1. Active Infrastructure Technical Overview
Everything you need to know to install Dell Active Infrastructure Solutions

2. Channel Partner Pilot Active Infrastructure overview

3. What is converged infrastructure?
Converged infrastructure systems combine compute, storage, networking, and infrastructure management into an integrated system to provide general purpose, virtualized resource pools for applications, VDI and private clouds
VI/OS
Servers
Storage
Network
Compute
Unified Sys Mgmt
and Automation
Network
Procure &
Integrate
Legacy
Systems
Mgmt
Virtual Infrastructure & OS
Storage
Platform Centric (generic workloads) Or
Application Centric
(complex workloads)
Before we get started, it’s important to set a baseline for how we define Converged Infrastructure. Converged infrastructure systems combine compute, storage, networking, and infrastructure management into an integrated system that provides general purpose virtualized resource pools for applications, VDI and private clouds.
It’s also important to take a look at how infrastructure solutions are currently built. IT’s focus is also on the infrastructure itself, rather than the applications that ride on top of it, creating a situation where applications are performing poorly or inefficiently. Most large infrastructure solutions today are custom built from multiple vendors, meaning separate server, storage, networking, virtualization, and systems management teams each purchase infrastructure and software that works best for them, with minimal input from other teams. In many of these customers, IT architecture teams have been built to ensure teams are collaborating so that the individual areas can be better integrated when the infrastructure gets rolled out. Despite these team’s best efforts, the result is oftentimes a fragmented and sub-optimized infrastructure. In scenarios where the infrastructure is designed in advance, architecture teams or expensive consultants must gather requirements across the organization, design a solution that meets all the teams’ needs, procure the infrastructure, integrate the infrastructure, and then test/tune it to ensure it works well, resulting in an incredibly slow and inefficient process.
In addition to these challenges, the current model is also incredibly inefficient from a solution management perspective. Current organizations, processes, and tools create inefficiencies including:
Expensive and highly qualified admin resources are needed for mundane, non-strategic tasks
Agility in minimized because of the manual interactions required for cross-domain activities
Complexity rules as systems built to work in silos are put together, oftentimes through virtualization, creating technical and organizational havoc
Converged infrastructure changes this dynamic, by creating application centric, integrated resource pools that drive efficiency and agility. Convergence:
Collapses and automates critical administrative tasks to speed up routine tasks and free up experts for higher order needs.
It also replaces silos with policy-based automation, which speeds workload deployments and improve accuracy while minimizing routine tasks
Reduce operational costs for virtual infrastructure and underlying hardware
These integrated systems also make it easier and faster to roll out new infrastructure:
Single source of procurement
Single source of support
Up and running in less than 2 weeks
Lower total cost of ownership
Domain Centric
SI led: multiple components / vendors
Time consuming (Months)
Expensive
People intensive
Single source of procurement
Turnkey: up in less than 2 weeks
Lower total cost of ownership
Single point of support
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4. Converged Infrastructure Virtual Infrastructure
Enabling a Simpler IT Operational Model Converged infrastructure collapses and automates critical administrative tasks to speed up routine tasks and free up experts for higher order needs
Challenge
Solution
Storage
Server
Network
Converged Infrastructure
Virtual Infrastructure
Compute Capacity
Network Access
Storage Capacity
Server
Network
Task s
Challenge: Roadblocks to infrastructure agility & efficiency IT infrastructure operations have always crossed domain boundaries … but virtualization has amplified these interactions.
Current tools do not comprehend the changing operational roles in IT
Server admins have evolved into virtualization admins but they have to do more with less
Expensive & highly qualified administrators doing mundane tasks
Domain administrators are being kept away from higher value and more strategic activities
Reduced responsiveness due to existing manual processes
Time is wasted waiting on resources and people due to cross- domain dependencies
Solution: Convergence provides automation to drive efficiency & agility Convergence collapses and automates critical administrative tasks to speed up routine tasks and free up experts for higher order needs.
Replace domain silos policy-based automation. Reduce operational costs for virtual infrastructure and underlying hardware
Refocus domain admins on higher-value tasks. Speed workload deployments and improve accuracy while minimizing routine tasks
Support existing management processes. Augment existing tooling to gain great efficiency and agility without rip-and-replace
Policies & Visibility
Storage
Virtualization
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5. Competitive choices are:
How is Dell positioned in the market? Converged IT benefits without the tradeoffs
Spectrum of IT’s choices for converged solutions
Competitive choices are:
Dell’s approach is:
Inflexible
Intuitive
Flexible
Comprehensive
Incomplete or
The market for converged solutions has formed over the past few years and offers customers a spectrum of choices.
