dell virtual integrated system (vis) architecture overview

Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Architecture

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•High flexibility•Optimized IT mgmt time•Lower capital expenditures

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Virtual era success requires focus on people & processes, not just technology

Efficiency = High Flexibility, Low Capital Expenditures and Optimized IT Management Time

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Processes

Technology

Peoplewith Control

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What if…

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What if you could respond to business requests in minutes?

What if you could transform IT infrastructure but leverage the skills and investments you already have?

What if you could make your entire IT environment as dynamic using flexible infrastructure?

What if you could have a single solution that deploys workloads on physical and virtual resources?

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Dell Delivers Through Key Tenets

Open Architecture

Leverage current and future investments in heterogeneous technology, people and processes, without sacrificing integration.Heterogeneous, Future

Proof

IntegratedLinking the heterogeneous components of the data center ecosystem, removing unneeded steps, licensing and consoles.

Integrating the Ecosystem

AutomatedAutomating entire data center ecosystem, improving consistency, control and dramatically affecting the time and resources needed.End-to-End Automation

Which Gives Customers

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Choice• Choose your pace• Choose your

technology• Choose to leverage

existing investments in technology, people and process

Improved ROI

Flexibility• Mix heterogeneous

components• Integrate physical and virtual

environments• Integrate with custom

processes, tools and applications

Right-sized Solution, Every time

Agility• Automating standard

and repetitive tasks• Consolidating tools and

consoles• Managing ecosystem

holisticallyRespond to Business

Faster

Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Architecture

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Intelligent Hardware

Dell Intelligent Infrastructure

Dell Delivery Center

Simple catalog-based self-service and automatic deployment of workloads

End-to-end infrastructure management and planning

Rapid deployment of compute, storage and networking resources

Dynamic Resource Management

Automated Workload Deployment

Performance Mgmt and Planning

Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM)

VIS Self-Service Creator

VIS Director


INFLEXIBILITYVariable workloads =

sub-optimized capacity

TIMEProvisioning infrastructure

takes too long

The challenges

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HETEROGENEITY Multi-vendor, physical and virtual

WASTEOver provisioning & unused assets

The solution

Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM)

A single management point for physical and virtual

resources that accelerates provisioning of

heterogeneous hardware while providing a highly dynamic and flexibility

environment.

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Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM)

Highly Available

Automatically and intelligently redeploys workloads across the infrastructure

Dynamically allocate servers, network connectivity and storage access

Unified control for today’s heterogeneous data centers

Move workloads between various makes/models of servers and Hypervisors

Deploy servers from pallet to production in minutes

Workload Mobility,

P2V and V2P

Multi-vendor Support

Shared Infrastructure

Workload Mobility,

P2P

Dynamic and Rapid Server Deployment

Move workloads seamlessly between physical servers and virtual machines

A single management point for physical and virtual resources that accelerates provisioning of heterogeneous hardware while providing a highly dynamic and flexibility environment.

Capacity Planning &

Trend Analytics

Cost Allocation

Dependency Mapping

Self-service Portal

Automatic Workload

Provisioning

Resource Tiering and

Pooling

Infrastructure

Provisioning


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MANUAL PROCESSES Workload requests. approvals &

provisioning

PACE OF BUSINESSScale & rate of change

SERVICE EXPECTATIONSUsers demand instant workloads

CONTROLGovernance, compliance costs

The challenges

The solution

Dell VIS Self-Service Creator

Providing IT users the power to deploy and manage

their resources while enabling IT to respond faster to business requests and

improve control over IT environments.

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Dell VIS Self-Service Creator

Automatic Provisioning

Automated, policy-driven delivery of IT compute resources

Role-based access to resource deployment within dedicated infrastructure pool

Automatically reclaim underutilized or abandoned resources

Multi-vendor solution support across the ecosystem, hardware, hypervisor, mgmt sw

Role-based access for users to manage their resources throughout their lifecycle

Workload Templates

Sprawl Control

Group-based Reservation

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Heterogeneous Ecosystem

Self-service Portal

Pre-packaged process automation workflows, tailor without code changes

Providing IT users the power to deploy and manage their resources while enabling IT to respond faster to business requests and improve control over IT environments.

Capacity Planning &

Trend Analytics

Cost Allocation

Dependency Mapping

Self-service Portal

Automatic Workload

Provisioning


Pooling

Infrastructure

Provisioning


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PREDICTING PROBLEMSIncreased cost and delays associated

with finding and fixing problems

ACCURATE PLANNINGInability to keep up with capacity

and performance requirements

TRANSPARENCYInability to provide transparency in a

dynamic environment

The challenges

The solution

Dell VIS DirectorIT operations hub

for your virtual environment providing an intuitive view of the dependencies between

physical and virtual environments. Comprehensive

trend analysis, predictive reporting and cost

analytics giving greater level of visibility into IT

environment.

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Dell VIS Director

Trend AnalysisUnderstand performance and utilization trends to help with future planning

Identifies issues and resource contentions to help speed mean-time-to-resolution

Tracks utilization, costs and ROI for specific configuration and consumption models

Intuitive view of infrastructure dependencies

Alerts

Cost Analytics

“What-if” Planning

Detailed View of

Infrastructure

Scenario modeling to support resource planning and impact analysis

Capacity Planning &

Trend Analytics

Cost Allocation

Dependency Mapping

Self-service Portal

Automatic Workload

Provisioning


Pooling

Infrastructure

Provisioning

IT operations hub for your virtual environment providing an end-to-end view of infrastructure dependencies and relationships. Comprehensive set trend analysis, predictive reporting and cost analytics giving greater level of visibility into IT environment.

Value Proposition

VIS Value Proposition

Process

Technology

People

Addresses IT inefficiencies end-to-end

Removes IT from the critical path for certain end-user

requests

Streamlines automation of common

tasks

Supports heterogeneous environments and existing

infrastructure deployments

Lower capital costs + superior impact on

operational costs

Freedom to Choose

Comprehensive

Respond Faster

Increase IT Productivity

Lower IT Costs

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