The N(i)2 Facility Resource Design includes all tools necessary to design data center facilities resulting in the most efficient use of power, cooling and space. In summary, it enables to:
Assist
in configuration design through smart racks, gridded floor plans, power sources, power transformers
Optimize
space, heat, and power consumption by leveraging contextual views for floor plans, racks, chassis
Reduce
errors through design tools empowered by engineering and business rules
Accelerate
infrastructure design by leveraging configuration models stored as templates
Optimize
infrastructure design through alternate “What-if” scenarios
The N(i)2 Facility Resource Design helps manage everything from floor plans and rack capacity, to card positioning in chassis, to chassis in racks. It also offers management of ports, devices and physical elements such as power and cooling. It generates reports on data center environmental characteristics such as power load and weight.
It allows the design of physical connections between devices. It conveys the information required to assess how resources connected to the network could be affected by problems or change. It provides tools to design hardware assets while leveraging business rules to organize them based on their location. It allows querying the N(i)² CMS for hardware from a location or containership perspective. It also includes functions to manipulate maps and other representation views for a better understanding of asset positioning, as well as schematically and spatially search for them.
Focused on IP design including subnets, the N(i)2 Facility Resource Design is the ideal tool for modeling an organization’s Layer 3 network. This module uses pre-built engineering rules to facilitate the design of subnets and to handle IP addressing.
Finally, this module delivers powerful outside-plant connectivity modeling capability. Whether users are constructing conduits between a vast array of offices spanning a continent, or deploying trunk cables between buildings in a campus environment, the spatially enabled environment offered by N(i)² can help IT infrastructure managers optimize their design and reduce risk related to distance, capacity, and cost.