However there are limitations…
First, some competitive solutions are inflexible & incomplete
Proprietary architectures offered by competitors like Cisco lock customers into an architecture that may be difficult to disaggregate over time; they are built to operate in a single way and may not support all customer needs or integrate with existing management offerings in a clear or simple manner. This architecture is meant to protect lucrative networking revenue streams.
Incomplete - lack key elements such as integrated storage or support for physical infrastructures (non-virtual, which still exist in many customer environments).
Next there are offerings that are either complex and/or expensive.
Complex in that they are hard to implement, integrate, and use, or that require multiple tools that don’t integrate to address key customer requirements.
Also expensive, both individually and as more products are needed both the initial costs and ongoing support/maintenance costs (e.g. licensing, training) can add up.
Dell is different…
First, Dell provides Simple solutions…
Simple – Dell has a history of extensively involving customers in tools development allowing us to develop tools that are intuitive to learn and easy to keep using.  Our focus on x86 solutions also allows us to develop product and solutions without competing priorities that oftentimes force development compromises.
Flexible - because Dell offers many solutions are interoperable with your existing infrastructure hardware and management investments…
Comprehensive – Dell offers comprehensive solutions, complete with servers, storage, networking, and management; all delivered with unified one-call support
Dell allows customers to get the benefits of CI without the burdensome tradeoffs.
Complex
Dell overcomes these limitations
Expensive
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6. Automation of converged and heterogeneous infrastructure and workloads
The Dell Active Infrastructure portfolio Flexible delivery models for virtualized infrastructure and solutions
Active Solutions
Architectures
Pre-engineered with best practices for support of specific number of users
Private Clouds
Active System Manager 7
Automation of converged and heterogeneous infrastructure and workloads
Enterprise Applications
Virtual Desktop Infrastructures
Pre-integrated Systems Pre-assembled infrastructure + deployment services
Active System 800
vStart 50/200/1000
Increasing value and faster time to production
Active System Reference Architectures
Pre-engineered with best practices for specific virtualization use cases
VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization
The Active Infrastructure portfolio is provides of a number of flexible means of adoption.
At the base is the new Active System. Active System is a converged infrastructure framework that has been 1) developed to enable IT to rapidly respond, maximize efficiency and strengthen IT service quality and has been 2) tested and validated for interoperability as defined by the Active System Compatibility Matrix and 3) is managed by the Active System Manager. The minimum valid configuration includes a single M1000e blade chassis, PowerEdge 12th generation 10GbE blade servers, and dual PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator modules.
For customer seeking greater guidance and value from Dell, we offer a series of Active System Architectures. These are pre-engineered architectures that provide best practice guidance for specific virtualization use case using a combination of Dell servers, storage, and networking and includes configuration and deployment guides
Pre-integrated Active Systems provide the highest value and fastest time to production. They are based on an Active System Architecture and come fully pre-assembled and pre-tested with all of the rack infrastructure and include the necessary enterprise deployment services to get the system ready for production in a customer’s environment.
Lastly, Dell offers a series of Active Solution Architectures for a private cloud, application, or VDI implementation on a pre-integrated Active System or a Active System Architecture. These architectures are pre-engineered to provide best practices to implement these solutions for specific ranges of users and workloads.
Regardless of how a customer chooses to deploy an Active System, the infrastructure is holistically managed by the Active System Manager, an intuitive and automated tool of the most common administrative tasks. Future version will provide workload management capabilities as well as third-party platform support. These capabilities will initially be offered with the pre-integrated Active Systems and vStart models.
