The cost savings generated by iTRACS DCIM in terms of reduced power consumption can quickly pay for the software. This presentation describes five additional ways to extend its value. www.commscope.com

1. Five Ways to Boost Capacity,
Efficiency and Availability
with iTRACS DCIM
The cost savings generated by
iTRACS®
DCIM in terms of
reduced power consumption
can quickly help pay for
the software. Here are five
additional ways to extend
its value.

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Eliminate Ghost Servers
to Free Up Rack Space:
In many data centers, as many as 15 to 20 percent of the
servers are either vastly underutilized or literally unused.
These “ghost servers” don’t run any useful applications,
yet they drain power and needlessly consume rack space
and other resources. iTRACS lets you quickly locate and
eliminate ghost servers. Simply search for business unit,
CPU utilization and power consumption—and iTRACS
helps you identify the dead weight.
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2 Identify Stranded Switch Ports:
Connected but unused stranded switch ports are a slow,
steady drain on your data center’s bottom line. They not
only waste power, they occupy physical space in the
switch that could be put to productive use. iTRACS gives
you the visibility to locate and reuse these nonproductive
switch ports—rather than having to buy new ones.

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3 Conduct Root Cause Analysis:
Many DCIM solutions enable you to monitor power,
environmental conditions and other metrics in the data
center. Few, however, can determine the source of a
problem as quickly as iTRACS DCIM. Thanks to our
unique understanding of the complex interconnectivity
between assets, power, and network, iTRACS can
rapidly diagnose potential issues and trace them back
to the source(s), identifying any other systems and assets
that could be affected.

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4 “What-If” Scenarios
and Simulations:
The ability to accurately predict—ahead of time—
how a tech refresh, MAC or reconfiguration will impact
availability, capacity and efficiency across the data
center is absolutely critical. Yet many DCIM solutions can’t.
iTRACS DCIM can. It allows you to simulate how a future
change will reverberate through the physical ecosystem
and test your failover protection—all from within the
safety of the software. So you can get it right, right from
the start.

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5 Improve Capacity Planning:
Here’s the scenario:
You need to increase CPU cycles by 12 percent within
six weeks. You have a limited power budget and limited
rack space. You also have iTRACS. It surveys the entire
landscape to identify underperforming servers, assess
work plans, and create specific work orders for replacing
old servers. It automatically filters the racks by space,
power, and network capacity, and suggests where
to locate the new assets. Done. Who needs six weeks?

7. That’s iTRACS
®
–
DCIM Simplified!