Vertiv™ Power Insight Integration

with VMware vSphere

Manage Power Infrastructure at Data Centers and Edge Sites More Easily

Benefits

Vertiv™ Power Insight provides easy

integration into VMware’s vSphere
management platform, enabling IT
teams to:

y Improve their visibility into

power resources supporting
mission-critical applications

y Work more efficiently with

fewer logins and centralized
management capabilities

y Use centralized visibility

and data to optimize the
performance of power resources
Organizations use Vertiv Power Insight to oversee the power solutions that support their
y Ensure the high availability of distributed infrastructure. This web-based software provides a single interface to monitor
physical and virtual servers up to 100 Vertiv™ uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) and rack power distribution
y Monitor and support up to
units (rPDUs) and shut down critical computing resources.
100 Vertiv™ UPS and rPDU Vertiv Power Insight provides a fully certified, seamless integration with the VMware
solutions from a single console vSphere management platform (formerly known as VMware vCenter). vSphere also
y Execute controlled shutdowns integrates with the VMware ESXi bare metal hypervisor. As a result, IT teams now
of compute when a critical have a single pane of glass to manage Vertiv UPSs and rPDUs directly from their
event occurs vSphere application.

y Automatically execute simple or As an out-of-the-box solution, Vertiv Power Insight enables teams to get right to work,
complex shutdown processes connecting and controlling devices. Users can preconfigure Vertiv Power Insight and
vSphere plugin to trigger actions based on Vertiv UPS and rPDU conditions and alarms,
y Reduce mean time to recovery using resource information already in the system. By so doing, IT teams can architect the
(MTTR), by migrating computing power continuity of both physical and virtual servers at their data centers and edge sites.
workloads to healthy hosts
Vertiv™ Power Insight Integration with VMware vSphere

Overview
The Vertiv™ Power Insight VMware vSphere plugin provides centralized monitoring and management for physical and virtual servers.
By using the plugin, IT teams gain greater visibility into – and control over – up to 100 critical Vertiv power resources, streamlining
operational processes and improving computing availability.

y Seamlessly integrate Vertiv Power y Configure alarms and notifications: y Run scripts for complex processes:
Insight with VMware vSphere: Configure power alarms and Run simple or complex actions using
Download this free UPS software from notifications directly in vSphere, scripts within vSphere. Use automation
Vertiv.com. Get up and running with rather than logging into two systems to streamline responses to critical
centralized UPS monitoring capabilities and handling systems separately. power events. Control power devices
in vSphere within minutes. Vertiv Automate shutdowns, based on key and take critical actions without the
Power Insight passes information conditions for Vertiv UPSs and need for human intervention.
directly to vSphere, providing users rPDUs. Alternatively, configure
with continuous situational awareness advanced shutdowns based on y Trigger virtual machine shutdowns:
of power performance. multiple conditions in Vertiv Power Execute controlled shutdowns of
Insight software, using combination- virtual machines, protecting vital
y View power system status or time-based sequences. business operations from disruption.
and alarms: Use sequenced shutdowns to
Gain a holistic view of Vertiv™ UPS y Associate servers and hosts with extend virtual machine rundown
and rPDU performance across the Vertiv devices: for critical workloads.
distributed infrastructure. Use the Add and connect devices easily
software as a power manager, to view with intelligent power management y Trigger vMotion migrations:
capacity load percentage, output capabilities.. View the power and VMWare vSphere features such as
current, battery percentage charge, physical servers that support virtual Cluster configurations and vSan help
and battery time remaining, using machines, improving accountability. to simplify automated failovers at data
insights to improve power performance. center and edge sites. Vertiv Power
Insight provides critical power
information to VMware vSphere, which
intelligently reacts to determine the
need for failover, while automation
ensures consistency of results.

System Requirements
Hardware Requirements Vertiv™ Power Insight can be installed on a 64-bit machine with minimum system requirements of 8GB memory, 4-core CPU, and 256GB HDD.
The recommended system requirements are 8GB memory, 8-core CPU, and 2TB HDD.
Operating System Requirements Microsoft Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 (32bit and 64bit), Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bit), Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (64bit),
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (64bit), and 2019 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7, 6.9 7.1-7.4 (all-64bit), VMware ESXi 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 (64bit),
VMware 6.7 (and above) required for vCenter Plugin, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 (64bit), Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (64bit).

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