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”
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Confidential1
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