What is the difference between DCE & DCO?

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This question was originally posted on DCIM Support by Muhammad Genjua on 2019-04-02

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This answer was originally posted on DCIM Support by Jef Faridi on 2019-05-03

Hi Genjua,

Sorry for the very late response. I will try to answer those 7 questions:

1- If you have/need modeling a usual data center then you might go for "DCO license", but as a colo provider you might need the colo functionality such cage creation, customer association with racks/cages, etc. then you might go for "DCO Colo license".

2- Licenses are rack based! so there is no limitation on number of created cages and/or users.

3- "One mobile application license is for single user?" This is not clear for me, but as mentioned above, licenses are rack based! so only the number of modeled racks would be counted.

4- I think some users/customers using "Store Room" in DCO as a sort of inventory management. However, via ETL integration interface it is possible to integrate with ServiceNow.

5- For PUE calculations, currently two options available: a) creating a simple PUE b) configuring Energy Efficiency PUE (requires Energy Efficiency license)

6- Currently (in DCO 8.3) with the basic license it is possible to integrate with Cisco UCS Manager (as external system).

7- HP uCMDB integration can be done via ETL integration interface in DCO. And currently with the basic license it is possible to integrate with HP OneView (as external system).

PS: please start with a new community post/case if you should have more questions 😀 thanks.

Kind regards

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DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This answer was originally posted on DCIM Support by spezialist on 2019-04-02

Dear Muhammad Genjua,

As described on portal https://ecostruxureit.com/all-solutions/:

MONITORING SOFTWARE: StruxureWare™ Data Center Expert - Centralized monitoring, quick resolution of events, vendor neutral.

and

PLANNING AND MODELING SOFTWARE: StruxureWare™ Data Center Operation - Data analysis and modeling, intelligent energy management, airflow optimization, impact analysis, KVM, configurable web portal.

In more detail with the above software, its purpose and pricing policy can be found on the links StruxureWare Data Center Expert and StruxureWare Data Center Operation.

In addition, I advise you to watch a few explanatory videos on the resource Video Tutorials. This will help you understand the purpose of this software.

If you have more questions, please ask.

With respect.

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This answer was originally posted on DCIM Support by Muhammad Genjua on 2019-04-11

Thanks much for your reply, Yes i have more questions to ask and i will start from Data Center Operations and then move forward to Data Center Operation - Capacity , Cooling Optimize etc.

Data Center Operation:

In the license we have two types of license, Colo License and Simple License, If we have multi vendor or commercial data center we will go with Colo License else go with simple one?
If we order Colo License of 100 racks how many cages we can built? and how many different user can logon with it to monitor their servers?
One mobile application license is for single user?
How we will perform inventory management? Through ServiceNow? We need to order some license to use it?
For PUE calculation it will integrate and pull data from EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert?
Cisco UCSTM Manager Plug-in is free of cost or it is paid?
Its library already contain HP uCMDB and OneView integration stuff? is it a part of Data Center Operation – Server Access

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This comment was originally posted on DCIM Support by spezialist on 2019-04-11

Dear Muhammad Genjua,

Questions about DCO software competently will be able to answer Jef Faridi.

With respect.

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This comment was originally posted on DCIM Support by Muhammad Genjua on 2019-05-02

Jef Faridi i will be looking forward for your kind answer.

BR

Genjua

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05