This article discusses the DRAC functionality and integration into an existing enterprise environment. System administrators face the challenge of balancing high-availability servers with administrative expense. Within every organization these topologies can be mutually exclusive, or more commonly, combined to make up the total enterprise. The data center has many IT personnel with diverse specialization. Although the data center allows for centralized management, rarely is the IT staff huddled around their resources.
Productivity dictates that they roam the campus solving business-critical issues.
In addition, data centers do not address the issue of remote management in circumstances with major systems failure. If the servers are not on-site, the only solution available to deal with server failure is to go to the site and fix it. DRAC effectively addresses both of these issues. Managing the regional servers produces costly travel expenses as well as lost productivity. In this scenario, DRAC allows for remote management across geographic boundaries without travel to regional offices.