Building the ITA infrastructure

When the initial system configuration is ready, you can start building the data center infrastructure and add to the inventory to create a model that represents the real-world physical data center infrastructure. See CAD Import Supported Entities   Importing data from Excel is also supported. Contact Schneider Electric for further information and making the feature available to you.   102237230_360037995134.png   Creating a representation of the locations and rooms You can add locations and rooms of different types to the system to represent the actual physical enterprise infrastructure.   Select Planning > Data Center in the Application bar. In Navigation, select the root location icon. Select File > New and then one or more of the available elements: Location Add container elements for geographical enterprise hierarchy. Floor plan Add a floor elements  Server Room Add room elements for representing white space in the model. Store Room Add space elements for representing store rooms in the model, for example, for storing newly arrived servers not yet installed in a server room. Electrical Room Add room elements for representing gray space in the model. Supporting Infrastructure Space Add space elements for representing space outside the rooms in the model, for example for chillers on the roof.   Follow the instructions in the wizard to select the shape that most closely resembles the actual shape of the room and to define any room properties. Applicable for server rooms and electrical rooms.   Once the hierarchy has been built according to your configuration, you can continue with the configuration of the data center model, for example adjusting the room design or adding equipment to the rooms.

When importing from a CAD drawing (.dwg file), these entities are supported and recognized by IT Advisor. The DWG drawing must have measurement units (e.g. mm or inches) specified to allow import at the correct scale. To detect a room or a cage, the lines must be closed, meaning shapes containing open doors or windows are not detected. The room must be drawn using poly-lines to be able to use the detect wall tool.   Shapes   Arc check_360037994574.png Circle check_360037994574.png Line check_360037994574.png MText check_360037994574.png Polyline check_360037994574.png Text check_360037994574.png 2dPolyline check_360037994574.png Ellipse  check_360037994574.png Point  check_360037994574.png Solid check_360037994574.png Hatch (only filled with a solid color)  check_360037994574.png MLine (partially)  check_360037994574.png RotatedDimension  check_360037994574.png AngularDimension  check_360037994574.png ArcDimension  check_360037994574.png DiametricDimension  check_360037994574.png RadialDimension  check_360037994574.png OrdinateDimension  check_360037994574.png AlignedDimension  check_360037994574.png Leader  check_360037994574.png MLeader  check_360037994574.png ArcAlignedText check_360037994574.png  

