Eaton K-12 Capabilities Brochure

K-12 Capabilities Brochure
Intelligent Power Manager
Manage your K-12 power infrastructure smarter with Eaton
As an IT professional in a K-12 school, educators and students rely on your network and
technology to learn and grow in a safe, modern classroom setting. Having time to focus on future
planning and new technology adoption is critical but not likely since your day is usually consumed with
fighting fires. When given the opportunity to enhance the lives of the faculty or students, your value as an
IT professional fully materializes. Achieve your career goals and allow for more of these game-changing
opportunities through Eaton's smart power management capabilities that alleviate key IT roadblocks.
If given the time, you could focus on things like:
 Improving documentation
 Teacher training
 E
nhancing learning processes
 Automation
 Single sign-on
 B
olstering wireless capabilities
Some of the challenges you may face preventing
you from advancing these technologies include:
 Budget constraints
 Lack of time
 Not enough staff or support
 Downtime
 S
low adoption by faculty
Eaton's power management solutions will save you time, money and reduce your risk of downtime,
allowing you to create a highly available network that enriches the educational process and empowers
teachers through instant and continuous access to technology.
Save time
by remotely and automatically
remediating power issues
Save money
by avoiding costly downtime
and data loss
Reduce risk
by implementing a
disaster avoidance plan
Eaton solutions are E-Rate
category 2 eligible
Powering infrastructure where it’s needed
IT networks and the power management devices that keep them running are the
backbone of today’s K-12 environments. Students, faculty and staff rely on being able
to access information—from updated records to researching a science fair project—
when they’re in the classroom and at home. Put simply: downtime just isn’t an option.
Eaton can ease your day-to-day workload by offering reliable, efficient and safe power management
solutions that organize, protect and manage your environment. Our goal is to ensure that your networks
and connected equipment remain available in your “always-on” environment so you can concentrate
on the things that matter most to you. Areas within your district that we can help include:
ecurity: Safeguard bell systems
• S
and cameras with locking wall
mount enclosures and a 5PX UPS
(uninterruptible power supply)
Emergency
lighting
• Emergency lighting: Keep the
lights on even when the power
isn’t with our UL 924 certified
emergency lighting UPS options
Pointof-sale
Network
closet
Security
• P
oint-of-sale: Protect cafeteria
transactions with a 5SC UPS
• N
etwork closet: Reduce clutter
and improve remote monitoring and
management with a two-post rack,
cable management, 9PX UPS, intelligent
ePDU G3 (rack PDU) and Intelligent
Power Manager (IPM) software
Computer
lab/digitized
testing
• C
omputer lab/digitized testing:
Avoid unplanned disruptions with a
3S UPS
• D
istrict management:
Remotely monitor and manage entire
district with Visual Power Manager (VPM)
District
management
Eaton offers a wide range of solutions.
Consult your local sales person for configurations.
Organize
Protect
Manage
Keep servers, switches
and storage safe and
secure with:
Provide clean, reliable and
redundant power with:
Monitor, control and
automate your power
infrastructure with:
• Open-frame racks
• Extended battery module
• Intelligent Power Manager
• M
aintenance bypass
module
• Intelligent rack PDUs
• Wall-mount enclosures
• F
ull enclosures with
locking doors
• Basic rack PDU
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• Rackmount UPS
• UPS service
• V
isual Power Manager
• E
nviornmental monitoring
probe
Eaton offers two power management software
platforms that help you manage smarter
VPM and IPM together create a robust power management solution that through
IT platform integrations can monitor and automate risk mitigation actions, keeping
your district running at full capacity.
When we say our software integrates, we mean it!
”Everyone says their software integrates into VMware, but when challenged and asked to
demonstrate in house, they couldn’t do it. Eaton was the only one who could deliver that.”
