Managing Heterogeneous Data centers and Multihypervisor Environments

Cloud computing can help government organizations worldwide meet challenges presented by tight budgets, demanding constituents and strict data protection regulations; however, existing infrastructures may be too diverse to combine effectively under a cloud.

Learn how Dell’s private cloud management platform, delivered through Dell™ Virtual Integrated System (VIS) suite, supports government agencies with multihypervisor environments as they implement cloud computing initiatives aimed at maximizing efficiency and reducing costs. Dell VIS suite is anchored by Dell’s Future-Ready Infrastructure, a flexible, dynamic environment that supports multihypervisor and multivendor pools of resources and optimizes workloads for the best-suited hypervisor platform.

Dell VIS suite includes the following solutions:

• Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) — provides the centralized management framework that combines hardware and virtualization platforms from disparate vendors into one unified cloud.
• Microsoft® System Center — enables centralized and automated management of the physical and virtual elements in the data center to increase server utilization and optimize resource allocation across multiple locations and virtualization platforms. Integrated with Microsoft Hyper-V™, System Center works with VMware® ESX and other hypervisors to perform common management tasks such as creating, placing, deploying and removing virtual machines. System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), a key component of the System Center solutions, delivers end-to-end, virtual-to-physical visibility and management of multivendor hypervisor environments. SCVMM also supports a range of virtualization options in addition to servers, such as desktop, application and presentation virtualization.
• Dell VIS Self-Service Creator — provides authorized users with a portal where they can automatically select and deploy resources and then manage the resources throughout their life cycle. It works across all the resources in the cloud, from virtualization hypervisors to connection brokers to storage devices and server image deployment technologies, regardless of vendor.
• Dell VIS Director — provides the monitoring and reporting functions needed to fully leverage the benefits of a cloud environment. Performance monitoring, capacity planning and cost-allocation features provide comprehensive visibility and transparency for healthcare IT utilization.

The combination of AIM and System Center supports dynamic allocation of servers, network connectivity and storage; automatic and intelligent redeployment of workloads; and seamless migration of data between physical servers and virtual machines.

Dell also offers unified control for dynamic, heterogeneous data centers and supports a wide variety of infrastructure elements, regardless of manufacturer, model, form factor or access protocol. Virtualization-ready infrastructure hardware from Dell includes embedded management tools that help automate daily tasks, lower costs and optimize operations.

Backed by experienced Dell representatives who are on hand to assess organizational needs and design solutions, and implement them effectively, government entities are assured of ongoing support and growth.