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Running your own data center is a challenging task but taking absolute control over it is a truly hard one. Thankfully, the new EasyDCIM is here to make your life much easier! Our fully featured control panel needs no introduction, but a brief mention about the latest functionalities introduced in version 1.3.1 will surely intrigue you. EasyDCIM now supports device bays that represent the capability of a parent device to store the child devices. For instance, 4 bays can be created and assigned to a single blade server of the height of 2U. Bays can be sorted freely according to requirements. The next novelty is support for non-racked devices of the height of 0U assigned to the rack. We have also facilitated the management of racks as well as enabled your customers to view all the IP addresses and subnets assigned to their devices directly in the client area. Of course, new EasyDCIM v1.3.1 has much more to offer in terms of new features and interesting changes. One of these changes is represented by refreshed IP Address Management For EasyDCIM 1.5.0 with a new gamut of possibilities. The updated module will allow you to assign multiple devices and VLANs to IP subnets, split IP subnets upon choosing a relevant mask and access detailed summary. A must-have tool, no doubts! To cap off our post, we would like to present you the latest screenshots of new functionalities that you will not find anywhere else, and invite you to visit our changelog to learn more about EasyDCIM v1.3.1! [gallery size="medium" link="file" ids="1017,1016,1018,1020,1019,1021"] Go To Changelog!

Attention! This article contains release spoilers. You are reading it on your own risk! Before we proceed to the main course, we would like to highlight the release of EasyDCIM v1.3.1 that will take place within no longer than a week! The upcoming edition of our system will be equipped with many improvements under the sign of Admin Experience, including but not limited to support for device bays or non-racked devices and various display enhancements that will make your daily work much easier and much faster. What is more, we will also release the next version of IP Address Management For EasyDCIM module with several completely new features like subnet splitting or assigning multiple devices to subnets. More info will show up really soon so stay tuned! Turning to the subject of EasyDCIM v1.4.0, we could have summarized it with a brief statement - it's time to beautify! Having the above in mind, our team is working really hard to make your experience with EasyDCIM way more pleasant and efficient. Therefore we will redesign its whole UI! Take a look at the first preview of the upcoming update and... expect the unexpected as these screenshots are just the beta version of the new design! [gallery size="medium" link="file" ids="954,955,957"] Let us know what you think about the new interface in the comment section below and please summon up a little patience until the version 1.4.0 is ready to launch :)

PHP 7 was officially released nearly one and a half years ago. Nowadays, its ubiquity in the whole IT industry does not surprise anyone. However, introducing a fresh technology to your product is one thing, but to do it right and exploit its full potential is quite another. In EasyDCIM we are definitely on the other side! Our goal was to squeeze maximum performance out of our system - and we succeeded. In our previous Blog article about performance comparison between v1.2.3 & v1.3.0 we prepared for you a detailed tally with hard facts on various loading times' differences. This time we would like to show you a more vivid proof that the new EasyDCIM v1.3.0 on PHP 7 works even two times faster than its previous version on PHP 5. The short animation below presents the time required to find a desired server among the hundreds of devices on EasyDCIM v1.2.3 (PHP5) and EasyDCIM v1.3.0 (PHP7). Our tests have been carried out on an identical machine with the identical number of devices. Quite a difference, isn't it? On thousands of devices it would have been even greater! Have not seen the latest, turbocharged EasyDCIM v.1.3.0 yet? Visit our website and ask for a free demo version!

