Cisco EnergyWise ePDU upgrade

New functionalities have been announced for intelligent enclosure power distribution units (ePDUs), including support for Cisco EnergyWise power management, the ability for users to define customised outlet groups, a power scheduling function for planned shutdowns, and mass configuration and mass upgrade of ePDUs.

These functionalities enhance the Intelligent Power distribution capabilities of Eaton ePDUs and are available for the recently launched set of managed, advanced monitored and switched ePDU product ranges via firmware updates.

Cisco EnergyWise allows companies to manage, switch and control the power consumption of their infrastructure in an EnergyWise-enabled data centre. EPDU integration allows further power usage management and in-depth monitoring of consumption down to the individual server level.

The ePDUs offer intelligent power distribution and can measure consumption of volts, watts, amps and kilowatt hours in individual servers with 1% accuracy (over 2 A).

Through the addition of Cisco EnergyWise, ePDUs work as an end point in the network and can be accessed directly from any EnergyWise-enabled management application.

They allow Cisco’s management stations to query and collect information on power consumption from the individual outlet level and aggregate this information over multiple ePDUs in the network so that it is available at a glance.

In addition, the ePDUs provide control over power usage by enabling the EnergyWise network to securely switch individual outlets on or off.