Improve High Availability and Business Continuity with AIM

Achieve total high availability for the enterprise, at a fraction of the cost of solutions offering less flexible protection, with Dell™ Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM). A workload mobility and recovery management solution included in the Dell Virtual Integrated Systems (VIS) architecture, AIM provides a cost-effective way to deliver high availability for all x86-based data center applications — without the need to maintain duplicate hardware or redundant software licenses — by:

• Using a vendor-neutral disk image as the basis for all server workloads
• Repurposing any server in the data center instantly with a reboot
• Creating new workloads within hypervisors automatically
• Auto-detecting server failures
• Retargeting the failed server’s image to available computing capacity
• Handling multiple hypervisor environments from a single point of management

AIM’s server images abstract out hardware, storage and network dependencies so that workloads can be assigned the proper configuration of resources automatically. With this approach, you can:

• Restart servers within a virtual environment, avoiding services interruption and enabling seamless addition of a new physical server to an AIM-based resource pool
• Scale up applications to meet rising utilization requirements by providing rapid refreshes of server hardware
• Leverage existing infrastructure fully with AIM’s server-repurposing features
• Focus on innovation rather than maintenance by automating routine processes
• Reduce workload for IT staff significantly