T om McNinch, Washington Unified School District IT manager
Monitor with VPM
Automate and control with IPM
VPM excels at remotely monitoring large and
distributed deployments of power devices and is
ideal for monitoring a school district. The easy-to-use,
visual interface provides a live floorplan view with
alarm notifications for up-to-the-minute health status
on your power infrastructure.
IPM is an on-site policy-based automation software
platform that triggers advanced remediation actions
—shedding non-critical workloads to extend battery
runtime—during a power event to ensure that critical
equipment remains running as long as possible.
Use VPM to monitor power in your schools and
administration buildings to better visualize your power
infrastructure and take action as needed to maintain
continuous uptime of your critical applications.
In other words, IPM automatically takes action when
it notices something awry—once configuration and
action policies are set, IPM does the work. This
increases uptime and saves time and money by
allowing you to remotely solve power issues.
 Visual floor layout with alarm notifications help
to quickly identify power issues
 Shutdown,
suspend, power on/off and migrate
individual or groups of virtual machines (VM)
 Rack builder eases asset management and new
equipment deployments
battery runtime by suspending non Extend
critical VMs and servers
 Custom reporting allows you to deliver
intelligent reports to administration
 Safely
shut down and securely restore highavailability environments without crashing
VMs or host server
 Multitenancy user access control allows you to
set access levels per user, building or area
 Integrates with mixed vendor environment
 Control PDU outlets and UPS load segments
to remotely power on, off and reboot hung
equipment
 Instill system confidence with failover and
capacity analysis and simulations
 Flexible licensing options to meet your
budgetary needs
 Trigger
VMware Site Recovery Manager during
power event to avoid data loss
 Regulate
rack temperature and other
environmental issues
 Reduce
physical infrastructure costs and space
by needing less external battery modules to
achieve the same runtime
 Manage Eaton and third-party power devices
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Integration where it matters
Virtual desktop integration for blended learning. Increased security footprint. Expanded
mobile access. All of these changes expand your virtual infrastructure. To help provide a
more unified, resilient IT architecture, Eaton works with top IT vendors.
VMware Technology Alliance Partner
• Eaton’s
IPM and Infrastructure Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager are VMware Ready
for Orchestration and Management
Eaton.com/VMware
HPE Technology Alliance Partner
Composable
Infrastructure
Tested
• Eaton’s
IPM integrates with HPE OneView unified API for simplified power management of Composable
Infrastructures and Integrated Infrastructures
• IPM,
rack PDUs and UPSs are Composable Infrastructure Tested
• Reference
design and joint solution brief for HPE solutions, including Converged and Hyper Converged
Infrastructures
Eaton.com/HPE
Cisco Solution and DevNet Partner
• Eaton’s
IPM integrates directly with UCS server management to provide power-capping capability,
enabling users to extend runtime by setting server consumption limits during extended power outages
•White paper, reference designs and solution overview for Cisco solutions including Integrated Infrastructures
Eaton.com/Cisco
Dell EMC Technology Connect Advantage Partner
• Eaton’s
IPM, rack PDU and UPS are VCE Vblock Ready certified
• Published VxRail, VxRack reference designs, solution overview and joint solution brief
Eaton.com/EMC
NetApp Alliance Partner
• Eaton’s
IPM integrates directly with NetApp ONTAP operating systems to provide supervision and
shutdown capability for FAS storage systems
• Eaton rack PDUs are included in all FlexPod Modular Integration (FMI) systems
• Reference designs and joint solution briefs for FlexPod systems
Eaton.com/NetApp
Nutanix Technology Alliance Partner
TECHNOLOGY
ALLIANCE
• Eaton’s
IPM, enclosures, rack PDUs and UPSs are Nutanix Ready
• Reference design and joint solution brief for Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructures
Eaton.com/Nutanix
Microsoft Hyper-V Alliance Partner
• Eaton’s
IPM integrates with Microsoft Hyper-V to allow for improved load shedding capabilities and
provide remote agentless shutdown and maintenance mode initiation
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