Active System Compatibility Matrix
Tested and validated for interoperability
12G blades
M1000e chassis
I/O Aggregator
Dell Storage1
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7. Active System Overview and ASM 7.0 Demo

8. Dell Active System Overview An integrated offering that is simple, flexible, and comprehensive
traditional or distributed core 1
Modular Infrastructure
Leading power & cooling efficiency & compute density
Open systems - 2S/4S blades
Blade-based SAN option
Includes embedded failsafe hypervisors
core networking
services
core/aggregation/access
top-of-rack switch (3rd party or Dell Force10) 3 2
Simplified Chassis IOM
10 GbE intra-chassis, east-west traffic
Simplified PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator
Feature rich Force10 MXL (future)
Capable of multiples physical fabrics
iSCSI SAN
I/O Aggregators
FC SAN
server/
virtualization/
CI admin 2 1 3
Converged Fabric
DCB for iSCSI and FCoE
Compatible with 3rd party DC fabric
Dell Active System 4 4
Converged Management
Unified operations for infrastructure teams
Automated, template-based infrastructure provisioning and workload automation
Now that we’ve talked a bit about Thunderbolt 800, let’s look under the hood at the underlying architecture.
Modular Foundation
Thunderbolt 800 starts with a modular foundation. This foundation starts with PowerEdge blade servers, available in 1/4, ½ , and full height blades. This bladed infrastructure minimizes the possibility of incorrect cabling of a server to other components, simplifying up front integration, and delivering enhanced system quality downstream. Dell blade infrastructure also provide industry leading power & cooling efficiency, minimizing ongoing operating expenses.
Dell is also changing server networking with the PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator, which is designed to simplify blade chassis networking by pushing advanced networking features to the top of rack switch. It is purpose built for a server administrator with simple deployment and management tools. It is capable of handling a converged SAN/LAN fabric, and can facilitate east/west chassis traffic with 10GbE throughput.
In addition to the bladed infrastructure and simple IOM, Dell promotes a converged SAN/LAN fabric as a to improve overall system efficiency. Converged fabric is an ideal in the Thunderbolt framework, meaning we also support separate fabrics for those customers requiring this option.
Converged Management
Orchestrating this underlying foundation is Dell’s Converged Management tool, Skyhawk. Key to Thunderbolt, Skyhawk is an intelligent and intuitive converged infrastructure manager. DSM leverages templates to automate infrastructure set-up, which greatly simplifies and speeds up the process, and also greatly reduces errors associated with manual set-up. The result is better infrastructure quality with fewer configuration errors that can be costly.
End to End Experience 
Dell takes our modular infrastructure and converged management (Intellectual Property) and packages it in a way that provides an end to end experience for customers. This might mean supplying pre-validated components out of the Dell Thunderbolt Solution Matrix, providing guidance via our reference architectures, or delivering a pre-integrated offering that is optimized, pre-built, and deployed onsite with turnkey services. Each of these models is provided by a single vendor, enabling a single point of accountability.
M1000e blade chassis
Active System Manager
EqualLogic/Compellent/FS* 5
End-to-end experience
End-to-end design, test, & validation
Single point of accountability
Dell storage integration
Complete lifecycle services
Pre-integrated system available direct
core storage/data mgmt services
storage
fibre channel switches (3rd party or Dell) 5
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9. Active System Manager 7.0 Unified Infrastructure Operations for Infrastructure Teams
Streamline and standardize workload deployments through centralized capture and application of best practices & operational steps
Multi-tier automation across physical (server, storage and network) and virtual layers
Template-Based Provisioning
End-To-End Automation
Discovery, inventory, configuration, provisioning, and ongoing management of physical and virtual infrastructure
Intelligent workflow orchestration engine for rapid physical and virtual workload provisioning
Infrastructure Lifecycle Mgmt
Workload Orchestration
Here we cover the 6 main capabilities of the [Dell CI] Manager
Create and manage physical and virtual resource pools; efficiently schedule or allocate resources on-demand
Intuitive centralized, role-based management and access through self-service web portal VM
Resource Pooling & Dynamic Allocation
Centralized
Management
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10. PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator Plug-n-play connectivity for M1000e blade chassis
Simple and easy way for server or virtual admins to connect blade servers
Clean physical separation between network and server administrators
Zero touch, automated configuration
No networking complexities such as spanning tree
Virtualization drives simple I/O module connectivity
No compromises on performance: intra-chassis, east-west 10 GbE traffic with low latency
Faster Deployments
Top of Rack switch
(including 3rd party)
Top of Rack switch
(including 3rd party)
VLT or MLAG
Network Admin
Server Admin
Link aggregation group
Link aggregation group
In addition to Skyhawk, Dell developed the PowerEdge I/O Aggregator to enable our Converged Infrastructure offering. PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator is designed to simplify blade chassis networking by pushing advanced networking features to the top of rack switch. It is purpose built for a server administrator with simple deployment and management tools, and is capable of handling a converged SAN/LAN fabric. Additionally, it can facilitate east/west chassis traffic with 10GbE throughput.
