Redefining Efficiency in the Virtual EraDell Virtual Integrated System (VIS)

Alex Sizeland

EMEA Enterprise Technologist

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Evolution of the Dell Virtual Integrated System

Q1 CY 2010• Introduced Dell’s Virtual

Integrated System Strategy• Released Dell Advanced

Infrastructure Manager • Introduced Revolutionary versus

Evolutionary approach

Q3 CY 2010• Delivering Dell’s Virtual

Integrated System Strategy with Introduction of• VIS Self-Service Creator• VIS Director

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The Virtual Era Has Begun

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

Capital Costs

IT Management Time

Flexibility

Mainframe Era

Client/Server Era

Virtual Era

High

Low

Today

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The Virtual Era Has Begun

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

Capital Costs

IT Management Time

Flexibility

Mainframe Era

Client/Server Era

Virtual Era

High

Low

Today

ProcessAutomation, Integration of activities and tools

PeopleStreamline repetitive activities, Consoles and

Tasks

TechnologyHeterogeneous, Physical and Virtual, Servers,

Storage and Networking

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Competitive Differentiation

Infrastructure focused solution

Full feature capability only in virtual environment

Choice of Add-on technologies

Focused on IT Specialist

Competitive Offerings

Address inefficiency in IT – Technology, People and

Processes

Choice of technologies in the core offering

Heterogeneous support of compute, networking and

storage

Full Featured support of Physical and Virtual

environments

Consolidating tasks in virtualization console

Driving functionality to mid-market

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IT operational efficiency without sacrificing flexibility and choice.

IT costs that are predictable and controlled

Reduce Dramatically reduce the tools and tasks

Improved quality of service with auto-remediation

IT end users have instant access IT resources

Comprehends and support both physical and virtual environments holistically

Leverage existing investments in training and infrastructure

Streamline

Gain Access

Improve Service

Virtual and Physical

Leverage

Control

Streamline and automate processes and automated recommendations

Capacity Planning &

Trend Analytics

Cost Allocation

Dependency Mapping

Self-service Portal

Automatic Workload

Provisioning

Resource Tiering and

Pooling

Infrastructure

Provisioning

Compelling and CompleteDell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Architecture

Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Architecture

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Advanced Infrastructure Manager

Intelligent Hardware

VIS Self-Service Creator VIS Director

Dell VIS Infrastructure

Dell VIS Delivery Center

Serv

ices a

nd

Su

pp

ort

Simple catalog based self-service and automatic deployment of

workloads

End-to-end infrastructure and service monitoring and planning

Rapid deployment of compute, storage, and networking resources

Integration Suite

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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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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

s

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

Resource Tiering and

Pooling

Infrastructure

Provisioning

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Dell VIS Director

Out-of-the-boxAlerts

Accurately diagnose the root-cause of incidents and speed mean-time-to-resolution

Maps events to customizable remediation actions

Tracks infrastructure utilization and costs so they can be recovered for the services provided

Create and track service tiers of resources for future planning

Quickly identify problems occurring in the virtual infrastructure

Remediation

Chargeback

“What-if” Planning

Service Tier Management

Detailed View of

Infrastructure

Scenario modeling to support resource planning and impact analysis

Command center for Dell’s next generation data center, with an intuitive end-to-end view of the data center, that proactively identifies performance and capacity issues and automatically remediates and provides expert guidance for the IT administrators.

Capacity Planning &

Trend Analytics

Cost Allocation

Dependency Mapping

Self-service Portal

Automatic Workload

Provisioning

Resource Tiering and

Pooling

Infrastructure

Provisioning

Advanced Infrastructure Manager

EqualLogic Group Manager

VIS DirectorVIS Self-Service Creator

IT user requests VM

Automated approval process

VM is auto-provisioned for user

Monitor detects and diagnoses two threshold alerts

Workflow engine kicks of two remediation processes

AIM discovers, configures and boots a new ESX host

AIM adds the ESX host to VMware automatically

EQL provisions a new storage volume

Volume is added to VMware cluster automatically

Storage & Host resources added to virtual platform automatically

Approval requests and admin functionality integrated with vSphere client

VMware vSphere Client

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With Dell VIS the experience is automated

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Dell Services & Support for VIS Engagements

Focused, high-impact engagements Clear phases and decision points Validated repeatable process Flexible, modular approach

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