Nearly two weeks have passed since we released the latest version of EasyDCIM. How time flies! V1.3.0 is featured with tons of amazing changes, among which full support for PHP 7 is definitely one of the most interesting ones. Heading towards improving Admin Experience in our system, we have begun with a tremendous performance boost. Not to leave that seemingly bold statement in limbo, we have prepared a detailed comparison of various loading times between the current version and the previous one. Grab a cup of hot tea, coffee or anything you like and take a look at hard facts on how much time you will save with new EasyDCIM v1.3.0. Our tests have been carried out on an identical machine with the same measuring methods: DOMContentLoaded and load by MDN. OVH Machine: KVM OpenStack 1 vCore 2,4 GHz 2 GB RAM SSD 10 GB Local Raid 10 Testing Environments: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS + PHP 5.5.9 | 100 servers + 10 switches (all with SNMP support) Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS + PHP 7.0.15 | 100 servers + 10 switches (all with SNMP support)   Table for DOMContentLoadedTable for load Seconds Per Page Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS + PHP 5.5.9 Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS + PHP 7.0.15 Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS + PHP 5.5.9 Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS + PHP 7.0.15 Servers List (10 per page) 5.52 2.08 6.51 3.20 Servers List (20 per page) 6.51 3.54 10.56 5.42 Servers List (50 per page) 14.33 4.12 33.94 9.25 Server Summary Page 2.29 2.18 3.13 2.57 Server Network Interfaces 2.35 1.90 2.90 1.94 Network Devices List (10 per page) 2.57 1.96 6.88 3.34 Dashboard 3.67 2.20 4.12 2.23 Now let's take a glance at the charts below to visualize the magnitude of changes. It is apparent that new EasyDCIM v1.3.0, which fully utilizes the potential of PHP 7, works much faster than its predecessor - v1.2.3. As you can see, in several instances the loading time of pages is even more than two times shorter! What will you do with that extra time saved each day? From now on it is totally up to you!

EasyDCIM - the project which started 3 years ago is now in full blossom! Our system has gained trust of many enterprises and now we stand before you with yet another groundbreaking update. With today's release we would like to jump-start a new direction of EasyDCIM further development. The keyword phrase of this positive change will be called Admin Experience! The release of EasyDCIM v1.3.0 is another milestone in the rapid growth of our control panel. Let's start with the fact that now EasyDCIM fully supports PHP 7! What does it change? Among many other aspects, its performance! Now EasyDCIM works much faster and smoother than ever, reaching even up to 100% performance boost! To prove our bragging is nothing but legit, we will create two separate Blog articles with the comparisons soon :D Another important change in version 1.3.0 is support for another operating system - Debian 8.7 "Jessie" and support for the latest Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS! In EasyDCIM we put strong emphasis on the system's intuitiveness, ease of use and time you have to spend on making the right decisions, performing various actions to control your data center and react to rapidly changing situations. A good piece of software should be fully featured, however simple to use. Time is of the essence and we really want you to make the most of it. Why should you waste it on needless actions that can be automated and simplified? The answer is revealed in EasyDCIM v1.3.0 and our new approach to admin experience - guiding us to the upcoming updates. We will introduce series of changes allowing to automate and manage your whole business with no hassle. How will new EasyDCIM make your daily work more efficient? Starting with freshly added dynamic table columns enabling the selection of exact columns to be displayed - particularly useful for large data volumes. Another novelty is the possibility to display last hour traffic in servers/devices tables and to sort them freely by a chosen parameter. Thanks to this feature, you will no longer miss excessive resource usage or DDoS, and will be able to react accordingly in mere seconds! One of many improvements of such is also an enhanced rack view, enriched with an icon showing the status of a device, so a quick glance at your machines will now be more than enough to check their status. Convenient, isn't it? Just wait until you see the full changelog! Go To Changelog [gallery size="medium" link="file" ids="770,768,769"]

EasyDCIM, a golden opportunity to empower your data center, is the system with a vast number of functionalities. It is not an easy task to thoroughly document every single functionality and usage scenario - but why not give it a shot? A good way to start will be a step-by-step guide on how to capably add device and IPMI configuration in your system. Let's get going right away! If you want to quickly add a device in EasyDCIM then the best choice would be to use the Auto Discovering form. You will find it in the left side menu, unfolding successively 'Services & Devices' → 'Servers' → 'Auto Discovering' tabs. Remember that before adding a device you have to configure SNMP properly on the specific server, so EasyDCIM will be able to connect remotely to the device and download all the necessary information about it. Filling in the form is not something to be done the hard way – you only need to give some details. The first thing to provide is hostname or IP address of the device. Then you select the version of SNMP that is configured on the server and complete the SNMP Public Community field for v1 and v2c. If you are using SNMP v3, the other fields must be filled in as well. After clicking ‘Save Changes’ button, the system will automatically try to connect to a device using SNMP. When the whole process is successful, you will be automatically redirected to a page with a summary of the device: Auto Discovering automatically detects not only basic information about the device but also information about installed parts such as hard drives, RAM or processor. During this process all the network interfaces of the device are also added. Thanks to that the administrator does not have to bind them manually: After a few minutes the system, in the process of pooling, will automatically retrieve additional information about the device, traffic of individual ports and other useful data. All that using SNMP. The server has been added in just a few seconds and the only thing left to do now is the IPMI settings configuration. IPMI protocol allows us to remotely manage a device by performing actions like boot/reboot/shutdown. If the device is of Supermicro or Dell Drac (from version 6) type, we can additionally use the KVM console which is retrieved while using the CURL protocol. To set up a connection to the IPMI, choose ‘Settings’ from the top ‘Actions’ menu: Then, go to the ‘IPMI Settings’ tab and fill the appropriate fields such as IPMI IP Address, IPMI Username, IPMI Password and IPMI Protocol Version. After saving changes, use the ‘Test IPMI Connection’ button to check the connection. And that is basically all. Within a few moments we have added and pre-configured our device. So now we can manage it remotely using IPMI protocol, and also, using SNMP, monitor usage of transfer on specific server ports. Voila! One of the hundreds of EasyDCIM nooks has been just exposed to make your daily experience with our control panel much easier. We hope that you find this little tutorial useful. Shall we do more of these? Feel free to leave a comment below!

