Solution Guide

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800)
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1 Introduction to the Active System 800 Solution
Today, many IT organizations are missing deadlines or cannot respond fast enough to customer
demands, have insufficient IT budgets, or have to manage trade-offs. In response, convergence in the
data center has emerged as a trend in IT to address the growing needs for agility, efficiency, and
quality. IT organizations are rapidly adopting converged infrastructure solutions to lower the cost of
running critical workloads, enable faster infrastructure deployments, and drive simplicity and speed of
management.
Below are some high-level solutions for the Dell™ Active System (AS) 800:
 Rapid and Simple Scalability—The Dell AS 800 is a part of the Active Infrastructure
family, which includes fully pre-integrated converged infrastructure solutions. As one
of the pre-integrated solutions offered, the Dell Active System 800 is a scalable blade
server and storage infrastructure designed to support private cloud infrastructures.
Able to add compute and storage capacity as needed in a non-disruptive manner, the
Active System 800 offers many different configuration options for varying business
conditions and sizes for a highly utilized IT infrastructure.
 Quick and Easy Provisioning—The Dell Active System 800 allows for more rapid
application deployments through minimized design, test, procurement, integration,
and configuration phases. One key feature of the Active System 800 is the Active
System Manager, which offers streamlined, automated processes, as well as a quick
response to dynamic business needs through template-based, modular infrastructure
provisioning. This allows IT infrastructures to achieve higher efficiencies and more
accurate delivery of IT services. A single IT generalist can manage most common tasks
via the streamlined and automated processes delivered through the Active System
Manager.
 Automated and Efficient—The Dell Active System 800 enables your data center to
reach its maximum potential, and reduces the complexity and amount of time spent
manually managing storage functions through automation for a more efficient and
simplified management. This allows the Dell Active System 800 to support the efficient,
agile delivery of applications and IT services made possible by a private cloud
infrastructure, delivering true IT as a Service through private cloud benefits such as
self-service portals and chargebacks.
This document describes the deployment and management of Active System Manager 7.0 on Active
System 800 infrastructures.