M1000e
blade chassis
Dual IOAs
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11. Design & Deploy Using a Pre-Integrated Solution for faster time to market
Enterprise-class infrastructure
Active Solutions
Private Cloud
reference architectures
Applications reference architectures
VDI reference architectures
Compute: PowerEdge Blades/ Rack Servers
Storage: Compellent/ EqualLogic
Networking: Force10/ PowerConnect
Industry leading hypervisor options
Helpful Extras Included
Approximate pricing:
vStart 50 - $50K-$62K
vStart $100K
vStart $169K
Active System $350K-$600K
vStart $400K-$800K
vStart 50
vStart
100/200
Active System 800
vStart
Infrastructure management integration plug-ins
System deployment & unified support
Flexible configuration options
Simple
Value based
Optimized for simple app environments: file & print, virtual Infra, DNS, web servers
Flexible rack configuration
Mainstream storage functionality
Optimized for Mid- Range Apps (VDI, Web, Collaboration)
Scale-out storage and scalable compute
Unified iSCSI fabric for lower TCO
Optimized for consolidated Apps (VDI, Web, Collab)
Extremely scalable compute & storage
Enterprise class fiber Channel storage
Optimized for complex Apps (ERP, DB, Oracle)
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12. Design & Deploy Leveraging a Dell Solution Reference Architecture
Private Cloud
Dell Private Cloud
Microsoft System Center 2012 Fast Track
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
End-to-end solution (Wyse thin clients)
Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View
Collaboration
Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Microsoft Lync 2010
Microsoft Exchange 2010
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13. Dell Active Infrastructure Competitive Review

14. Competitive Landscape
Franchises
App
System
PureApplication
(PureSystem)
Exadata
Application
Centric
AS 800*
vBlock
VirtualSystem* CloudSystem*
PureFlex (PureSystem)
Pre-Integrated
Vertical Integration
vStart Platform RA
FlexPOD
VSPEX
Reference Architecture
M1000E Family
UCS
Blade
System
Standalone
Infrastructure + Application Aware
Blade/Switch +Storage + Virtualization
Blade/Switch +Storage
Blade/Switch
Horizontal Integration
* Also available as reference architectures
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15. Key technical proof points (claims)
Why does it matter?
Leading power efficiency and density
Better power and cooling = lower TCO
Design differentiation
Flexible blade fabric design
Meet different customers’ needs
Converged fabric for simplicity
Segregated for security/performance
Intra-chassis networking (east-west traffic)
All traffic doesn’t have to go to TOR
Port count, cables, bandwidth limit
Single point of accountability
Simpler, easier and more complete support
Fast time to deployment
Leverage direct model and factory for direct ship. Quicker time to value
Common infrastructure management
Single tool designed to perform day to day tasks across infrastructure
Complementary IT Consulting and Managed Services
Cloud, virtualization, and app migration consulting
Data center and app modernization
Dell enterprise public cloud
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16. Competitive Objection Handling
Speed Bump
Why does it matter to customer?
How to deflect
Scalable chassis network design (FI)
2 FIs support up to 40 (20) chassis
No intra-chassis capability
Scale limits (non-linear)
ASM is out of the data path, no hard limits to scalability
FEX
Networking team insists on all Cisco networking
Advocate IOA
Can connect to Cisco TOR
Same issues as above
End-to-end FCoE network
No single source and support model
Diablo coming in Q2FY14
Leverage your existing Nexus investment
More management features
Appearance that another tool does more if they expose more settings
Dell focused on day to day needs, has tools for deep mgmt
ASM is workload deployment and orchestration, as well as infra
No stacking for IOA
Simplify management and reduce # of switches in environment
Mgmt complexity masked by Active Systems Manager
Use VLT/stacking for active-active at TOR
Stacking can create downtime
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17. Competitive Objection Handling
Speed Bump
Why does it matter to customer?
How to deflect
Need full chassis switch
Need advanced networking features: routing, spanning trees, QoS
Explore real need; leverage ToR
MXL supported in ASM 7.1
Want Brocade/ PowerConnect chassis switch
Leverage existing investments
Native FC
Need advanced networking
Minimize networking complexity in chassis to allow single admin
IOA will support native FC out
See above
Piece part management licensing; not “free”
Cisco UCSM is “free” and doesn’t need separate infrastructure (runs “pre-installed” on the FI)
Don’t want proprietary HW; leverage VM technology
Cost is scaled to usage, no upfront costs for mgmt
Their cost is buried in port costs
No limitation to scalability by port count/bandwidth of FI
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18. How does this stack up to UCS?
