Intel® Data Center Manager

Intel® Data Center Manager (Intel® DCM) SDK provides power and thermal monitoring and management for servers, racks and groups of servers in data centers. Management Console Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) can integrate Intel® DCM into their console or command-line applications and provide high value power management features to IT organizations.

IT organizations facing power and cooling challenges can benefit from:

• Increased rack density within space, power and cooling constraints through fine-grained power control
• Reduced capital costs by right-sizing power and cooling infrastructure based on actual power consumption trends
• Reduced operations costs by eliminating worst-case head-room build-up during rack power provisioning; power is provisioned to servers based on workload service level agreements

Intel® DCM features include:

• Built-in policy based intelligent heuristics engine that can maintain group power capping while dynamically adapting to changing server loads and minimizing performance impact of workloads
• Uses Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager for node power and thermal management
• Designed as an SDK to integrate into existing management software products by means of a web service application programming interface (WSDL API)