Solution Guide

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Introduction to the Active System 1000 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) 1000:
• Rapid and Simple Scalability—The Dell AS 1000 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 1000 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 1000 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 1000 allows for more rapid
application deployments through minimized design, test, procurement, integration,
and configuration phases. One key feature of the Active System 1000 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 1000 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 1000 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 7.1
on Active System 1000 infrastructures.
Audience
IT administrators and IT managers — who have purchased, or are planning to purchase an
Active System configuration — can use this document to understand the design elements,
hardware and software components, and the overall architecture of the solution
Support
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