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Features & Benefits

Powered by RPE2 Server Performance Estimate

Compare servers more accurately with tools powered by the industry-recognized RPE2 Server Performance Estimate

• A comprehensive and common performance measure enables speedier and more accurate server consolidation analysis.

Comprehensive Historical Database

Gain access to a database of over 20,000 unique server configurations, each with environmental, energy, and memory perspectives.

• Create better, more accurate plans while saving time too.

Smart Import

Import your server inventory for use in ServerCAR consolidation analysis.

• The majority of the time spent in planning a server consolidation project is consumed by gathering, cleansing, and entering asset data into a planning and analysis tool. Smart Import dramatically streamlines this time-consuming process, offering productivity gains in the range of four to tenfold.

Server Consolidation Analysis Tool

Plan detailed server consolidation projects quickly and easily by:

• Assessing your current server inventory
• Modeling potential replacement server outcomes
• Conducting “what if” analyses on multiple scenarios
• Quantifying savings in terms of numbers of servers, physical space, and power and cooling

• Explore more options in less time and generate more accurate outcomes.

Carbon Calculator

See the benefits of your consolidation project summarized in terms of annualized electricity savings,  CO2e reductions, and carbon footprint reduction.

• Instantly quantify environmental savings according to your datacenter location. The Carbon Calculator leverages a comprehensive database of location-specific cost and conversion factors, enabling analysis by country – and even by US state.

Target Server Wizard

Be guided to the best server and configuration options with a five-star ranking feature, based on your customized requirements.

• Evaluate multiple potential solutions in less time, including solutions you may not have otherwise considered – even within your set of preferred vendors’ products..

QuickView

Look up details for individual server configurations, including power consumption, heat dissipation, physical dimensions, and weight.

• Quickly find specific server configuration details without engaging the full server consolidation analysis tool. This feature is very convenient when you only need to confirm details for a couple of configurations.

Save and Share

Save multiple projects and analyses. Share outcomes with colleagues.

• The ability to easily save, recall, and share outcomes makes ServerCAR an ideal collaboration tool for server consolidation project teams.

Summary Report

Export an illustrated Server CAR project outcome analysis

• Share an illustrated ServerCAR project outcome with clients and prospects to sell them on the benefits of undertaking a consolidation project with your organisation.

Scope

Over 20,000 featured x86, RISC, and IA-64 server configurations dating as far back as 1995.

Featured Companies

• Cisco
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