Adding equipment to racks Select Planning > Data Center in the Application bar. To view a room in Rack Layout, toggle the Show/Hide Rack Layout icon and click a rack in the Floor Layout.  Drag the component icon into the position in the rack layout that matches its position in the data center. To add new equipment, drag it from the Genomes pane. To add existing equipment from another position in the data center infrastructure, drag it from the Navigation pane. To add new equipment using asset provisioning in IT Advisor: Capacity: Select Planning > Asset Provisioning in the Application bar. Select the Provisioning Map overlay (tab at the bottom of the floor layout pane) to activate the color-coded view. Select the component in the Genomes pane. Review the Asset info section of the Installation Requirements pane, for example making sure that the Redundancy setting is correct. Add or review tags as required in Assign tags section of the Installation Requirements pane to categorize the equipment. In the Add Asset section of the Installation Requirements pane, type how many copies of the component to add and select where to add it: Selected racks, Each rack in the server room, Best rack (IT Advisor: Capacity functionality). Click Add. When you drag equipment into a selected rack, green highlights where it can be placed; red highlights where it cannot be placed. Repeat to add all rack-mountable equipment to the rack layout. Tip: You can move or delete multiple items at the same time by using Ctrl-click or Shift-click. Right-click the component icon and select Properties to define a custom name, for example, or to use other menu options. Adding equipment to shelves in racks All rack-mountable equipment can be shelf-mounted (Sh). Some servers have Shelf as default mounting position. Otherwise, in the Genomes pane or in the rack layout, select Properties > Mounting > Shelf in the right-click menu of the equipment you want to place on the shelf. Find the shelf in Genome Library > Other Rack Equipment and add it to local genomes. Drag a shelf from the Genomes pane into the rack layout. The shelf will not occupy a U position. Add equipment to the shelf by dragging it from the Genomes pane or the Navigation pane to the rack layout. If there is no equipment on the shelf, place the equipment in the rack, right-click the equipment and select Mounting > Shelf and the equipment will snap to the shelf. Once equipment is on the shelf, you can drag other equipment directly to the shelf. Properties of the shelf You can place equipment in the front and rear on the shelf. The depth of the shelf will determine how much equipment can be placed there. In Properties > Physical you can configure weight and depth of the shelf. The weight of the shelf will be included in the total weight of the rack.   ITA_rack_shelf_360037994494.png Reverse rack U position number ordering The rack U position numbering can be configured to be start from the top instead of the bottom of the rack. On a rack, select Properties > Physical. In the property page, there is a check box option to change Ordering from bottom to top. Uncheck the check box to make the U position count start from the top of the rack. This setting can be bulk updated using the equipment browser. The rack can also start counting U positions from zero instead of one. Use the check box option Start from zero index. ITA_ReverseRackUpositionConfiguration_360037994494.png Rack external U positions Each rack can be also equipped with additional external U positions. External U positions can be added above the rack or below. Each rack can be equipped with two external enclosures. One is located above the rack; you can choose whether it is mounted directly to the rack or it is mounted to the ceiling. When you configure an extension below the rack, it is assumed it is mounted to the floor. The weight of the additional equipment is only added to the rack from an overhead rack mounted extension. An overhead extension consists of four U positions and mounted to rack. The same size is set for the under-rack extension. External U positions can be also configured in Rack Genomes. ExternalUpositions_360037994494.png External U positions can hold any rack mounted equipment that can be placed in a horizontal U. To enable external positions, right click a rack and go to Properties > Physical > External u-positions.   ExternalRackProperties_360037994494.png When you configure external u-positions, you must define the distance. In each case, there is a different reference point: image-20210611-080928_360037994494.png   There are some limitations to external U position configurations: Maximum of ten segments can be defined above or below a rack. It is not possible to edit an external configuration with items mounted on it. External u-positions are hidden in the rack rear view.  You can select rack or ceiling overhead mounting but not both.  3D view does not show external positions. Web client is missing support for external extensions. Rack vertical U positions Each rack can be equipped with additional vertical U positions. Vertical U positions are grouped in multiple segments located within the single vertical extension panel. Each rack can be equipped with two vertical extension panels at most. One is located on the left side of the rack and the other on the right. Left and right vertical extension can have different amount of U positions grouped in segments so as to allow on having asymmetric configurations. Image shows rack with two vertical extensions. Left extension consists of three segments with three u positions in each. Right one consists of four segments with one u position in each. Vertical U positions can be also configured in Rack Genomes. ITA_rack_3_360037994494.png To enable vertical extension right click on desired rack and go to Properties > Physical > Vertical u-positions. There are some limitations to vertical U positions configurations: Maximum four segments can be defined. Maximum four U positions in segment can be defined. It is not possible to edit vertical extension configuration for vertical extension with items mounted on it. Vertical U positions can hold every rack mounted equipment that can be placed in horizontal U position, except: Blade enclosures, Switch enclosures, Shelves. ITA_rack_4_360037994494.png

In Genomes, you can create a bundle to add multiple pieces of equipment in one building block. This could be helpful, for example when creating a large data center setup in IT Advisor with a large amount of similar equipment. Together with work order templates, this is powerful for quickly adding bundles of pre-equipped rows or racks and creating the workflow to support the installation in large setups. 102237247_360037994474.png Creating a bundle In Genomes, right-click a folder and select Add bundle. Double-click the bundle icon to rename it. Adding equipment to a bundle Right-click the bundle icon and select Edit. This opens the Bundle Layout. Drag equipment from Genomes into the bundle in the Bundle Layout. You can now use the new building block by dragging the bundle from Genomes into the layout. Creating a new bundle based on an existing bundle Right-click a bundle from which you want to reuse equipment and select Copy. This creates a new bundle as a copy of the existing bundle. Rename the new bundle (double-click). Edit the bundle (right-click and drag or delete equipment). You can now create a work order template with the tasks needed for deploying all the equipment in the bundle. This template can be reused for assigning work orders to deploy all bundles.