PowerEdge C Product Group

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PowerEdge C systems management is built upon industry standards delivering essential functionality that easily integrates into existing management frameworks
Essential Features Supported
– IPMI standards easily integrate into existing management tools
– BMC web interface enables remote control of systems anytime, anywhere
– Simple Health LEDs alert administrators of potential issues
– Updates are easy with Standard Dell
Update Packages (DUP)
– PowerEdge C Linux Toolkit delivers scriptable and scalable systems management
– Full SNMP support
› C5000 Series only
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Robust Capability
• Basic status
• Sensor monitoring
• Virtual power
• iKVM
• Log files
• Virtual med ia
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Scriptable and scalable systems management
What’s Included:
– Quickstart Guide
– Scalable BIOS Setup Utility
› Configure BIOS settings and replicate to many systems
– 1:Many PXE boot image
› Customizable PXE boot image for Inventory, BIOS updates, provisioning and deployment
– BMC Tool
› CLI front end delivers consistent user interface across all PE-C platforms
› Manage/Configure remote BMCs for zero presence management
› Monitor system health for maximum uptime
› Flash update BIOS/BMC/FCB firmware remotely
– Reference Scripts
› Nagios
› More to come
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BIOS Setup Utility
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BIOS Setup Utility
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• Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager is included in all Intel based PowerEdge C Servers and delivers the ability to make every watt consumed in the data center count
– Reports system level, processor and memory subsystem power consumption
– Limits power at the system, processor and memory level – utilizing policies defined by IT management
• These powerful features are available through third party applications like Joulex…
Data Center Solutions

Enterprise
Energy
Reporting
JouleX
Energy
Manager
• Discovery & Measurement
• Analysis & Simulation
• Policy & Control
• Reporting & Decision Support
Employee Portal
Cloud
Mobile
GPS
Energy
Manager
PoE
Cisco
EnergyWise
JUNOS
Space
IPMI
WMI vPro
SSH
Non-
PoE
SNMP
Web Services
Intel DCM/NM
Non-
IP
BacNET
LonWorks
ModBUS
- Cisco Mediator
- Fieldserver
- Echelon
Endpoints &
Systems
Distributed Office Data Center Facilities
Data Center Solutions