Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager Spec Sheet

Transform your data center into a dynamic, flexible and operationally efficient IT infrastructure with Dell™ Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM). AIM's many features enable you to achieve workload portability and business service resilience. AIM — a unified resource management platform — helps you run your data center more efficiently by centrally managing your physical and virtual resources. AIM allows rapid provisioning and configuration management across servers, plus network and storage connectivity. With AIM, you can reduce the need for server redundancy and expensive clustering solutions, and provide recovery management through automatic, intelligent redeployment of workloads across the infrastructure.

AIM provides the following key features:

• Rapid server reprovisioning simplifies the provisioning process through instant provisioning of servers, network connectivity and storage access, as well as quick and easy migration of server images between local disks and central storage.
• Cost-effective server failover automatically detects server failure and establishes network and storage connectivity for the spare server, eliminating the need for complex and expensive clustering solutions while still protecting all of your applications against hardware failures.
• Highly efficient, shared IT infrastructure creates an enterprise computing cloud of any size internal to your company. AIM also allows you to provision capacity in real time, granting individual high-demand business system servers more physical machine capacity on an as-needed basis, without increasing the number of servers in the data center.
• Virtualization-ready system automates discovery and hypervisor management and any virtual machines (VMs) already configured. Additionally, AIM provides seamless workload mobility between physical servers and virtual machines, without conversion.
• Heterogeneous support works with multiple vendors' servers, networks and storage arrays, and supports multiple server form factors, all with multiple hypervisors.

AIM offers the following benefits:

• Works with your existing infrastructure and cabling to help transform your data center infrastructure from static to dynamic, delivering flexibility and operational efficiency
• Helps you transition to a more dynamic data center and preserve your investment in your existing infrastructure
• Enables you to achieve workload portability and reduce of underused resources
• Provides you with business service resilience and simplifies disaster recovery by automatically detecting server failure and replacing a failed server with a spare server anywhere in the infrastructure