Dell Active System Manager
Active System Manager is Dell’s unified management and automation solution that simplifies the deployment, provisioning, and management of heterogeneous resources and workloads - for private cloud or any environment of shared or converged infrastructure.
Active System Manager takes a top-down service-centric approach to IT automation that spans across both physical and virtual infrastructure and encompasses everything from servers, switches, and storage, to hypervisors and clusters, to virtual machines, operating systems, and applications, Active System Manager provides a unified and comprehensive user experience for the initial deployment and the ongoing lifecycle management of shared or converged infrastructure.
For demo videos, self-help videos, and additional resources on ASM, please see the links below in this page.
Announcing
LatestRelease- ASM 8.0
The new ASM 8.0 release simplifies installation, adds capabilities that further accelerate and simplify the onboarding and configuration of physical and virtual infrastructure, and enables comprehensive lifecycle management of both resources and services for IT administrators.
For more on the new features in ASM 8.0, read here.
ASM 8.0 also introduces a new pricing strategy, unleashing a bold move to further differentiate Dell solutions in the market by delivering significant value to our customers at a lower price and better total cost of ownership (TCO). With a reduction in list price of nearly 90%, ASM is now available for a single, simple, and low-cost annual subscription fee that includes the product license, software updates, and technical support.
For more on the new pricing for ASM 8.0, read here.
ASM User Interface
Active System Manager 8.0 features a unified dashboard that shows the health and status
of deployed services along with the used and available resources, and uses a graphical
template builder that enables administrators to easily define automation tasks, leveraging
pre-built resource modules and templates.
Clear and Profound Benefits
With Active System Manager, IT administrators can:
- Accelerate IT service delivery by automating and centralizing key functions, such as workload and infrastructure deployment.
- Discover and deploy new resources with speed and confidence with guided workflows and a wizard-driven graphical interface.
- Free up IT staff by dramatically reducing manual tasks and touch points so IT can focus on strategically aligned projects.
- Use infrastructure more fully and efficiently by pooling server, storage, and network resources based on your specific requirements.
- Standardize workload delivery to increase deployment accuracy and to scale your workloads based on business demand.
- Manage infrastructure lifecycles with comprehensive firmware updates, compliance, and remediation across server, network, and storage resources.
- Maximize investments in both Dell and Non-Dell IT resources — with support for heterogeneous IT environments.
ASMDemoVideos
ToviewdemosofASM,pleasevisitthispage. ASM Self-Help Videos To view self-help videos of ASM on a variety of topics, please visit thistheASMVideoSeries page here. Additional Resources For more information on ASM, check out the following resources:
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