Console management can ease data center concerns as hurricane season sets in

Consider a hypothetical situation: A hurricane is expected in a region and the office closes for the day so workers can stay home, off of the roads and at less risk. However, customer-facing systems are still running and an extended data center outage is not allowable because company leaders want people back at work as soon as possible after the storm. However, IT managers are not necessarily going to camp out at the data center during a hurricane. Console server systems can resolve the issue of distance and responsiveness. With console management systems in place, a data center can be managed from any location with internet access. This means that an IT manager with a smartphone app that works with the console server setup can move virtual machines around the data center and adjust the configuration to minimize the impact of the outage, all without setting foot in the data center.

Console servers and hurricanes
Console management architectures are an invaluable tool because they enable organizations to maintain a constant ability to manage the data center without forcing workers to take on risk during disaster events. Having console servers in place can help IT leaders manage the data center effectively in response to a disaster, positioning organizations to avoid the severe negative consequences of an extended outage.

Perle's wide range of 1 to 48 port Perle Console Servers provide data center managers and network administrators with secure remote management of any device with a serial console port. Plus, they are the only truly fault tolerant Console Servers on the market with the advanced security functionality needed to easily perform secure remote data center management and out-of-band management of IT assets from anywhere in the world.