Eaton Intelligent Power Manager power management

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) power management software

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) software is a system whose purpose is to manage power. It provides the tools needed to monitor and control power devices in physical and virtual environments. Eaton Intelligent Power Manager makes it easy to define business continuity strategies to keep IT devices ready to operate during events affecting the power supply or the environment. This innovative solution ensures system availability and data integrity by enabling remote power management and control of devices on the network.

Eaton software features Intelligent Power Manager:

Remotely monitor and control multiple devices on the network from a single interface.
Suspend non-critical VMs, consolidate critical VMs, shut down unused servers and extend battery life.
Moving a virtual machine or gently shutting down the system in the event of a prolonged power outage.
Automate the avoidance of major failures using planned migration applications such as VMware Site Recovery Manager and Microsoft Live Migration.
Integration with VMware vRealize Operations Manager using Eaton's Infrastructure Management Suite to manage the health, risk and performance of power equipment and control environmental conditions .
Set limits on the server's power consumption (to run on battery power longer) using UCS management software.
Monitor Eaton Intelligent Power Manager integration with leading IT platforms.

IPM power management

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) offers two versions - Manage Edition and Optimize Edition.
Manage Edition provides free downloads of up to 10 devices. Above 10 nodes, licenses are chargeable.
Optimize Edition - premium offering - provides the most complete set of capabilities for implementing power management strategies in virtualized and hybrid environments, including the ability to monitor and manage third-party power devices in addition to Eaton equipment.

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Eaton integrates with virtualization platforms

Power management, within a virtual platform, is key to increasing the availability time and reliability of IT applications.

Power management in virtual environments

Eaton's Intelligent Power software simplifies power management in virtual environments. It is incorporated into leading virtual machine management systems, including VMware's vCentre and XenCenter, and integrates power management functions so that all UPSs and ePDUs in a virtual network, along with information about the network, physical servers and storage systems, can be viewed in the same application.

Ensure long uptime, data integrity and business continuity

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager software helps IT professionals achieve peace of mind by incorporating business continuity infrastructure and disaster recovery policies, including sequential load reduction, data replication, real-time migration of VMs to backup or cloud locations, and secure shutdown of VMs in the event of power and environmental events. This integration makes Eaton power appliances an ideal power infrastructure solution for virtual and cloud-based IT applications, including converged and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions from NetApp, EMC, SimpliVity and other vendors.