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Active System Manager
Active System Manager provides a unifiedconsoleandhighlyintuitiveuserinterfacethatenablesyoutoautomatethedeploymentandmanagementofITservices.Thisspeedsupworkloaddelivery,streamlinesinfrastructuremanagementandenablesyoutoimproveyourservicelevels.
Forconvergedmanagement,DellActiveSystemManagerisacomprehensiveinfrastructureandworkloadautomationsolutionforusebyITadministratorsandteams.Itsimplifiesandautomatesthemanagementofheterogeneousenvironments,enablingITtorespondmorerapidlytodynamicbusinessneeds..ASMisbasedonanopenandextensiblearchitecturethatfeaturestemplatebasedautomationandunifiedmanagement.ThesefeaturesenableyoutorapidlydeliverITservicestomeetdynamicbusinessneeds.
ActiveSystemManagerprovidesasingle console for Active Systems, and automates infrastructure and workload delivery, while providing end-to-end Active System management. Active System Manager is available on all Active Systems and with their respective reference architectures.
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PowerEdgeMI/OAggregator
Hereisavideoonusing the PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator for converged networking:
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Whitepapers
- PowerEdge M1000e blade and EqualLogic PS Series SAN Design best practices using Force10 switches by SIS
- Whitepaper comparing the power efficiency of blade server solutions from Dell, Cisco, and HP
Blogs
- M1000e blades enclosure full end-to-end DCB solution
- Leveraging Dell Active System for an easier Lync Server 2010
- Converged Infrastructure with Exchange, Lync, SharePoint