The Benefits of Converged Infrastructure

• Fulfill service requests faster through automation, including giving users self-service creation and management of virtual servers and clients.
• Deploy servers faster with automatic discovery, inventory and provisioning.
• Scale resources assigned to an application either up or down with just a few clicks (or automatically, based on demand and predetermined policies).
• Create reusable standard application workload templates for fast provisioning and uniform deployments.

• Reduce your spare server counts by as much as 80 percent.
• Slow the rate of new server acquisition by improving server utilization rates and repurposing underused hardware.

Cut your data center power consumption dramatically:

• Automatically shut down unused servers during low-demand periods.
• Reduce your server count by improving utilization rates and using existing servers for multiple workloads.
• Eliminate local disks, reducing power use by as much as 25 percent, through a transition to booting servers from central storage.

Reduce or eliminate many repetitive, time-consuming staff tasks through VIS data center automation:

• Add new servers in a plug-and-play process of automatic discovery, provisioning and integration with the available resource pool.
• Recover from server failures in minutes as the original workload is automatically retargeted to an available spare server. No more 10 man-hour manual rebuilds!
• Reassign resources to meet changing demands with a few clicks (or automatically), rather than through physical changes to the infrastructure.
• Enable users to create and manage virtual servers and clients from a pre-built menu of standard server and client configurations.

It all becomes possible when you apply Dell VIS products to your infrastructure, breaking down your individual IT silos to create a pool of flexible resources.