Product Description
Product Overview
PowerPanel® Business Edition for Virtual machines provides IT professionals with the ability to trigger a graceful shutdown of their virtual environments to minimize and reduce data corruption and downtime during extended power events. The software provides IT professionals with the tools they need to easily monitor and manage backup power for their virtual environments. Available for compatible CyberPower UPS models, this software supports up to 250 clients, allowing users remote access (from any network PC with a web browser) to instantly access vital UPS battery conditions, load levels, and runtime information. Functionality includes application/OS shutdown, event logging, hibernation mode, internal reports and analysis, remote management, and more. Power alert notifications can be sent via email, text, or instant message.
This software is compatible with VMware ESX/ESXi 4 and above and is Nutanix Ready.
VMware vSphere® Enterprise Edition™ Support
PowerPanel Business Edition software’s Agent and Client roles have the ability to shut down a virtual environment by triggering virtual machines to shut down before the software triggers the VMware ESXi™ host to shut down.
Able to support vSphere monitoring, vMotion®, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, ™ and Distributed Power Management™. Enables PowerPanel Business Edition to perform additional functionality to manage and protect virtual infrastructure when power events occur. Used together with vCenter, PowerPanel Business Edition provides ease of management to centralize control and visibility of virtualized environments and power conditions. Out-of-the-box, configurable automated graceful shutdown sequence allows IT professionals to protect their virtual environments from data loss or corruption.
Provides the ability to shut down virtual machines, monitoring of clusters, monitoring and shutdown of VMware vSphere® vApps™, and the monitoring of shared storage.
Can trigger vMotion to migrate virtual machines within a cluster moving the virtual machine to an available ESXi host seamlessly keeping applications operational during power events to maintain business continuity.
Nutanix Ready Support
CyberPower UPS systems provide the required power protection and battery backup for Nutanix nodes to prevent data loss and potential equipment damage. PowerPanel Business Edition for Virtual Machines, designed to support the Nutanix environment, is available to accompany all professional-grade UPS systems.
The software manages and monitors the UPS system and automates graceful shutdown of Nutanix nodes in response to a power event. Enables PowerPanel Edition software’s Agent of a Utility Power Event on a supervisory computer when a power outage is detected. Signals PowerPanel Business Edition software agent to run the configured shutdown sequence as setup in PowerPanel Business Edition’s Event Action menu. When a Nutanix environment is enabled, PowerPanel Business Edition Agent will command the configured environment to initiate the shutdown process.
Provides configurable controls to provide load shedding during outages extending battery backup runtime.
Ability to deliver advanced alerts of power events and conditions for enhanced manageability to keep critical operations online.
- Remote Access via Web Browser
Provides for remote management of the UPS via a web browser. - User-Friendly Interface
Displays windows, notifications, dialog boxes, pop-up messages and other information in well-designed, easily navigable menus, and windows. Offers a variety of options and customizable settings. Displays details about Current Status, Summary, Notification, Runtime, Voltage, Self-Test and System Tray Pop-Up Notifications. - Customizable Settings for Event Actions
Offers versatile management of various event actions, including utility power failure, local communication loss, remaining runtime being exhausted, among others. - Alert Notifications
Sends notifications via email, XMPP, SMS, and SNMP traps. - Auto Shutdown
Protects servers and workstations from data loss due to power failure. Automatically saves files and safely shuts down your computer. - Remote Scheduling
Lets administrators arrange remote management of tasks and operations, such as scheduled self-tests, shutdowns, and reboots. - Event Logging
Provides configurable settings for tracking events. - Security Management
Allows administrators to tailor settings to fit their security needs. - Downloadable Software
Provides fast and simple installation. - Support
PowerPanel® Business Edition software is supported by our dedicated US-based support team.
