Simplify Systems ManagementDeploy, Virtualize, Manage, Maintain, and Automate with the OpenManage Suite

David Schmidt, Director, OpenManage Product Management Session SV4

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What’s impacting productivity in your IT environment?

Manual approaches to delivering IT services take too long

Legacy-equipped data centers are often complex, inefficient and costly to manage

Proliferation of management tools impacts ability to isolate and resolve IT issues

We’ve heard these challenges expressed frequently in our conversations with thousands of customers.

Simplifying Management is Key Priority

Common Management Paradigms

We frequently do some management locally at the server

We manage primarily from a central console

We manage primarily using scripts

Operation

Converged, Service Lifecycle, and Private Cloud

Integration

Change Management

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

HW Configuration &

Deployment

“We monitor servers based on amber lights”

“We have a team that does rack/stack/deploy”

“We’ve been burned by failure events in the past – we need a console that provides comprehensive monitoring”

“We operate at scale – need something automated within our ops framework

“I need alerts integrated into my current monitoring architecture –MS, BMC, etc”

“We just work right at the server”

“API’s are mandatory, don’t show me something in the GUI if it can’t be automated”

“We need to build our ops to be OS agnostic”

“We bring our systems down and do updates at the server.”

“We need simple, automated server deployment through a console”

“We need a console that enables us to provide scalable, reliable, consistent, and efficient IT services.”

“We need non-disruptive mechanisms for BIOS and firmware updates.”

Dell systems management strategy

Deliver open, standards-based IT management solutions for maximum flexibility and choice

Simplify and automate repetitive, manual tasks for greater agility and efficiency

Provide a unified, intuitive user experience simplifying management across the data center Taking the complexity out of

data center management

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customer benefitSuperior

• Spend less time maintaining and more time innovating

• Leverage existing IT investments

• Utilize a single interface to manage infrastructure and applications

• Increase responsiveness to evolving business needs

Lifecycle approach to systems management

iDRAC with Lifecycle

Controller

embedded server management

The Basics – Server Management

Managing The Individual Server Managing Updates

Managing At Scale

The Basics – Server ManagementOne x Many Management Consoles

OpenManage Essentials, Active System Manager, Chassis Management Controller,OpenManage Power Center

Integrations for 3rd Party Consoles: Microsoft, VMware, BMC Software

Dell Services Managed Services, ProSupport Plus Services with SupportAssist

Connections for 3rd Party Consoles: CA, HP, IBM, Oracle, Nagios

Server ManagementiDRAC with Lifecycle Controller,

OpenManage Server Administrator, Deployment Toolkit, OpenManage Mobile

Update Tools and Utilities Repository Manager, Server

Update Utility

The industry’s first, and ONLY, completely agent-free systems management solution

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• Embedded server management

• Millions of servers deployed

• Tier 1 console integration

• Minimize errors, increase uptime

• Automate management tasks

• Utilize real-time storage management without agents

• Deploy servers with zero-touch automation

• Comprehensive firmware updates

iDRAC with Lifecycle

Controller

99%less time deploying your servers

Spend

Profile-based automated server configuration

BIOS

NIC/HBA

PERC

iDRAC/LC

Server Configuration

Profile

Multiple usage models

1. Configure 2. Capture 3. Clone 4. Re-provision

5. Maintain Baseline

Apply profiles “at the server”

Integrate with existing processes

Apply during network setup

Use OpenManage Essentials v2.0 to capture, configure and detect configuration drift for 1:M

iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller: Zero Touch Auto ConfigurationStandardized operations with outstanding results

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Standard network share

Deployment is as easy as one, two

1. Rack and cable PowerEdge servers

2. Done, walk away

Standard network resources

Standard DHCP server

Deploy thousands of servers within minutes using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller embedded server automation features designed for any scale and zero manual intervention

iDRAC Simplifies Maintenance

Easy Restore automatically reapplies previous system settings to a new motherboard

Tech Support Report provides detailed Support Assist information replacing the need for DSET

Parts Replacement reapplies the complete component firmware and settings

Firmware updates of most server devices

Setup & monitoring of Automated Updates

Setup of “Zero Touch” Deployment

Comprehensive configuration

Server Configuration Profile

Access to embedded driver packs for OS

deployment

Remote control of boot images for OS

deployment

Remote, automated diagnostics

Backup & restore profile

Log management

Tech Support Report

IO identity management

Hardware inventory

Firmware inventory

Event subscription & notification

Agent-free monitoring of most server devices

Configuration baseline monitoring (with OME)

Performance monitoringPower monitoring & capping

OpenManage Essentials 2.0Easy to install, and simple to use, systems management solution for administrators…now with automated server provisioning

Comprehensive monitoring

Template-based bare-metal server configuration

Automated SupportAssist

Configuration drift detection

Agent-free firmware updates

Stateless Configuration and Migration

Dell Server Configuration Profile and TemplateServer configuration profile is a software definition of a entire server HW configuration settings. It is a logical representation of a physical server. There is a one to one relationship between the profile and physical server.

1:1

Server Configuration Profiles

• BIOS

• RAID

• NIC

• Virtual I/O identities

Virtual MacAddress

WWN, WWPN

iSCSI Name

• iDRAC

1:M

Server Configuration Template

• BIOS

• RAID

• NIC

• iDRAC

Server configuration template isused to simplify the creation of new profiles, helping ensure consistent policies within the system for deployment of servers.

Deployment with logical building blocks

Server Configuration Profiles

• BIOS

• RAID

• NIC

• Virtual I/O identities

Virtual MAC Address

WWN, WWPN

iSCSI Name

• iDRAC

Compute Pool

A set of servers typically share the same characteristics.

• Model

• Memory

• HD, etc

Elasticity is achieved by simply adding or removing

physical servers.

