On-premises infrastructure has always appeared expensive. What it rarely has been is transparent.
Opactiv discovers your data centre estate, applies a configurable TCO model, and brings those costs into the same analytics platform as your cloud spend.
Appearances can be deceiving; balancing physical and virtual infrastructure based on real cost data leads to meaningful savings.
Discovery leverages the protocols you already use – no agents, no manual inventory imports.
SSH extracts system metadata for Linux/Unix hosts; Redfish taps modern BMC telemetry; IPMI ensures legacy coverage.
Each server record includes manufacturer, model, serial number, CPU, memory, power draw, rack location, purchase metadata, and warranty status.
SNMP v2c/v3 discovery with vendor-specific MIBs captures identity, firmware, port counts, and interface statistics for Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Dell, Extreme, MikroTik, Ubiquiti, and more.
Network hardware receives first-class TCO treatment alongside compute.
Vendor APIs (NetApp ONTAP, Dell EMC Unity, Pure Storage) provide array identity, firmware, capacity, pool configuration, and RAID topology.
Opactiv constructs per-hour cost figures for each asset by combining depreciation, power, and maintenance.
- Depreciation - straight-line calculation using purchase price, salvage value, and useful life
- Power - live consumption from Redfish/IPMI multiplied by configurable electricity rates
- Maintenance - support contracts amortised to hourly rates
Parameters are configurable per asset, and historical expenses recalculate automatically when inputs change.
Hypervisor host TCO is allocated to VMs based on vCPU share, giving teams workload-level accountability.
Hosts are not double-charged; only the host’s TCO flows into VM allocations.
Data centre assets feed into pool allocation, ownership attribution, and daily time-series analytics alongside AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS data.
Unified spend views, optimization recommendations, and budget policies now span both cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
Named credential profiles cover SSH, Redfish, IPMI, SNMPv2c/v3, WMI, VMware vSphere, Proxmox, and REST APIs for storage arrays.
Profiles map to IP ranges so discovery automatically uses the right protocol/credentials for each portion of the estate.
By costing on-prem hardware with the same rigour as cloud resources, infrastructure decisions become data-driven.
Depreciation cliffs, power-intensive equipment, and underutilised capacity become visible line items, not vague assumptions.
Opactiv brings cloud-grade financial clarity to your physical infrastructure.
