect and SysMap are automatically inserted.

Buying AssetGen Planner

AssetGen Planner is licenced per desktop user and requires a standard MS platform such as XP or Vista. It assumes that AssetGen Connect and/or AssetGen SysMap are already installed for Planner to access. Contact us with your requirements and we'll be glad to provide a specific quotation.

AssetGen Planner Product Datasheet and FAQ

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White papers [Change impact analysis in data centres] [Data Centre Visualisation with Visio 2007]

AssetGen Planner Product Demonstration

We are able to provide a live web-based AssetGen Planner demonstration at short notice. To arrange a live demonstration - contact Square Mile on 0870 950 4651 or please email us

AssetGen Planner information

More product details, white papers and supporting information are at www.AssetGen.com