I am looking for a software tool helping me to find an optimized place where new

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I am looking for a software tool helping me to find an optimized place where new datacenter components, such as servers and network devices, should be placed.

Important criteria are:

climate of room and of rack
output of rack
power consumption of new device
rack units
SAN-Ports free/needed
LAN-Ports free/needed

There are tools for doing listings to find out which component is where placed (common DCIM tools). But how to find the optimized place for new devices. Which tool (plugin, module) could help ?

Explanation / Answer

DC planning software is pretty common so by all means shop around. The product I've seen most recently is Emerson Power planner. A former employers colo provider used it to monitor pretty much everything.

IIRC it requires sensors to be placed throughout the datacenter so you can only use certain features if you own the datacenter, but it's pretty robust. It allows you to track several different data points all from one pane of glass.

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