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Whether your IT environment consists of a few servers or a few thousand servers,

Dell™ OpenManage™ systems management solutions provide comprehensive management for evolving IT environments. OpenManage is based on open standards and provides agent-based and agent-free server lifecycle management functionality for Dell PowerEdge™ servers. OpenManage solutions help you automate and streamline essential hardware management tasks.

The advanced management capabilities of Dell OpenManage also integrates into offerings from other popular systems management solutions that you may already use, making Dell platforms easy to manage and deploy in any IT environment. This ensures your IT services are available when your business needs them. If you have already standardized on offerings from industry leaders, such as

BMC Software, Microsoft, Symantec, VMware, or other vendors, you can leverage OpenManage integration and connections developed for use with your existing systems management framework to efficiently manage Dell servers, storage, business-client PCs, and network devices.

Start with a firm foundation for efficient hardware management using OpenManage tools, utilities, and management consoles. OpenManage systems management solutions consist of a combination of embedded management features and software products that help you automate and simplify the entire server lifecycle: deploy, update, monitor, and maintain. OpenManage solutions are innovatively designed for simplicity and ease of use to help you reduce complexity, save time, achieve efficiency, control costs, and empower productivity.

Dell systems management solutions include a wide variety of tools, products, and services that

enable you to leverage an existing systems management framework. As shown in Figure 16, Dell

systems management solutions are centered around OpenManage server management, featuring iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller.

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