Optimize SAP HW DeploymentwithDell Active System Manager
Ondřej BačinaEnterprise Solutions Marketing Manager
Twitter: @OndrejAtDell
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„Dell is not just IT infrastructure we are much more than that“M. Dell
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Layers of complexity deploying & managing IT services
Infrastructure
Operations
Applications
IT Service Delivery
• Managing interoperability & other issues• Juggling multiple support contracts• Infrastructure managed within silos
• Delivering application best practices• Sizing for users and scaling• Ensuring performance & availability
• Expanding virtualization• Ensuring performance & capacity• Lowering operational costs
• Automation and orchestration• Lifecycle Management• Enabling self-service provisioning
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What if you could transform your IT environmentinto a unified, automated, service-centric data center?
Infrastructure Centric
Data Center
IT Service Centric
Data CenterBusiness View• Innovator• Service provider• Growth enabler
Characteristics• Elastic• Nimble• Modular• Integrated• Streamlined• High quality• Automated• Software-defined
Business View• Maintainer• Infrastructure provider• Cost center
Characteristics• Fixed• Slow
• Custom• Fragmented• Silo’ed• Unpredictable• Manual
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Shift your focus to service-centric IT managementwith Dell Active System Manager
Optimize IT operations by simplifying and unifying enterprise systems management
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Dell Active System ManagerFast, efficient and flexible
• Speed up time to production with automated onboarding, configuration and deployment
• Eliminate time-consuming steps and minimize risk through template-based automation
• Respond quickly and avoid disruption by easily scaling resources on the fly
• Lower your operating costs through more efficient use of IT resources
• Reduce errors and manage your environment efficiently with a unified console and highly intuitive interface
• Simplify complex infrastructure and workload deployments with reusable automation templates
• Build and deploy converged solutions that are tailored to your needs with an open and flexible automation tool
• Ensure investment protection with support for current and future IT resources, including Dell and third-party
• Integrate ASM into IT environments leveraging powerful ASM features and automated workflows
Increase flexibilitywith an open and extensible
architecture
Accelerate growth & innovationwith fast and responsive IT
automation
Optimize IT operationsby simplifying and unifying enterprise systems mgmt
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Active System ManagerUltimate speed and simplicity for the service-centric data center
Manual tasks can takedays, weeks, or months
Multiple administrators + Multiple tools + Manual process =
Potential failures/errors
Servers Storage Networking
Virtualization OS/Applications
With Active System Manager,in just minutes
Single administrator + Single tool + Automated process =
Reliable results, every time
Active System Manager
Unified Management & Automation
For IT Infrastructure & Services
Maintain
Deploy
Discover
Define
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Provision infrastructure and workloads in minutes
Dell Active System ManagerFastest path to production
to implement ASM and deploy new infrastructure
than Cisco UCS solution
71% fewer steps
Provision hardware and deploy an ESX cluster than Cisco UCS solution
94% fasterunder
3 minutes
Onboard, update, and configure new blade
infrastructure
*Principled Technologies Report, Simplify deployment, save time with Dell Active System Manager, April 2015.
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Dell Active System ManagerElegant simplicity, superior value
for ASM versus Cisco UCS Director *
95% lower cost
“Intuitive, wizard driven
automation makes ASM easier to use than a
Cisco UCS solution …” *
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6 stepsFor an administrator to deploy a new service *
*Principled Technologies White Paper, Simplify deployment, save time with Dell Active System Manager, April 2015.
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80% faster deployment
Free up valuable system administrator time
From set-up to deployment in under 16 minutes*
• Implement Dell Active System Manager and deploy your new infrastructure up to 80% faster than with a Cisco solution
• Less time deploying means more time innovating in the data center
*Principled Technologies White Paper, Simplify deployment, save time with Dell Active System Manager, April 2015.
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71% fewer steps
Reduce the risk of errors
Save set-up time and reduce the chance of human error*
• Active System Manager cut the number of steps to deploy a cluster and deliver services by 315 steps compared to the Cisco solution
• Fewer steps means faster and more accurate results
*Principled Technologies White Paper, Simplify deployment, save time with Dell Active System Manager, April 2015.
