Add on-demand capacity and dynamic failover to VIS environments with Dell AIM

Learn how the Dell™ Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Self-Service Creator can help. When you use VIS Self-Service Creator in combination with Dell VIS Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM), you can add vital functionality that will protect your data when a server hardware failure occurs.

You can leverage Dell AIM with your VIS Self Service Creator environment to do the following:

• Detect Server hardware failures automatically and restart a failed system image on an available spare physical server without technician intervention.
• Establish connectivity to the network and the spare server’s storage automatically.
  Provision new servers quickly to provide additional computing resources.
• Perform dynamic host failover and rapid server provisioning for VMware® ESXi™ hosts.
• Instantiate additional ESXi hypervisors in existing VMware clusters, which helps you to meet the changing resource demands of the virtualized environments, while VMWare Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) rebalances the end-user workloads on the new cluster expansion.
• Dynamically target system images, including operating systems and hypervisors, on any server, without making any changes to the server hardware, network or storage area network (SAN).

Review the Dell-developed and validated reference architecture for VIS Self-Service Creator and the VMware vSphere™ ESXi infrastructure. Failover was provided and tested by AIM in a proof-of-concept environment. Architecture key benefits, deployment best practices and management guidelines are included.