Data center management systems and methods
AssigneeOracle International Corporation
InventorKeith Ward
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed for managing data centers. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed which comprises receiving, at an interface for a data center management system, a grid location input for a first asset, the grid location input having a grid location value corresponding to a grid location in a data center managed by the data center management system. A first vertical position input for the first asset is also received at the interface, the first vertical position input having a first vertical position value indicating a vertical position. The method further comprises mapping the first asset to the grid location value and mapping the first asset to the first vertical position value.
Claims29
A method comprising:
- receiving, at an interface for a data center management system, a grid location input for a first asset, the grid location input having a grid location value corresponding to a grid location in a data center managed by the data center management system;
- receiving, at the interface, a first vertical position input for the first asset, the first vertical position input having a first vertical position value indicating a vertical position;
- mapping the first asset to the grid location value;
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- mapping the first asset to the first vertical position value.
A data center management system comprising:
- a user interface to receive a grid location input for an asset, the grid location input having a grid location value corresponding to a grid location in a data center managed by the data center management system, the user interface further to receive a vertical position input for the asset, the vertical position input having a vertical position value indicating a vertical position;
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- logic, communicatively coupled with the user interface, to map the first asset to the grid location value and to map the first asset to the first vertical position value.
A system comprising:
- a data center management system to store asset information for a plurality of assets in a data center managed by the data center management system, the data center management system further to map each of at least a subset of the assets to locations in the data center, the locations including vertical positions;
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- an accounting system, communicatively coupled with the data center management system, the accounting system to manage financial information and to receive data center usage information from the data center management system.
At least one machine-readable medium, having stored thereon a plurality of instructions, which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform the actions of:
- providing an interface for a data center management system;
- upon receiving a grid location input having a grid location value for an asset, mapping the asset to the grid location value;
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- upon receiving a vertical position input having a vertical position value for the asset, mapping the asset to the vertical position value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.