Why EasyDCIM is becoming more and more popular? What makes us different? Because we care. We are all ears when it comes to listening to your precious feedback and we bend over backwards to introduce your ideas into our ever-improving system. As a result, we have just released EasyDCIM v1.2.3! The latest edition implements new functionalities oscillating around the aspects like UI, filtering, language, monitors, while many other components of the system have been adjusted and optimized according to your wishes. Without further ado, we heartily invite you to read through our updated changelog! See Changelog [gallery columns="2" size="medium" ids="678,679"]

January is undoubtedly one of busiest months in business all over the world. It is time to analyze and summarize everything that happened during the previous year, but also to move forward with new plans and ideas aimed at ensuring your personal and business development in many fields. It is no different when it comes to EasyDCIM and that is why we also wish to make a good start in 2017 and make this year even more exciting to our customers. What else could we do to spice things up than update our system? Here we go! We are delighted to announce the release of EasyDCIM v1.2.2 with literally tons of new features! The centerpiece of our latest update, as the title of this article indicates, is a completely new client area! The user empowering panel has been enriched with many compelling functionalities, like Two Factor Authentication, remote servers control through IPMI, possibility to install OS on servers with the use of NOC-PS, detailed traffic and usage graphing, rDNS management and more! The admin area of EasyDCIM has been also equipped with many new options, like a dedicated page with a list of services on the backend site, expanded ACL, enhanced general settings enabling extended personalization and as always, several improvements and fixes. Last but not least, we have updated three of our modules. IP Management For EasyDCIM v1.4.0 offers now revamped UI and a couple of fresh options led by possibility to list and manage IP addresses assigned to particular devices. Switch Management For EasyDCIM v1.2.0 has undergone a total remake and is now featured with many new components, like switch locations map, new views, aggregate statistics, summary graphs and more. PDU Management For EasyDCIM v1.0.1 brings up the rear with added support for PDU devices of E3METER brand. We are sure that you are going to love these changes. Check out our gallery to get a sneak peek at the next generation of EasyDCIM client area before you see it live in action on your own! [gallery columns="4" ids="616,617,618,619,620,630,621,629"] Looks interesting? Note that this is not everything! Visit our website and check the complete changelog to discover the full spectrum of modifications. To Changelog If you already use EasyDCIM v1.2.1 or earlier then feel free to contact us and we will help you with the update or even handle it for you. Ask our Team about special 25% discount! The offer expires on Mar 1st ,2017.

We would like to start this beautiful December month with the release of the next version of our control panel and all-in-one solution for completely automated dedicated servers provisioning and data center management. The latest EasyDCIM v1.2.1 has been enriched with several handy improvements and the brand new module! From now on, you will be able to easily translate the language of the entire system! For more information, feel free to visit our documentation and check out the Translations section. Among several interesting enhancements and novelties applied in version 1.2.1, the most important is definitely a fresh module - PDU Management For EasyDCIM. As its name indicates, the module will enable you to maintain full control over your PDU devices. In a nutshell, it will allow you to remotely control your outlets and analyze their performance. As always, our Blog articles only highlight the most significant changes of each release, therefore we cordially invite you to find out more about the latest EasyDCIM on our website! Go To Changelog