Eaton Corporation Intelligent Power Manager software

Eaton Corporation’s Intelligent Power Manager software is designed to enhance disaster data recovery and planned migration within VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. It provides automatic virtual machine synchronisation and initiation of a backup site to avoid data loss and reduce downtime during power outages, when shutting down servers is unavoidable.

The Intelligent Power Manager software achievement of VMware Ready certification, VMware’s highest level of endorsement, followed a detailed validation process. The qualification signifies that the software has met VMware integration and interoperability standards and works effectively with VMware cloud infrastructure, which will speed time-to-value within user environments. Keeping critical workloads operational and preventing data corruption are a data centre’s top priorities during power outages and VMware’s vCenter platform offers users the required capability and control to preserve mission critical data and business continuity.

Traditionally, when a virtualised data centre loses power, technicians must manually initiate the recovery process in a specific sequence, often in the face of intense time pressure. The product increases productivity and response time by identifying the power failure immediately, initiating a backup site, and triggering VMware Site Recovery Manager’s disaster recovery failover and planned migration processes. The VMware Site Recovery Manager capability enables IT personnel to view, monitor and administer not only physical and virtual servers, but also uninterruptible power systems (UPSs), power distribution units (PDUs) and other power devices through VMware’s vCenter Server platform.