How Dell Does IT: Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM)
Dell wanted to move its Oracle WebLogic middleware environment to a VMware based virtual infrastructure to enhance efficiency. The company installed Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager on Dell PowerEdge blade servers.
Date
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5/1/2011
By giving us improved dynamic control over our virtual infrastructure and the ability to provision physical servers regardless of the hardware layer, Dell AIM allows us to provision cloud services faster and virtualize applications that couldn’t otherwise be virtualized.
Jonathan Senger, Enterprise Architect, Dell, United States
Challenge
Dell wanted to ascertain the benefits and efficiencies it could realize by moving its Oracle® WebLogic middleware environment to a VMware® based virtual infrastructure, but it needed to ensure that software vendor support could be retained.Solution
Conduct a proof of concept using Dell™ Advanced Infrastructure Manager on Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers to decouple workloads from the servers supporting them, providing the ability to move quickly and seamlessly between virtual and physical worlds.Benefits
• Able to virtualize applications that couldn’t otherwise be virtualized while retaining software vendor support• Projected 80 percent reduction in rack footprint required to run middleware stack (2 racks vs. 10)
• Able to provision new cloud services in minutes vs. weeks or months
• Projected 30 percent decrease in management time required for middleware stack
• Able to dynamically repurpose hardware and software
• Improved hardware lifecycle management, since new server models can be quickly integrated into the cloud
