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DELL CONFIDENTIAL – PRELIMINARY 6/14/10 - FOR PROOF ONLY
Features of Dell Performance and Resource
Optimization Management Pack 2.0 (PROPack)
The Dell OEM Essentials 2010 solution enables administrators to use a single
console to help centralized management of physical resources and virtualized
business services.
Essentials 2010 Server integrates with the Dell OpenManage suite to simplify
the management of Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized environments based on
Dell servers. This integration is based on Dell PRO Pack capabilities that
allow Dell OpenManage health alerts passed to Essentials as PRO Tips and
recovery actions to be driven from Essentials 2010. Dell PRO Pack recovery
actions minimize downtime of critical services hosted on virtualized Dell
server infrastructures. PRO Pack recommends remedial actions, such as
migration of virtual machines to a healthy host or placing the host in
maintenance mode, depending on the health state of the server host.
Dell Server PRO Pack version 2.0 supports systems running Windows Server
2008 x64 based hypervisors by continuously monitoring the health of the
virtual environment. Dell Server PRO Pack version 2.0 provides option for
live migration of virtual machines (VMs) on Windows 2008 R2 based hosts.
For non R2 hosts, the Quick Migration option is available.
With the unified console of Essentials 2010, the following PRO features are
not directly available.
• If user disables PRO Tips for a host in SCE console, the host status will
change from "monitored" to "not monitored".
• No option to exclude VMs from host level PRO actions, in case of a host
having multiple VMs and the user decides to ignore PRO Tips for selective
Virtual Machines.
• No option for bulk implementation/dismissal of PRO Tips.
• Dell logo may not be displayed as part of the individual events in the PRO
Tips Window.
NOTE: For more information, see the PRO Pack 2.0 User Guide available on the Dell
Support website at support.dell.com/manuals.
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