Data center monitoring and management company Geist has a new set of power distribution units (PDUs) - suitable for cloud data centers operating a DevOps regime.

The R-series “next generation” PDUs integrate with software through Active Directory integration, using standard secure web services interfaces for management and monitoring.

This should help the power strips support enterprise or other cloud environments where virtual machine loads are being moved within the data center.

Management via software
DevOps removes barriers between the development and operations parts of an organisation, with operations providing platform-as-a-service resources for developers, so new applications can be created in a virtual machine or container and moved into production without complex porting activities. This means that resources in the data center need to be powered up and down under software control.

Geist says its product suspports this regime because it is managed through a RESTful (REepresentational State Transfer) Web API, using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). Communications can be over IPv6, and use Secure Shell (SSH).

Intelligent features are emerging in smart or “software defined” power systems, a field where Geist claims particular strength. Geist’s PDUs are upgradeable, featuring montioring modules which can be plugged in and replaced.

“Customers need reporting and alerting to ensure safe power usage thresholds are maintained, redundancy of the power circuits will work as expected in an event of a failure, and the ability to manage power outlets at the port level in-band and out-of-band,” said Geist Data Centre Solutions Group vice president Brad Wilson.
 

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