Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM)

Achieve More: Transform, Perfect and Optimize With Dell AIM

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Dell™ Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) is a software solution designed to help you transform your data center. With AIM, you can achieve a simplified, flexible data center infrastructure that is dynamic, supports workload mobility and allows for rapid deployment and speedy disaster recovery. The following is a high-level list of features:

 

Join the IT Revolution — Transform Your Data Center With AIM

  • Modernize IT with a quick and reliable consolidation and technology migration process, with minimal risk.
  • Improve capacity allocation and resource operation by rapidly repurposing compute resources.
  • Automate and unify a diverse infrastructure with easy-to-use management features.

Operate Efficiently — Perfect the Relationship Between IT and the Business

  • Reduce downtime with AIM-enabled, cost-effective hardware allocation and disaster recovery solutions. Data recovery can be accomplished in the time it takes to reboot the servers.
  • Shorten time to value with reduced test and development times.
  • Adjust to business demands by scaling capacity up or down as needed by the business.

Optimize Your Investments — Use What You've Got — Don't Pay for Unnecessary Resources

  • No rip and replace. Get the highest and best use from the heterogeneous hardware mix you already have by improving server utilization.
  • Expand functionality with existing software investments by extending them with AIM integration packages. Use AIM Open APIs to further extend functionality to other management software packages1 or consoles.
  • Use the technologies best suited for your business and reduce licensing costs.

"The way that AIM handles workload mobility is unique and allows the application to quickly move to new servers in the event of an outage. We were not able to find another cost-effective way to get there. In addition, AIM will allow us to scale the architecture on demand as needed in the event that the load on the Blackboard infrastructure is higher than predicted."
 — Jim Bottum, CIO, Clemson University
Realize your data center goals with the  truly integrated infrastructure management application — Dell AIM. Lower licensing costs with the money-saving plug-ins for multihypervisor environments that are included with AIM for Microsoft®, VMware® and BMC software. Further reduce cash outlay for power and cooling with Green IT support from AIM.

Read more about how Dell AIM can help you make the most of your infrastructure. At the bottom of this page, there are numerous resources available, such as software specifications, detailed case studies, hardware selections, consulting services details and more. Or contact your Dell | AIM representative to answer all of your questions.

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1 AIM Includes integration packages for Microsoft System Center Orchestrator, VMware ESX and BMC Atrium Orchestrator; however, you are not limited to these packages. You can add integration to other software solutions with the AIM Open APIs.

AIM Consulting Services

Get up and running quickly and successfully with experienced Dell consulting and implementation services.

  • Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager Technology Introduction and Proof of Concept

    Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager Technology Introduction and Proof of Concept

    Test drive the Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) in your lab environment, and tap into proven methodology and best practices for your implementation.

  • Efficient Architecture Workshop

    Efficient Architecture Workshop

    Discover how next-generation technologies such as rapid provisioning, automatic high availability and cloud-ready infrastructures can transform your data center.

  • Cloud Computing Workshop

    Cloud Computing Workshop

    Begin your journey with an introduction to cloud computing. Learn how you can transform your data center with Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service using a public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructure.

  • Cloud Computing Road Map Accelerator

    Cloud Computing Road Map Accelerator

    Discover the right cloud computing solution for you. Based on an in-depth analysis of your current architecture, Dell will help you determine which applications to place into public, private or hybrid clouds, along with a road map for implementation.

AIM Software

Learn more about the capabilities of Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager.

Dell PowerEdge Servers

Simplify implementation and management, and provide maximum flexibility and performance using Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers designed specifically for virtualization.

  • Dell PowerEdge M610 Blade Server

    Dell PowerEdge M610 Blade Server

    The Dell PowerEdge M610 blade server delivers exceptional performance per watt, with adaptive power states, and 50 percent greater memory capacity than the M600, a critical component to virtualization and database performance.

  • PowerEdge R810 Rack Server

    PowerEdge R810 Rack Server

    Increase memory scalability without cost penalty. FlexMem Bridge technologies allow two processors to access 32 DIMMS delivering the memory scalability for all demanding virtualization workloads.

  • PowerEdge R710

    PowerEdge R710

    The Dell virtualization powerhouse, the R710 two-socket, 2U rack server efficiently blends processing technology, memory capacity and I/O (input/output) scalability for virtualization performance.

Dell Storage

Choose from multiple shared storage platforms to enable advanced virtualization capabilities, including workload management, high availability and disaster recovery.

Dell Networking

Maximize throughput and port density with networking products built on open standards.

Case Studies

See how organizations around the world are driving IT efficiency with Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager.

Resources

Get the most out of your investment using our tactical guidance and best practices guides.

Demonstrations