Why Dell Converged Infrastructure Is Better?
How is Dell™ Virtual Integrated System (VIS) different from other server provisioning solutions? It can shift provisioning and repurpose servers, both physical and virtual, on the fly. It works with industry-standard servers and networking and storage devices. It's completely software based, staying out of the data path. It provisions your entire infrastructure, not just your servers.
That's a lot of words, but the ideas are simple: VIS is dynamic, open, high performance and end to end.
That's a lot of words, but the ideas are simple: VIS is dynamic, open, high performance and end to end.
- Dynamic, Not Static
VIS gives you dynamic server provisioning. Traditional provisioning solutions are static. Once the operating system and applications are installed on the local hard drive of a server, you can't change that server's role without reprovisioning it with a new image. VIS delivers images to servers from central storage so that any server can boot any image at any time. VIS can retarget server images to repurpose servers for optimal capacity management — automatically and in real time. - Open, Not Proprietary
Dell VIS works with industry-standard servers, Ethernet switches, Fiber Channel switches and protocols. Some dynamic infrastructure solutions require proprietary blade chassis modules that aren't really switches. Others require a gateway in between the servers and the data. With VIS, you can leverage your existing IT hardware investment and avoid the vendor lock-in of proprietary modules. - High Performance, Not a Performance Bottleneck
VIS maintains the scalability and performance of your servers, network and storage. VIS is a completely software-based approach. Solutions based on gateways sit in the data path, typically increasing latency and restricting network and storage throughput. Gateway failures can leave all your servers without access to the network and storage — a risk most data centers cannot afford. - End-to-End Infrastructure Provisioning, Not Just Server Provisioning
VIS provisions your entire infrastructure — servers, networking and storage — to maximize the efficiency of your servers, and it can reprovision all parts as demand and business need change. Most other solutions offer only server provisioning, which is just one part of rolling out an application. Without integrated, dynamic provisioning of the entire infrastructure, it's impossible to get the most from your servers and reap the maximum benefits of data center automation.
This revolutionary combination of features can turn a data center full of hardware from various vendors into a highly efficient, automated pool of IT resources — a truly converged infrastructure.
