Provisioning is now Easier
Find the Optimal Cabinet to Deploy IT Equipment in Seconds
With Sunbird’s Intelligent Capacity Search, easily find capacity for new equipment. Simply select your location and criteria, and Sunbird’s DCIM solution finds available capacity for you.
- Search by make and model or RU height, cabinet grouping, type, or function, and data and power connectivity.
- Specify the quantity to add to each cabinet so you can reserve capacity for multiple items at a time.
- Validate results for data and power port compatibility, including quantity of ports, connector, media type, nameplate and budgeted watts, phase, and volts.
- Sort and filter results based on any of the available criteria.
- View cabinet elevations with available and contiguous RUs and RU position so you can see exactly where your devices will be placed.
- See the latest live power readings for each cabinet to help identify stranded capacity.
- Assign project numbers to each item with a single click to quickly organize your devices.
- Instantly reserve cabinet space or place items once you’ve identified the location.
Reserving Capacity is as Easy as Booking a Hotel Room
Reserve space, power, and connectivity all at once.
Sunbird’s DCIM solution leverages real-time data for seamless, just-in-time reservations across multiple users on multiple projects. Simply provide the item make and model, and all the details you need are populated automatically. Once an item is planned for installation, the required space, data connections, and power connections are automatically reserved and blocked from being used for other projects.
Not sure which assets you want to install? To reserve just space capacity, simply provide the RU height, cabinet, and U-position. Add an expiration date to return the reservation to the available pool of resources in case your plans change.
Built-In Intelligence to Help You Easily Understand Power Capacity at Every Hop in the Power Chain
Sunbird’s second-generation DCIM software budgets data center power capacity just like an electrical engineer reserves power—but with automatic, instantaneous calculations that eliminate manual effort and human error.
Correlated Capacity Reporting So Easy, Even Your Management Can Understand It
Tired of explaining to management that you have space but no power or cooling? Show your management team exactly why you need more data center capacity with Sunbird’s 3D visualization reports.
- Easy-to-understand floor map visualizations correlate real-time data across the most common capacity constraints to clearly illustrate capacity shortages so you can purchase more as needed.
- Select multiple capacity parameters at the same time, including space, weight, temperature, humidity, power load, budgeted power, and measured amps.
- Set and update thresholds for individual reports to gain a more accurate view of capacity.
View Port-Level Capacity at Every Rack
Drill down from the data center health floor map and instantly get a real-time view of granular rack capacity, down to the port level.
- Available space
- Potential power
- Budgeted power
- Copper, fiber and power ports
- Weight
- Number of items in cabinet
- Available RUs
- Largest number of contiguous RUs
Correlate Data Across Multiple Systems
Sunbird’s completely open data framework makes it easy to extract and link data for use with third-party tools via ODBC and APIs out of the box
Forecast Capacity with Real-Time Resource Management
Look into the future to plan adds, decommissions, and other changes that impact your data center capacity:
- View available and in-use resources based on a date for just-in-time capacity management, including assets that are planned to be decommissioned
- Plan and reserve capacity that will become available later, even if that capacity is currently used for other projects
- Use what-if analyses to determine the impact of changes to your data center before they happen and without impacting your current equipment
- Leverage real-time data to forecast remaining “days of capacity” left so you’ll know when you need to purchase more—before you run out of capacity
Easily Visualize Space Capacity Across All Cabinet Elevations
Say goodbye to Visio diagram management with automatically created cabinet elevations. Now you don’t have to visit the data center floor to see what space you have in any cabinet. Identify available space capacity for multiple racks across any sites at a glance.
