Dell South Africa has introduced new software that will make it easier for companies to manage the computers that power enterprise and Internet infrastructures. The company also outlined its roadmap for additional systems management tools.
Known as Dell OpenManage, these tools ease the installation and configuration of Dell PowerEdge and Dell PowerApp servers, as well as PowerVault storage systems, while enhancing system status monitoring, enabling remote systems management, and helping organisations manage and track assets. "We are making significant investments to enhance our systems management portfolio," says Sean Wainer, enterprise product manager for Dell SA. "New offerings such as these will help our customers to more effectively manage their growing computing infrastructures."
Dell has updated two components of its systems management suite, Dell OpenManage Server Assistant and Dell OpenManage IT Assistant with new features. Dell Server Assistant, which helps customers set up their Dell servers - installing the operating system, configuring drivers and so on - now includes the ability to configure RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks) and storage arrays at the time of system set-up.
Wainer says this new feature enables IT managers to completely set-up a server with RAID support in about 20 minutes. "Nearly twice as fast as was possible before," he adds.
Dell IT Assistant helps customers manage Dell servers by monitoring status, such as internal temperature, and alerting IT managers with screen-based, e-mail, and pager messages when there are problems.
Version 6.0 integrates new RAID and storage subsystem management as well as access to the Remote Assistant Card in a single user interface. The updated agent-based application helps IT managers effectively troubleshoot problems by automatically launching the appropriate management application. Because all Dell OpenManage tools feature a convenient Web-based interface, systems management is available to administrators from virtually any location on the network.
Dell plans to further simplify systems management next year by consolidating existing management tools into one Web-based console. This console will provide individual system health monitoring and management, as well as management of clusters and storage area networks.
Dell`s approach to building the Internet infrastructure, known as scaling out, adds servers and storage incrementally, as warranted by business demand. The latest versions of Dell OpenManage IT and Server Assistant will ship with all new Dell servers.
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