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Dell PowerOne Autonomous Infrastructure to Make Deploying, Managing and Consuming IT Easier

All-in-one system with automation for PowerEdge servers, PowerSwitch networking, PowerMax storage and options for PowerProtect data protection deployed, managed and maintained holistically

Dell Technologies, Inc. announces PowerOne autonomous infrastructure to make deploying, managing and consuming IT easier for organizations.

Dell Powerone System

PowerOne integrates PowerEdge compute, PowerMax storage, PowerSwitch networking and VMware virtualization into a single system combined with a built-in intelligence engine to automate thousands of manual steps over its lifecycle. (1)

PowerOne autonomous infrastructure automates IT so customers can focus less on managing technology and more on benefiting from it,” said Jeff Boudreau, president, infrastructure solutions group, Dell. “As we look to the future, PowerOne offers a tremendous leap forward. It helps customers focus on unleashing the power of data, al,ing IT teams to innovate and achieve business goals faster.

Dell Powerone Scheme

PowerOne autonomous infrastructure empowers users to focus on outcomes
At the heart of PowerOne’s autonomous operations is a built-in, advanced automation engine. It empowers users to focus on their business, whether that means deploying workloads, applications, or developing new products and services. Much like lane assist, navigation and other features in autonomous vehicles, the vehicle does most operations on its own while the passenger must let th car know the desired destination. PowrOne’s automation allows administrators to state a desired business outcome – and the system calculates the way to do the rest.

The automation engine takes advantage of a Kubernetes microservices architecture and uses Ansible workflows to assist users by automating the component configuration and provisioning, delivering a customer-managed datacenter-as-a-service.

PowerOne provides a single system-level API, giving users the control to create business objective-specific pools of resources. This API can be tied into existing tools, such as service portals, to deliver programmable vs. manual IT operations. This is known as Infrastructure as Code – virtually eliminating the need to log in to individual component management systems. With PowerOne, organizations can create workload-ready VMware clusters in a few clicks (2).

Examples of PowerOne autonomous benefits include:

  • Launch Assist speeds installation and configuration using built-in workflows based on VMware Validated Designs and the company’s best practices. PowerOne helps save time by automating the installation and configuration of hardware and VMware clusters.

  • Lifecycle Assist helps reduce infrastructure risk by simplifying daily operations and life cycle management with automated modular system updates and validation, continually checking the correct hardware and firmware settings.

  • Expansion Assist matches infrastructure with business needs by adding, removing or reassigning capacity and resources through automated provisioning and scaling features. Customers can more easily align operations with business requirements.

All-in-One System delivers power of Dell
PowerOne is designed to deliver the services, security and resiliency required by mission critical and emerging AI and ML applications while providing easy integration into cloud management toolsets, such as VMware vRealize.

Dell Powerone System Full

PowerOne components include:

  • PowerOne Controller: This onboard appliance is the automation engine. It uses a Kubernetes microservices architecture and Ansible workflows to automate the configuration, provisioning and lifecycle management of the components.

  • PowerEdge MX: This modular server’s, no-mid-plane design enables PowerEdge MX to support multiple gens of technology releases, such as microprocessors, new storage types and new connectivity innovation, into the future. PowerOne automates this kinetic infrastructure, assigning resources as required to deliver a dynamic compute experience that scales according to need.

  • PowerSwitch: The company’s switches power some of the largest web-scale environments and offer users a choice of OSs to best fit their requirements. PowerOne reduces complexity by abstracting and automating the switch hardware so that the virtual network is automatically provisioned for VMware workloads.

  • PowerMax: A storage (3) array delivers performance without complexity through a combination of architecture, simple operations, and innovation. For added simplicity and to speed operations, PowerOne automates storage provisioning and zoning and dynamically expands new cluster groups when it detects new resources.

  • PowerProtect: To safeguard the data’s value, PowerOne also can benefit from the full PowerProtect data protection portfolio to address changing growth and governance requirements. This offers cloud-enabled protection storage, integrated appliances and software-defined solutions.

Dell Powerone Tabl1To help organizations realize production benefits even more quickly, the firm’s services offers ProConsult advisory and migration services, ProDeploy onsite experts to accelerate adoption, and ProSupport Plus for ongoing support with a single point of contact. (4)

Joining the company’s cloud family as a validated design, PowerOne helps customers simplify their path to hybrid cloud by combining the power of firm’s infrastructure with VMware cloud software. This helps remove the complexity of managing multiple clouds by bringing consistent infrastructure and operations across private clouds, public clouds, and edge locations.

PowerOne flexible consumption offers on-prem infrastructure, on-demand
Modern workloads need the ability to scale on-demand to meet changing business requirements. PowerOne is available through newly announced Dell Technologies on Demand, empowering customers and channel partners to do business in ways that make sense for them. It delivers hybrid cloud agility with the control and performance of on-prem infrastructure. Customers pay for what they use when they use it – just like a service. This makes it easier for organizations to plan, budget, deploy and manage the entire IT lifecycle.

With Dell Technologies on Demand, businesses can choose between several flexible pay-per-use options, along with global support, deployment, and managed services, all designed to simplify and reduce the management of on-prem IT. This gives customers the freedom to shift IT infrastructure spending from one-time capital expenses to ongoing operational expenses in a predictable and sensible way.

PowerOne will be globally available November 22, 2019.

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Dell Powerone Spectabl

Eric Sheppard, research VP, infrastructure platforms and technologies, IDC, said : “The value of IT has shifted dramatically for organizations around the world. IT infrastructure is now viewed as a driver of critical business outcomes rather than a static set of assets requiring innumerable hours of management. Dell EMC has clearly designed PowerOne for such a world by offering mission critical infrastructure that is capable of providing genuine autonomous IT operations.

Stephen Ayoub, CEO, Data Blue, said: “Our customers want to eliminate as much complexity as possible so they can be both more strategic and efficient. With PowerOne, they can avoid routine infrastructure maintenance in order to focus on higher value transformational outcomes. This is a much better use of their time and resources.

Resources:
PowerOne product page
PowerOne overview video
ESG First Look report

(1) Based on internal Dell EMC testing, September 2019. Analysis of manual steps replaced by PowerOne automation on a 16 node four chassis system over 5 years. Actual results will vary.
(2) Based on internal Dell EMC testing, September 2019. Analysis of manual steps replaced by PowerOne when automating VMware cluster creation on a 16 node 4 chassis system. Actual results will vary.
(3) Based on Dell EMC internal analysis of maximum bandwidth (64K blocks) of the PowerMax 8000 (350GS/s) vs. max bandwidth of competitive mainstream arrays, July 2019. Actual performance will vary.
(4) Availability and terms of Dell EMC Services vary by region and by product.

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