AAMM Assessment:
Centric Solutions offers AAMM (Automation, Auto-Discovery, Monitoring, and Modeling) assessment services and solutions to assist data center personnel in obtaining optimal performance within the data center. These include the critical management areas of power, cooling, greening, and asset management. In conjunction with a site survey or installation of the physical layer cabling infrastructure, Centric Solutions personnel will perform an AAMM evaluation to provide a complete up-to-date assessment of the entire physical layer infrastructure. A single vendor can now provide cabling, power, cooling, greening, and asset management recommendations and solutions.
AAMM is the pathway to a premium position of efficiency, cost containment, infrastructure optimization, and improved risk management, ensuring higher overall enterprise performance. The corner-stone of any successful organization is information. Auto-generated, easily transferrable knowledge that is timely and comprehensive would be a welcome aid to the gathering of the information. Today's data center managers have a distinct advantage in affordable, readily available products. These include software and hardware solutions to analyze, monitor, and generate short and long term data, leading to an extremely accurate and timely pro-active enterprise management position.
The use of modeling software can create a graphical representation of a virtual pre-modeled environment (based on the layout of the infrastructure, hardware, and cabinets), identify any hot spots, pinpoint energy usage, and assist in capacity planning.
The benefits of utilizing modeling software include increased energy efficiencies, financial savings, the new found ability to analyze and evaluate hardware heat production, and the generation of cooling requirements (previously only discovered after the hardware was purchased and installed). AAMM provides the ability to design out problems in advance of implementation.
Utilizing the advanced monitoring methodology of AAMM in the areas of
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Site Surveys:
Centric Solutions' services are focused around efficient data center operations. Data center managers understand the delivery of best of breed, uniquely designed, value added products for the infrastructure is only part of what makes an organization top tier.
The integration of components, documentation, operational procedures, change management procedures, and problem escalation procedures must all come together in a compatible, cohesive package.
To that end, Centric Solutions' services are performed by professionals who understand both the requirements of critical environments, and the Centric Solutions' Code of Quality and Character. A site survey is the first step to a successful installation and cut over.
Information collected during a site survey includes:
Installations:
The integration of components, documentation, operational procedures, change management procedures, and problem escalation procedures must all come together in a compatible, cohesive package.
Centric Solutions does not sub-contract any services.
The proper installation of a copper and/or optical infrastructure is key to:
Inferior Infrastructure Components (IIC) assessment:
A list of IIC objects, including:
When this condition occurs, channels will attempt resynchronizations. Continued resyncing cycles will cause the transmitter and receiver to down shift to slower speeds.
There is often no indication that the expensive high speed interfaces are not running at full potential.
An IIC assessment is a non intrusive method to collect:
Centric Solutions offers AAMM (Automation, Auto-Discovery, Monitoring, and Modeling) assessment services and solutions to assist data center personnel in obtaining optimal performance within the data center. These include the critical management areas of power, cooling, greening, and asset management. In conjunction with a site survey or installation of the physical layer cabling infrastructure, Centric Solutions personnel will perform an AAMM evaluation to provide a complete up-to-date assessment of the entire physical layer infrastructure. A single vendor can now provide cabling, power, cooling, greening, and asset management recommendations and solutions.
AAMM is the pathway to a premium position of efficiency, cost containment, infrastructure optimization, and improved risk management, ensuring higher overall enterprise performance. The corner-stone of any successful organization is information. Auto-generated, easily transferrable knowledge that is timely and comprehensive would be a welcome aid to the gathering of the information. Today's data center managers have a distinct advantage in affordable, readily available products. These include software and hardware solutions to analyze, monitor, and generate short and long term data, leading to an extremely accurate and timely pro-active enterprise management position.
The use of modeling software can create a graphical representation of a virtual pre-modeled environment (based on the layout of the infrastructure, hardware, and cabinets), identify any hot spots, pinpoint energy usage, and assist in capacity planning.
The benefits of utilizing modeling software include increased energy efficiencies, financial savings, the new found ability to analyze and evaluate hardware heat production, and the generation of cooling requirements (previously only discovered after the hardware was purchased and installed). AAMM provides the ability to design out problems in advance of implementation.
Utilizing the advanced monitoring methodology of AAMM in the areas of
- RFID capabilities
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Power surges
- Equipment power usage
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Site Surveys:
Centric Solutions' services are focused around efficient data center operations. Data center managers understand the delivery of best of breed, uniquely designed, value added products for the infrastructure is only part of what makes an organization top tier.
The integration of components, documentation, operational procedures, change management procedures, and problem escalation procedures must all come together in a compatible, cohesive package.
To that end, Centric Solutions' services are performed by professionals who understand both the requirements of critical environments, and the Centric Solutions' Code of Quality and Character. A site survey is the first step to a successful installation and cut over.
Information collected during a site survey includes:
- Long and short term goals
- The type and location of equipment to be installed & connected
- Capacities
- Distances
- Time frames
- Operational procedures
- Floor plan drawings
- Documentation requirements
- Topology recommendations
- Capacities and options
- Main network point of administration
- Zone cabinet locations & capacities
- Central cabinet locations and capacities
- Conveyance capacities and routing
- Trunk cable type
- Lengths and break out requirements
- Jumper cable counts and length requirements
- Ribbon array configurations
- Fiber optic glass grade recommendations
- Determination of asset management options
Installations:
The integration of components, documentation, operational procedures, change management procedures, and problem escalation procedures must all come together in a compatible, cohesive package.
Centric Solutions does not sub-contract any services.
The proper installation of a copper and/or optical infrastructure is key to:
- Efficient operation
- Maintainability
- Lifetime upgradability
- An inventory of every system component
- The proper location and installation of:
- Cabinets
- Conveyance
- Patch panels
- Trunk cables
- Jumpers
- Labeling and verification of components
- Cable dressing and organization
- Testing and certification of every path in both directions, at multiple frequencies
- Providing "as built" documentation
Inferior Infrastructure Components (IIC) assessment:
A list of IIC objects, including:
- Jumpers
- Trunk cables
- Connectors
- Couplers
When this condition occurs, channels will attempt resynchronizations. Continued resyncing cycles will cause the transmitter and receiver to down shift to slower speeds.
There is often no indication that the expensive high speed interfaces are not running at full potential.
An IIC assessment is a non intrusive method to collect:
- Processor interface data
- Director interface data
- Unit interface data
- A connectivity map to ensure the system is operating at full potential