Dell Active System Manager
Active System Manager isDell’sunifiedmanagementandautomationsolutionthatsimplifiesthedeployment,provisioning,andmanagementofheterogeneousinfrastructureandworkloadservices.
ActiveSystemManagertakesatop-downservice-centricapproachtoITautomationthatspansacrossbothphysicalandvirtualinfrastructureandencompasseseverythingfromservers,switches,andstorage,tohypervisorsandclusters,tovirtualmachines,operatingsystems,andapplications,ActiveSystemManager provides a unified console and highlyintuitivecomprehensive user interfacethatenablesyoutoautomateexperiencefor the initial deployment and theongoinglifecycle management of ITservicessharedorconvergedinfrastructure.Thisspeedsupworkloaddelivery
AnnouncingASM8.0
ThenewASM8.0releasesimplifiesinstallation, streamlinesaddscapabilitiesthatfurtheraccelerateandsimplifytheonboardingandconfigurationofphysicalandvirtual infrastructuremanagement, and enables youcomprehensivelifecyclemanagementofbothresourcesandservicesforITadministrators.FormoreonthenewfeaturesinASM8.0,readhere.
ASM8.0alsointroducesanewpricingstrategy,unleashingaboldmove to improveyourservicelevelsfurtherdifferentiateDellsolutionsinthemarketbydeliveringsignificantvaluetoourcustomersatalowerpriceandbettertotalcostofownership(TCO).Withareductioninlistpriceofnearly90%,ASMisnowavailableforasingle,simple,andlow-costannualsubscriptionfeethatincludestheproductlicense,softwareupdates,andtechnicalsupport.
WhatcanyoudoFormoreonthenewpricingforASM8.0,readhere.
ActiveSystemManager8.0featuresaunifieddashboardthatshowsthehealthandstatusofdeployedservicesalong with theusedandavailableresources,andusesagraphicaltemplatebuilderthatenablesadministratorstoeasilydefineautomationtasks,leveragingpre-builtresourcemodulesandtemplates.
ProfoundBenefits
With Active System Manager ?youcan:
- Accelerate IT service delivery by automating and centralizing key functions, such as workload and infrastructure deployment.
- Discoveranddeploynewresourceswithspeedandconfidencewithguidedworkflowsandawizard-drivengraphicalinterface.
- Free up IT staff tofocusonstrategicallyalignedprojects by dramatically reducing manual tasks and touch points soITcanfocusonstrategicallyalignedprojects.
- Use your infrastructure more fully and efficiently by pooling server, storage, and network resources andschedulingthemforfuturedemandsbasedonyourspecificrequirements.
- Standardize workload delivery to increase deployment accuracy and to scale your workloads based on business demand.
- Manageinfrastructurelifecycleswithcomprehensivefirmwareupdates,compliance,andremediationacrossserver,network,andstorageresources.
- Maximize investments— in both Dell and Non-Dell IT resources — with support for heterogeneous IT environments.
HowisActiveSystemManagerdifferent?
ActiveSystemManagerprovidesauniquesetofcapabilitiesdesignedwithITadministratorsinmind.Theyinclude:
- Template-basedprovisioningandorchestration. SimplifyITservicedeliverywithacentralizedapproachtoworkload-specificconfiguration.Youcanusestep-by-stepguidelinestoexecutetasksduringeveryphaseoftheworkloadlifecycle.
- Infrastructurelifecyclemanagement. Discover,inventoryandconfigureassets—fast—tostreamlinephysical/virtualinfrastructureandworkloadmanagementduringeveryphaseoftheinfrastructurelifecycle.
- Deepvirtualizationintegration. Managecluster-levelandvirtualmachine(VM)lifecyclesforVMwarevSphereplatforms.
- Resourcepooling&dynamicallocation. OptimizecapitalexpendituresbycreatingandmanagingphysicalandvirtualITresourcepools.
- Dramaticallysimplifiedmanagement. Useapowerful,intuitiveuserinterfacetosetup,deployandmanageyourITenvironment.Youcanalsointegrate3rdpartytools.
- Openandextensiblearchitecture. EasilyintegrateexistingandfutureITresources–bothDellandNon-Dell.
For more information:
- Active System Manager Documentation
- ASM Power Solutions Article Service-centric Approach to IT Automation
- Active System Manager Open and Extensible Architecture Blog and Video
- Active System Manager and 3rd Party Hardware Blog and Video
- Active System Manager and Automation
- Service-centric Approach to IT Automaton