Template based provisioning and orchestration
No ToR switch dependency
No hard scalability limitation
Up to 160GbE LAG uplink PER IOA
Provides East/West traffic within a chassis
Single Point of management for server, server and virtual networking, storage, and virtualization/workload provisioning
Profile based provisioning
Dependent on Fabric Interconnect
Scales to 160 Servers
Up to 80GbE LAG uplink per FI
All traffic must go north/south
Single point of management for server and server networking
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19. Dell Active System Manager Technical Deep Dive

20. Extended Dell Software & Services
Announcing: Enhanced capabilities to unify infrastructure & application/IT service delivery
Application & IT Service Delivery
Deployment, orchestration & lifecycle management combined with engineered application solutions
Extended Dell Software & Services
Dell’s Active Infrastructure family is enhanced with the new Active System Manager 7.0
Integrates IP from Gale Technologies acquisition (Nov )
Adds workload deployment and virtual infrastructure provisioning and management capabilities
Included in the Active System in US in late February and in EMEA in late spring
Integrated Infrastructure
Flexible pre-engineered systems of compute, storage, networking and intuitive infrastructure management
Integrated Systems
Compute, storage, networking and intuitive infrastructure management
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21. Accelerating Active System Manager
VM/OS deployment/lifecycle management 1
ASM 1.0 scope
Virtual infrastructure: hypervisor deployment, cluster creation/add, virtual switch configuration 2
Original ASM roadmap
Blade IOM
Dell Storage Capacity Provisioning 3
Additional ASM capability
Blade Chassis/ Blade servers
Main Points:
ASM 1.0, aka Skyhawk focused on managing chassis and IO module hardware
Storage, Network, and hypervisor/VM management were further out in the roadmap
We have achieved these same roadmap capabilities, months ahead of schedule, with ASM 7.0 and the acquisition of Gale
Dell ToR
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22. Active System Manager Terminology
Clients
ASM Appliance
IT Resources
Admin
Portal
Design and Automate
Resource Adapters
Network
Web
Portal
Scheduling and Reservation
Servers
Physical / Virtual
Main Points:
ASM deployed as a VM on ESXi
Resource Adapters are like interpreters between the ASM server and the resources it manages.
Modularity of the resource adapters - resource adapters give us the ability to quickly integrate the management of new technologies into the ASM framework.
Admin portal vs. web portal. Third party software can leverage the ASM 7 platform via API calls
Integration and Scripting
Storage
APIs
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23. Dell Active System Manager 7.0 Workload Management
Define workload with ASM 7.0 and apply to infrastructure pool
Lync
Server 2012
Workload
MS SQL
Server 2012
Workload
VDI
Workload
Main Points:
Traditional datacenter classifies compute, network, storage in to 3 separated buckets
ASM 7.0 treats these components as a single resource pool vs independent element management
We can now design, apply, and manage workloads to the entire infrastructure
Workload = an application or a group of applications to achieve a business outcome
Infrastructure Pool
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24. Dell Active System Manager 7.0 Demo

25. ! Receiving the job SUBJECT: Job request #1035
DATE: Tue, Dec. 3, :01pm
TO: John I.T.