Disaster Recovery/Mobility is accomplished by moving server profile from one physical to another physical server.

Deployment is done by associating a profile with a physical server

Server Template

• BIOS

• RAID

• NIC

• iDRAC

Virtual I/O Pool

Virtual MAC Address

WWN, WWPN

iSCSI Name

OS Image

Location of bootable OS deployment image

SupportAssist integration with OpenManage Essentials

Dell ProSupport Remote Services Customer site

Dell Support

Dell SupportAssistDiagnostics and logs

Remote remediation and parts dispatch

Hardware discovery

Hardware health status

Hardware monitoring

Hardware inventory

Dell

OpenManage

Essentials

Dell ProSupport Remote Services • Auto-case creation• Data analysis

Dell Active System ManagerProfound simplicity in service-centric IT management

ASM Dashboard

ASM Sample Template

Fast and responsive IT automation improves efficiency, accelerates growth & innovation

Unified systems management simplifies and optimizes IT operations

Open and extensible architecture increases flexibility and choice

Dell Active System ManagerDelivering value to enhance Dell’s Enterprise Solutions and Strategy

Active System

Manager

Converged SolutionsUnified and comprehensive user experience for the deployment and ongoing lifecycle management of converged infrastructure and solutions

Future-ReadyEnterpriseOpen and extensible architecture unifies existing IT investments with choice and flexibility to adopt new technology or architectures in the future

Private CloudSimplify and automate IT service delivery for private cloud with foundational capabilities for dynamic, on-demand provisioning of resources from shared pools

Dell BlueprintsASM makes Dell Blueprints and reference architectures come to life with template-based automation for rapid, consistent and repeatable deployment.

Dell Repository Manager

Create a baseline of updates

Create Custom Deployment Packages

Leverage Dell tools for server inventory

Wizard-based configuration

Find and Notify when newer updates are identified

Anywhere, anytime mobile management

OpenManage Mobile

• Monitor and manage remotely, or at the server, it’s your choice

• Speed server deployment with Quick Sync

• Increase IT staff productivity and infrastructure availability

• Resolve a potential issue before it becomes a problem

• Customize views and alerts

Alerts Receive alert

Gather details

Take action

OpenManage integrations for 3rd party solutions

management of Dell PowerEdge servers utilizing existing systems management tools and investments

iDRAC with Lifecycle

Controller

BMC SoftwareBladeLogic

VMware vCenter

Microsoft SystemCenter

Agent-free

Dell OpenManage Connections for 3rd Party Systems Management Consoles

Dell OpenManage Connections are designed specifically for monitoring Dell servers and storage platforms within leading systems management environments

OpenManage Connections enable IT Administrators to:

• Improve operational efficiency and flexibility in managing large heterogeneous data center environments

• Extract richer information about the health and behavior of Dell PowerEdge™ servers and PowerVault™ storage

• Make informed and rapid decisions impacting the availability of data center resources

• Utilize an existing systems management investment to easily incorporate and manage Dell hardware within their infrastructure

Dell Systems Management Delivers Industry-First Innovations and Differentiation

Industry 1st

Integrated PXE-less embedded lifecycle management with MS System Center Industry 1st

• Automatic update notification and update criticality

• Staged out-of -band updates• Package-less rollbacks of

driver, firmware and BIOS updates

Industry 1st

1:Many update Repository ManagerIndustry 1st

Automated discovery for deployment Industry 1st

Remote OS install using WS-MAN

Industry 1st

Automated failed part recovery Industry 1st

Exportable lifecycle event logs Industry 1st

Chassis-Blade Correlation in MS SCCM

Industry 1st

Platform configuration wizardIndustry 1st

Dell Server PRO Management Pack for virtual workloads with SCVMM

Industry 1st

Tested server update bundles

20102009

Industry 1st

Embedded

management

Industry 1st

Dell Server Deployment Pack for MS SCCM

Industry 1st

Media-less embedded systems managementIndustry 1st

Embedded driver pack Industry 1st

Embedded diagnostics and platform updatesIndustry 1st

WS-MAN API automation

2011

Industry 1st

Integrated embedded server lifecycle management with VMware vCenter

Industry 1st

Automated system

settings

backup and restore

Industry 1st

MS System Center Orchestrator integration

with Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM)

2012

Industry 1st

Completely agent-free server monitoringIndustry 1st

Inclusive management console. OpenManage Essentials, that takes advantage of agent-free monitoring Industry 1st

1:Many power management console. OpenManage Power Center

Industry 1st

Agent-free out-of-band monitoring with MSFT SC 2012Industry 1st

Agent-free out-of-band monitoring with VMware vCenter

2014

Industry 1st

iDRAC Quick Sync –Tap a mobile device to manage your server via NFCIndustry 1st

iDRAC Direct —Manage your server from a USB key or cable

Industry 1st

OME manages server configuration and baseline enforcementIndustry 1st

Agent-free, OOB server performance monitoringIndustry 1st

Dell supported Nagios plugin

Dell Repository Mgr: auto refresh from Dell Support Catalog

Let’s get started

Visit the Dell Systems Management kiosks in the Data Center area at the Expo

Hear about new Dell ProSupport Services offers in the Lifecycle Services area at the Expo

Attend OpenManage sessions at Dell User Forum

Schedule an executive briefing with your dedicatedDell account team

Instructor-Led LabsSVHOL1: Centralize Dell HW monitoring and server lifecycle management with OpenManageEssentials

SVHOL2: Server Instructor Led Demo on Dell embedded server management tools – iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller

SVHOL3: Instructor Led Lab for the OpenManage Integrations Suite for Hypervisors using Microsoft System Center

SVHOL4: Simplifying server deployment with Dell PowerEdge Zero-Touch provisioning

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3:30-4:30 2:00-3:00

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