The Trellis DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Managment) Solution is a Dynamic infrastructure optimization Platform. It's the first holistic DCIM platform of hardware, software and services to bridge the critical gap between IT equipment and data center physical infrastructure. Trellis ensures Availability, Efficiency, Agility for the modern Data Center Infrastructure.

1. Emerson Network Power
DCIM –– the Trellis™ Platform
Summary Overview
Features & Benefits
Presented by Greg Stover
DCiM Solutions LLC
gstover@nerdata.com
Cooling – Power – Monitoring - DCIM

2. Emerson Network Power
Introduction and g
Agenda
Agenda for Emerson Trellis Presentation
Introductions
Begin to Understand your DCIM Strategic Drivers
Emerson & DCIM Solutions LLC Partnership
ENP Data Center Solutions Group – Strategy, Direction and Value to You!
Trellis Architectural Overview –What makes us Unique?
Why Hardware & Software; Review Modules (our Modular Approach)
General Q&A Session, Discussion of Next Steps
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3. Innovation Pathway
Emerson Network Power
New - Data Center Solutions Group
¾ IT Solutions
¾ Facility Solutions

4. Emerson Network Power
Enabling the Future of Technology
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©2013 Emerson Electric Co. All rights reserved. Proprietary Information

5. Data Center Eco-System ( A 3 layer cake)
IT Layer
Physical Layer
Safety buffer between layers
= Over-provisioning
= Stranded Capacity
Application Layer
DECOMMISIONING
The data center has evolved from a static homogeneous
environment to a p complex g heterogeneous eco-y
system
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6. Stages of DCIM
DCIM is a Process – Not an Event!
Data Capture
and Planning
„ What and where are
Monitor and Access Analyze and Diagnose
Recommend
„ How do „ How are my assets
and Automate
„ How do I assets in the data
center?
„ How are they
interconnected?
„ Do e ha e space
I extend
the life of the data
center?
„ How do I reduce
mean time to repair
(MTTR)?
operating?
„ Am I getting real-time
notification of alarms
and alerts?
„ H d t
anticipate
potential failures and
automatically shift
compute
and physical load
to eliminate
we have space,
cooling and power to
meet my current and
future needs?
„ How can I efficiently
i i
„ How do I synch
infrastructure with
virtualization
automation?
H di
How do I get my
server back up and
running?
„ Can I populate my
planning tools with
t l f
downtime?
„ How can I optimize
efficiency across my
data center?
commission
decommission? Can
Iimprove my MAC
process? Workflow?
„ How are we doing
against SLAs?
Reduced actual performance
data?
Early Availability at
Improved Planning
MTTR
and Effort
Warning
(Reactive) Optimal Performance
(Proactive)
To enable the ability to
SEE – DECIDE - ACT

7. The Solution
Trellis
Dynamic infrastructure optimization platform
The first holistic DCIM platform of hardware, software and services to
bridge the critical gap between IT equipment and data center physical
infrastructure.
Availability – Efficiency - Agility

8. The Trellis™ Platform Architecture:
Holistic Real-time Holistic, time, Distributed Architecture
* Process Manager
Now Available

9. Avocent® Universal Management
Gateway
Avocent® Universal Management
Gateway
ƒ Provides real-time monitoring of
heterogeneous devices through the
onboard Trellis™ intelligence engine
ƒ High-powered processor dedicated to the
task of collecting and filtering relevant
DCIM event data to the Trellis platform
capabilities
ƒ System that provides security
authorization and prohibits unauthorized
access to any DCIM device
ƒ Speaks IP, SNMP, Velocity, BACnet,
Modbus
ƒ Provides KVM, serial, service processor
access and management
ƒ Supports environmental sensors
The Avocent Universal Management Gateway
appliance processes information at the edge for
better performance
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10. Gaining Visibility Requires an Integrated Approach
Trellis™ Platform
Applications
Avocent® Universal
Management Gateway
•Modular Construction
•Contextual user interface
•Role based and configurable
g y
•Heterogeneous Communication
•Multiple Protocol Support
•Real-Time Collection
•Bi-Directional Communication

11. The Trellis™ Platform Capabilities
Inventory Management
Inventory Catalog
Device/Container Capacities
Placement/Connections/Visualization
Third Party Integrations
Capacity Planning
Area, Container, System Capacities
Threshold Alerting/Capacity Search
Real-Time Consumption
Reporting and Analytics
Change Management
Future Planning
Device Change Visualization
Capacity Changes Per Project
Mobile Access
Asset management on the DC floor
Reduction in time for audits
Bar coding and image recognition

12. The Trellis™ Platform Capabilities
Power Chain Management
Model the Power Chain
Visualize the Chain
Track via One-Line Diagram
Alarm Management
Monitor and Visualize Alarms
Alert Relevant People/Systems
Device Monitoring
Monitor Device Data
Visualize Data
Energy Efficiency
Efficiency Metrics include PUE
Dashboard of energy consumption
Dashboard on sub-system cost
Analytics
Dash-Boarding
Reporting
Charge Backs or Show Backs

13. Trellis™ Platform –– Site Manager
Feature: Alarm/Event management
Benefit: Focus on critical versus non critical
alarms
Value: Improve MTTR through graphical
representation of where an alarm is being
generated and how its performance impacts
the downstream devices.
Feature: Device operating status and data trends
Benefit: Identify and resolve issues with
critical infrastructure devices
Value: Reduce the risk of unplanned
downtime with intelligent resource
management that brings focus on only those
alarms that need attention.
Feature: Collect and analyze real-time data
Benefit: Respond to issues as they occur
Value: Reduce IT risk by preventing
unplanned downtime