FROM: Anna Developer
2x Web Apache
1x My SQL
NEEDS:
Friday 18:00
START TIME:
END TIME:
Sunday 18:00
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26. … Scheduling the job Templates Apache ESXi Host Lync MySQL Oracle
Microsoft Exchange
MySQL
Oracle
SharePoint
SAP
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27. … Scheduling the job Schedule Job #1033 Job #1034 ASAP Job #1035
Friday 6 Dec 2013
Saturday 7 Dec 2013
Sunday 8 Dec 2013
Job #1033
Job #1034 …
Schedule
ASAP
Job #1035
ASAP within fixed timeframe
Fixed start and end date
Start
6/9/2013 — 18:00
Permanent session
End
8/9/2013 — 18:00
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28. Executing the job
Job #1035
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29. Allocating resources and deploying application
Job #1035
(2) Web Apache
Network
(1) MySQL
Compute pool
vLAN pool
Storage pool
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30. Friday, Dec 6th Job #1035 Confidential (2) Web Apache Network
(1) MySQL
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31. Saturday, Dec 7th Job #1035 Confidential (2) Web Apache Network
(1) MySQL
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32. Sunday, Dec 8th Job #1035 Confidential (2) Web Apache Network
(1) MySQL
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33. Resources returned to the pool
Job #1035
(2) Web Apache
Network
(1) MySQL
Compute pool
vLAN pool
Storage pool
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35.  Managing resources … the old way Server Manager Network Manager
Storage Manager 
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36. Active System Manager in action
iDRAC 7
Disks
Reports
Summary
IT Center
Username
Password
Domain
iDRAC 7
Active System Manager 7.0
Launch iDRAC
Servers
Network
Storage
John_IT
**********
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37. Active System Manager in action
Set Performance
Snapshot
Servers
Network
Storage
System Info
Volume Access
Volume Clone
Volume Assign
Volume Restrict
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39. Active System Manager 7.0 Setup and Discovery
Admin/Architect
Client
Active System Manager 7.0 Setup and Discovery
Discover Active Systems and associated components
Populate inventory
Populate software file repositories
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40. Active System Manager 7.0 Inventory Management
Admin/Architect
Client
Active System Manager 7.0 Inventory Management
View, edit, and manage inventory elements and their properties
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41. Active System Manager 7.0 Operations Center
Admin/Architect
Client
Active System Manager 7.0 Operations Center
View status, perform actions, and invoke commands on all Active System elements and subsystems, including virtualization managers
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42. Active System Manager 7.0 Template Editor
Admin/Architect
Client
Active System Manager 7.0 Template Editor
Build physical infrastructure templates, and physical or virtual workload templates using visual drag- and-drop template editor
Use or edit pre- built, out-of-the-box templates
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43. Active System Manager 7.0 Template with Orchestration Editor
Admin/Architect
Client
Active System Manager 7.0 Template with Orchestration Editor
For advanced template provisioning, use the orchestration editor to create end-to-end provisioning workflows for compute, network, and storage elements
Sequence provisioning, configuration, even power control
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44. Active System Manager 7.0 Session Dashboard
Admin/Architect
Client
Active System Manager 7.0 Session Dashboard
View all active and scheduled infrastructure and workload deployments at a glance
See who is using what resources, for how long
Invoke commands, launch applications or element managers from a single view
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45. Active System Manager 7.0 Template Library
Web Portal
Client
Active System Manager 7.0 Template Library
Web Portal provides a library or catalog of both infrastructure and workload templates that have been created and published by the admin or architect
Authorized users can view, schedule, or deploy published templates
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46. Active System Manager 7.0 Reporting
Web Portal
Client
Active System Manager 7.0 Reporting
Standard and custom reports are available for usage and utilization, capacity, inventory, and other functions
Data export is available for showback, chargeback, or other purposes
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47. AI Online resources and links Feel free to include in blogs & Twitter
Dell PartnerDirect Portal:
Recommended GCC training Courses
Online Sales Training:
AIPS1012WBTS - Active Infrastructure Channel Sales Overview
VSRT0511WBTS - vStart Sales Overview
DBSS0109WBTS - Dell Blade Server Solutions (12G)
Online Technical Training:
DBSSTT0409WBTT - Dell Blade Server Solutions
Blogs on Dell properties: All current & future blogs aggregate here: dellcitag
Dell Tech Center: New Active Infrastructure wiki page with whiteboarding videos bit.ly/DTCconverged
Twitter: Use #DellCI with all relevant tweets
for updates and other info to retweet
Dell.com/convergence: Converged Infrastructure landing page
Virtual Press Kit: The full press release and event information will be on dell.to/DoMoreIT
YouTube videos
Title
YouTube channel
Converged Infrastructure Point of View "Enable an efficient and agile data center infrastructure with Dell
Enabling infrastructure convergence without compromise with Dell Active Infrastructure
Introducing the preintegrated Active System 800
Four key attributes required to maximize value from convergence
Introduction to Dell Active System Manager (Whiteboarding)
Topology and Architecture Options for Dell Active System (Whiteboarding)
Using the PowerEdge M IO Aggregator for Converged Networking (Whiteboarding)
Dell’s difference by design
Active System 800
(You can use this photo externally)
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