Management Plug-in for VMware Vcenter - VMworld 2011

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Confidential 1 Managing hardware in a virtualized environment is harder than it needs to be “Host deployment is laborious and time consuming“No simple solution for managing virtual infrastructure” Multiple consoles are a part of everyday life” “Managing hardware alerts and their effect on my virtual environment is painful”

Transcript of Management Plug-in for VMware Vcenter - VMworld 2011

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Managing hardware in a virtualized environment is harder than it needs to be

“Host deployment is laborious and time

consuming”

“No simple solution for managing virtual

infrastructure”

“Multiple consoles are a part of everyday

life”

“Managing hardware alerts and their effect

on my virtual environment is painful”

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Dell has listened to your feedback

Make the vCenter console “the” console… BUT

Limit integration to areas appropriate for the console

Don’t make integration just “link and launch” to existing tools

Integrate the things I do most of the time into the console

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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter

Monitoring/AlertingDeep level detail for inventory, monitoring and alerting all available inside vCenter

Dell recommended vCenter actions based on Dell hardware alerts

Deployment/ProvisioningZero-Touch bare metal hypervisor deployment without PXE, leveraging Dell Lifecycle Controller

Firmware UpdatesAbility to deploy BIOS and firmware updates from vCenter

Hardware ManagementOnline access and renewal of hardware warranty

Proactive Systems Management.

Native VMware vCenter plug-in that streamlines tools and task associated management and deployment of Dell servers in your virtual environment

Delivered as a virtual appliance, with no external framework dependencies

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