Mountain View Data Integrates OSA IPMI to Provide PowerCockpit Module for Clusters Using HP, IBM and Dell Servers
Posted on: Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 09:00 CST
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Mountain View Data, Inc. (MVD) has announced the launch of a beta program for their IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) software module licensed from OSA Technologies, a subsidiary of Avocent Corporation integrated into PowerCockpit, a management framework for large-scale server deployments. The new IPMI module integrates OSA Technologies' existing Out-of-Band (OOB) products to provide access to old and new IPMI-enabled servers. Customers with mixed environments of HP, IBM and Dell servers can remotely power on and off multiple machines, view and interact with the BOOT screens, view Windows and Linux system consoles and monitor system hardware health.
The beta program will begin December 16, and participants will receive discounts on the product when it becomes available in early 2005. Pricing will be announced at that time. In addition to gaining IPMI functionality, users will get a limited edition of PowerCockpit software, which includes provisioning and management capabilities for clusters of servers.
"OSA Technologies is the king of the hill for IPMI firmware and software, and we're delighted to be incorporating their technology into MVD's PowerCockpit management framework," said Cliff Miller, president and CEO of Mountain View Data. "By integrating OSA IPMI products, we will lead customers out of the Dark Ages of finger driven power-cycling and BIOS Purgatory and into the enlightened age of automated software management of servers."
"MVD's PowerCockpit is an excellent vehicle for delivering our IPMI OOB capabilities to a large number of servers," said Mark Lee, president and CEO of OSA Technologies. "When you've got hundreds or thousands of machines, you need a framework that can automate processes and scale out."
"We have been using and promoting PowerCockpit for deployment and management of clusters for a few years now. With the new IPMI module for PowerCockpit, seemingly simple tasks like powering on and off single nodes or an entire cluster of DL145 servers just got a lot easier," states Dan Cox, Program Manager of High Performance Computing for Industry Standard Volume Servers at Hewlett-Packard. "We expect our leading edge customers to line up for the beta program."
PowerCockpit is being used for server provisioning and management at data centers and in research laboratories of major corporations in telecommunications, insurance, online gaming, finance, banking, genomics, scientific visualization, electronic design. OSA's IPMI firmware and software solutions, available worldwide, are designed to be easily integrated into system vendors' products and can be tailored to meet individual customer needs for differentiation.
More about IPMI
IPMI is an embedded management specification that defines a common and secure interface to how vendors monitor their system hardware and sensors (temperature, voltage, fan, etc.), control system components (power supplies, blades, etc.), log important system events (chassis intrusion, system reset, etc.) and allow administrators to remotely manage and recover failed systems. It is typically implemented at the silicon level, and is independent of the CPU, OS, BIOS and backplane. Promoted by Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel and NEC, IPMI standardizes the way embedded management subsystems communicate with systems such as, the CPU, other embedded management subsystems and remote management applications. IPMI also offers enhanced manageability for products that support the AdvancedTCA initiative. RHK, an industry research firm, recently valued the AdvancedTCA market at $3.7B by 2007 (RHK study: http://www.advancedtca.org/). Since 1998, more than 170 vendors have adopted IPMI, making it a market-proven standard.
About Mountain View Data, Inc.
Mountain View Data (MVD) develops network storage and server management software for high performance computing environments, enterprise data centers and OEM system vendors. MVD's product suite includes PowerCockpit(R), software to deploy, provision, manage and backup servers and blade servers, MVD Powered NAS(R), an operating system for networked attached storage, and MVD Sync(R), real-time synchronization and replication software. MVD end-users include IBM, HP, AMD, Toshiba, Lockheed Martin, the US Department of Energy, and the National Institute of Health. MVD was founded in 2000 and has offices in the United States, Japan and China.
For more information, visit http://www.mountainviewdata.com/.
Mountain View Data, Inc.
CONTACT: Charles Hunger of Mountain View Data, Inc., +1-650-988-9345, orcharles.hunger@mountainviewdata.com
Web site: http://www.mountainviewdata.com/
Source: PRNewswire
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