开源 DCIM 堆栈？

Question

Our 500-server data center is growing quickly and my manager has started investigating using a specialized Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) package to help manage constraints.

DCIM software aims to do everything: capacity planning, asset, config, change management, power & cooling monitoring, network monitoring and alarms. Some of the products she is looking at are dcTrack, DSView & nlyte. They are all proprietary and (IMO overly) expensive. Has anyone had experience with these types of systems?

We currently use Nagios, Cacti & RANCID extensively. We need to improve asset management including tracking cabling - the other DCIM feature my manager is sold on is being able to model power & cooling requirements by dragging servers between racks.

My position is that we are most of the way there with the tools we have and DCIM with all its bells & whistles is not good value, and will force us into inflexible practices that aren't necessarily best for us - not to mention vendor lock-in.

So what other practices, processes and OSS tools can you suggest to help manage a growing small-mid size data center?

Answer 1

尝试将机架表添加到您当前的软件套件中，看看是否可以满足您的需求。他们有一个很好的演示设置你可以玩。虽然本身不​​是拖放，但它确实可以帮助您可视化机架和机架空间的使用情况，以了解事物的物理配置方式。