nlyte Floor Planner Module

The nlyte Floor Planner Module is a CAD-style graphical interface that enables you to plan and manage the physical layout of the floors and rooms within your data center.

A powerful graphical tool for planning and managing your data center
The nlyte Floor Planner Module allows you to drag and drop assets onto the floor plan and position them to create the precise room layout you require. Using the nlyte Floor Planner zoom and measuring tools you can position assets to within an accuracy of 0.01mm. The floor planner also helps you manage operational issues within the data center such as power provision, use of space, heat control and air flow.

Layered modeling of your data center assets
The nlyte Floor Planner Module presents a layered representation of all the assets on your data center floor. You can create individual layers for each asset category such as cabinets, floor standing servers, cage representations, power infrastructure, air conditioning and networks. These can be displayed together or separately to simplify data center planning and issue resolution. These layers also include a layout layer that holds your floor plan drawings with static equipment and a grid layer that provides you with axes alignment guidelines.

Color coded asset monitoring and capacity reporting
To help your managers identify potential threats and issues, the nlyte Floor Planner Module includes real-time ad hoc capacity reports. As work continues within your data center, nlyte monitors the different performance thresholds that apply to each device. If your operations result in these thresholds being approached or exceeded, nlyte® color codes the affected device on the appropriate layer of the report’s graphical output.

The floor planner reports include:

• Used/available space
• Heat output/available cooling capacity
• Used/available network ports in any given cabinet

Easily track asset relationships and records to help you resolve issues
From the color coded results of each report you can quickly identify any jeopardized asset and click on it to drill down into the detail. This may launch the nlyte Cabinet Planner, from where you can display the cabinet asset record to understand why thresholds are low, or display the associated asset record from within the nlyte DataCenter Module. From each of these asset records you can follow the relationship chain to explore the conditions of any other related asset.

The nlyte Floor Planner Module provides you with easy access to all assets in the relationship chain, from whichever end you choose to start. You no longer have to rely on a difficult combination of design drawings and spreadsheets. Instead, nlyte's® graphical presentation of this information makes it easy for you to track the asset chain in order to understand where potential issues exist and how to resolve them.