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Build the foundation for your private cloudWith essential capabilities, from onboarding through service delivery
Automated service delivery• Template-based provisioning of end-to-end
infrastructure and workload services
• Integration with cloud portals
Infrastructure lifecycle management• Comprehensive infrastructure lifecycle management,
including scaling of capacity
• Resource pooling and dynamic allocation
Rapid infrastructure deployment• Fast and efficient onboarding of new converged
infrastructure
• Initial configuration of servers, networks, storage
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Active System Manager High Level Architecture
NetworkServersStorageVirtualization Applications
Resource Modules
ASM Server Appliance
Resources & Applications
User Interface
3rd Party * Tools
REST API
IdentityMgmt
Resource Pooling
Service Templates
Database
Automated
Open
Automated
Comprehensive
Easy to Use
Automation
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View comprehensive inventory details
Wizard based chassis, blade, and IOM onboarding
Understand resource state
Manage heterogeneous resources
Define and utilize resource pools
Quickly discover, auto-inventory and onboard resources
Discover
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Easily define IT services and comprehensive infrastructure requirements via templates
Define
Graphically based easy-to-create templates
Best practices captured using in box or custom templates
Import existing templates to speed creation
Easily capture complex resource settings
Share templates with template portability
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Rapidly deploy templates to create services Deploy
Select templates from library catalog
Simple two button service deployment
Deploy a template multiple times
View deployment status and history
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Efficiently maintain services and infrastructure Maintain
Monitor service status
Retry failed services
Scale up and migrate running services
Link and launch to element managers
Baseline and update BIOS and firmware levels
Seamless ASM upgrades
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Dell Active System ManagerDelivering value to enhance Dell’s Enterprise Solutions and Strategy
Active System
Manager
Converged SolutionsUnified and comprehensive user experience for the deployment and ongoing lifecycle management of converged infrastructure and solutions
Future-ReadyEnterpriseOpen and extensible architecture unifies existing IT investments with choice and flexibility to adopt new technology or architectures in the future
Private CloudSimplify and automate IT service delivery for private cloud with foundational capabilities for dynamic, on-demand provisioning of resources from shared pools
Dell BlueprintsASM makes Dell Blueprints and reference architectures come to life with template-based automation for rapid, consistent and repeatable deployment.
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Active System ManagerKey features and benefits
Open and extensible architecture enables simplified integration of existing and future heterogeneous IT investments
Protect IT Investments
Service templates based on best practices ensure reliable, repeatable, and automated infrastructure and workload deployments
Increase accuracy and consistency
Simplify Management
Wizard-driven automation drastically reduces number of steps and amount of admin time required to onboard, configure and deploy infrastructure and workloads
VM
Accelerate IT Service Delivery
ReduceRisk
End to end automation reduces the number of manual touch-points resulting in fewer errors and improved IT service quality
Unified console & intuitive UI provide a consolidated view of infrastructure and workloads and simplify the onboarding, deployment and lifecycle management of IT resources
Service mobility provides abstraction of infrastructure configuration and identity information within service templates, enabling migration of workloads across servers and other devicesAvoid
Downtime
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Service MobilityImprove Service Availability
Spare Server Resource
MAC/WWN assigned to template, not hardware
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Disaster Recovery Hardware basedData transfer managed by shared storage system
Data Center 1
Still appears as one system to user and applications(Allows use of secondary systems as QA/Dev when not in failover mode)
Data Center 2
Primary SAP HANA instance(Active)
Option 1 – Inactive standbySecondary SAP HANA instance
w/Inactive Standby System
Data transfer controlled by storage systemData transfer controlled by storage system
Option 2 – Standby & QA/DevSecondary SAP HANA instance w/Active QA/Dev, Inactive Stdby
Additional storage to support QA/Dev load
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Opportunity:
Accelerate and simplify delivery of IT services to University of Wisconsin end users
Solution:Integrated solution including Dell servers, networking fabric, and storage, with Active System Manager automation software
Results:• Consolidate and build a
private cloud infrastructure
• Offer IT as a campus service
• Respond more rapidly to user requests for IT resources and applications
Dell Active System Manager is an important part of the University of Wisconsin –Madison’s strategy to aggregate distributed campus computing infrastructure.It enables us to provide scalable, reliable, consistent, and efficient IT services.
Steve Krogull, Director Systems Engineering and Operations, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Keep up with evolving infrastructure demands
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Opportunity:Massive server and OS deployment and staging of OpenStack compute node installation
Accelerate IT service delivery by automating and centralizing workload & infrastructure deployment. Solution:Over 3000 Dell PowerEdge C-series cloud server blade systems (in 3 phases), with Active System Manager automation software
Results:Radical reduction in deployment times
Without ASM: ~20 man weeks to manually stage and install
With ASM: ~7 days to deploy with ASM automation
A reduction of 95% in initial deployment time
Scaling up a Federal Government Agency
The customer was impressed with Active System Manager’s capabilities for rapid deployment of their large scale server and OS environment. And after seeing the full feature set of ASM, the customer was grinning ear-to-ear as they realized how ASM will further simplify the lifecycle management of their IT environment.
Dell Major Accounts Manager, Federal Government
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Lokální úspěšná instalace
1TB SAP HANA for BW
- Předinstalováno OS/SAP
- Stačí pouze dokonfigurovat
- Dokoupena remoteinstalace
- Stačilo pouze připojit k internetu a kolega z Dell SAP Teamu dokonfiguroval
- Vše ostatní zařizoval Mibcon&SAP
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Let us help you on your journey to service-centric IT
Active System ManagerUnified Management and automation for private cloud and converged infrastructure solutions
Accelerate growth & innovationwith fast and responsive IT
automation
Optimize IT operationsby simplifying and unifying enterprise systems mgmt
Increase flexibilitywith an open and extensible
architecture
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