Eaton Corporation Intelligent Power Manager software updated

Eaton Corporation has announced the updated version of its Intelligent Power Manager software designed to enhance disaster data recovery and planned migration within VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

The update is designed to provide automatic virtual machine synchronisation and initiation of a backup site, also known as recovery failover, to avoid data loss and reduce downtime during power outages when shutting down servers is unavoidable. Eaton claims to be the first power management company to offer these capabilities within the VMware platform and to achieve VMware Ready certification.

The Intelligent Power Manager software achievement of VMware Ready certification, VMware’s highest level of endorsement, followed a detailed validation process. The software can be found on the VMware Solution Exchange, a single destination site for compatible VMware applications and cloud infrastructure products.

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. Eaton’s updated version of Intelligent Power Manager software 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 improves on Intelligent Power Manager’s existing VMware integration, which 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.