Analyze Performance, Energy, and Costs

With the breadth of data that Sentilla collects – from resource utilization such as CPU, memory, disk, and network use to environmental conditions like power consumption and temperature – you can quickly identify where the greatest opportunities for efficiency exist in your environment. Because data is continuously analyzed in real time, you can make accurate, informed decisions about the size and choice of your equipment infrastructure.

How It Works

To gain a 360-degree view of your data center solely with software, Sentilla includes the Sentilla Inference Engine, which determines the power consumption and utilization of unmetered equipment, and the Sentilla Analysis Engine, for sophisticated analysis of how the data center is operated. This immediate visibility into real-time data means you’ll accurately know the net effect on capacity and cost. With this information, Sentilla can make recommendations regarding how to best use and manage your infrastructure.

With patent-pending Sentilla Virtual Meters, Sentilla determines the active load power consumption of equipment purely using software. Customers are able to manage energy and utilization without installing a single new meter. Data is captured using a variety of protocols integrated with Enterprise Management Systems and Building Management Systems, and baseband controllers on newer servers.

Asset analysis allows you to query for data regarding idle equipment, consolidation options as well as custom queries. Then, you can drill down on areas of interest, such as underutilized assets. You can even create custom queries in order to examine and correlate all of the rich data that Sentilla monitors and analyzes. With this same analysis, you can evaluate your operation by application, by equipment and by line of business. With this insight, you can benchmark each constituent and how effectively they use IT resources.

Inference Engine

Virtual meters accurately calculate the power consumption of unmetered equipment by leveraging system workload information readily accessible from availability monitoring tools. Sentilla combines physical and virtual meter readings with the power distribution tree to deduce full energy consumption of each branch, resulting in full coverage from switchgear to server.

The Sentilla Inference Engine identifies how to get the most out of your equipment by capturing metrics over your entire IT infrastructure and correlating IT workloads to more energy profiles.

Analysis Engine

With full power coverage of the data center, the Sentilla Analysis Engine turns billions of data points into actionable strategies to improve data center operations. Sentilla leverages statistical analysis and unstructured data intelligence to quickly extract and present the most important opportunities and metrics about your IT operation.