HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 7)

2 Key concepts
Data centers, racks, and power delivery devices
Data centers
HP Insight Control power management enables you to define the data center physical topology
with racks containing systems, enclosures, and devices. A data center is an arbitrary rectangular
grid that allows you to specify the placement of racks. You may create data centers to describe a
lab floor or a portion of a computer room. This provides a useful grouping to summarize your
environment and its power and thermal requirements. Insight Control power management provides
ease of managing, monitoring, and positioning the racks in a data center.
Data centers are displayed in the Systems Insight Manager System and Events Collections pane
in the collection named All Data Centers. By convention, power management shows racks running
from West-to-East with North displayed to the top of the screen.
Racks
HP Insight Control power management enables you to define or create a rack to mount enclosures,
systems, and other unmanaged devices, and to provide power delivery topology and redundant
and uninterruptible power supply to the devices in it. Insight Control power management also
enables you to describe and summarize unmanageable system or power delivery devices.
Power delivery devices
HP Insight Control power management enables you to create the power distribution device objects,
to describe the power source for one or more components in the rack. Define Power Delivery Device
should only be used to describe power delivery devices that cannot be discovered by Systems
Insight Manager. For intelligent PDR/PDU or power meter devices, the power properties are
configured during discovery through Systems Insight Manager. Do not use this dialog to create a
power delivery device that has a discoverable network accessible management module.
The power delivery devices are displayed in the Systems Insight Manager System and Events
Collections pane in the collection named All Power Delivery Devices.
Power topology
A typical power network topology in a data center includes power feed, PDRs, PDUs, racks,
enclosures, and servers. Figure 1 (page 8) illustrates a typical power network topology.
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