Eaton Intelligent Power Manager software update

Eaton Corporation has announced the latest version of its Intelligent Power Manager software with new capabilities designed to remotely shut down a host server during a power outage within VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) mode. The company claims to be the first uninterruptible power system (UPS) manufacturer to offer such capabilities within HA mode.

Building on Intelligent Power Manager’s existing integration with vSphere, IT and data centre managers running vSphere HA can now shut down a host server remotely when an event threatens the power to the server. It will shut down the host server and all the virtual machines residing on it, protecting unsaved work and preserving data integrity.

The Intelligent Power Manager software update also provides an Eaton digital signature for the Intelligent Power Manager and Intelligent Power Protector packages.

The HA update is built upon Intelligent Power Manager’s existing VMware integration, which enables IT personnel to view, monitor and administer not only physical and virtual servers, but also UPSs, PDUs and other power devices, through VMware’s vCenter Server platform.