14. Trellis™ Platform –– Inventory Manager
Feature: Track Data Center Inventory
Benefit: Make quicker decisions on placement of
new equipment
Value: Improve efficiency by consolidating
disparate point products into one single source
that can be referenced for all infrastructure device
planning and management tasks.
Feature: Search and locate within the data center
Benefit: Allows data center operators to find
equipment quicker
Value: Quickly determine the optimal location for
devices to be placed or moved with intelligent
asset placement.
Feature: Visually track configuration of assets
Benefit: Gives an overview of inventory deployed
and capacity availability
Value: Match available resources with the device
requirements to better calculate the impact on
underlying resources.

15. Trellis™ Platform - Inventory Manager
Feature: User Definable Colorization
Benefit: Ability to assign a color to a list of
predefined properties
Value: Saves time when trying to find capacity
or uncover potential current and future risks
such as hot spots or lack of power in the Data
Center
Feature: Capacity Search
Benefit: Incorporates location such as building,
floor, space and zone
Value: Lets users focus their capacity search to
specific area, providing more granular data
about their capacity
Feature: Switch Gear Elevation View
Benefit: Visualize and build out switch gear
similar to a rack or PDU
Value: Lets users focus their capacity search to
specific area, providing more granular data
about their capacity
Note: This is a joint feature between Site Manager and
Inventory Manager

16. Trellis™ Platform - Inventory Manager
Feature: Update symbol version in device view
Benefit: Quickly select a device and
replace it with new version
Value: Reduces user time
Feature: Access to real-time data from floor plan
view
Benefit: Simple process to pull up real-time
data for monitored devices.
Value: Drives a more efficient and cost
effective business by presenting critical
data in a meaningful way
Feature: Drag and drop devices across spaces
Benefit: No longer have to cut, copy, and
paste devices
Value: Reduces time in making changes.

17. Trellis™ Platform - Change Planner
Feature: Model future changes to data center
Benefit: Reduce the amount of time
needed for planning a change
Value: Eliminate the need for costly
rework by seeing the impact of proposed
changes before committing resources.
Feature: Schedule major events
Benefit: Have a clean set of instructions
for each change in the data center
infrastructure.
Value: Improve staff efficiency by
proactively planning and managing
changes.
Feature: Track complete change history Benefit: Be fully in control of all changes
and visualize changes before they occur
Value: Reduces time in making changes.
Integrate with Ticketing Systems
(Service Now – Remedy – Heat etc.)

18. Trellis™ Platform –– Power System Mgr
Feature: Dependencies of the complete power system
Benefit: Awareness of the active power path and
the status of each device in the power system
Value: Provides insight into power distribution
along the chain, limiting disruptions to availability
and impact on the business
Feature: Active power path status
Benefit: Visualization of aggregate status and
capacity of paralleled power devices
Value: Improves operational management of the
data center through a dynamic, power system
visualization and dashboards allowing faster alarm
response and health assessment
Feature: Power system resource utilization and capacity
Benefit: Comprehensive view of power system
resource utilization and capacity
Value: Improves availability through built-in design
capacity thresholds and incorporating device
dependency in risk assessments

19. Trellis™ Process Manager
Workflow!
Features:
• Plans and schedules
workflows for
projects
• Minimizes change
related incidents
caused by human
error
Benefits:
• Comprehensive workflow management & • Improves
operational
efficiency
process
compliance
• Audit trail for changes to diagnose change-related incidents
and prove compliance with regulations and standards
• Manages processes across the entire data center
• Prevents errors and
ensures compliance
with company
d t g p mandates
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20. Trellis™ Platform –– Process Manager
Feature: Fully automated ticketing system
Benefit: Ability to claim, assign, suspend
and withdraw tasks
Value: Improve data center efficiency
leading to reduced errors and saving cost
and time.
Feature: Four “Best Practices” processes
Benefit: Pre-canned processes for
installing, decommissioning, moving, and
renaming equipment
Value: Improve staff efficiency by
proactively planning and managing
changes.
Feature: Customization
Benefit: Ability to alter the flow of
processes along with customizing and
configuring your own processes
Value: Built in efficiency by allowing data
center staff to continuously improve the
workflow

21. Trellis™Platform - Mobile Suite
ƒ Innovative image recognition
technology and bar code
scanning capabilities
ƒ Update information in real time
or offline
ƒƒ View Trellis platform reports in
real time
ƒ Place, remove and move
devices
Benefits:
Eliminate note taking on the DC
floor
Reduce Human error
Increase DC staff efficiency
Reduces time spent on audits
Extends the real-time capabilities enabling employees to be
productive wherever they are located

22. Professional Services Value
¾ DCIM implementation expertise and a global best-practice
experience unmatched by other DCIM solution providers.
¾ Comprised of 50+ Services professionals with an average
of 8+ years experience in DCIM solutions,
¾¾ The PS team manages more than 250 DCIM customers
providing deployment and consulting services in more than
27 countries
¾¾ DCIM Success , user Maturity & Optimization comes from
Implementation & Execution is where we excel!
Emerson PS is a differentiator!

23. Future Designs are here now:
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24. ?
Next Steps?
Define some Use Cases
Schedule Live Tool Set Demo
Trellis has a very bright Future!