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PAN Manager is a comprehensive infrastructure orchestration solution that offers the following key benefits:
The simplicity of PAN Manager starts from day one with out-of-the-box functionality. While other infrastructure orchestration solutions require a massive reconfiguration of storage and network infrastructures, PAN Manager will discover, encapsulate and manage existing SAN and network resources without disrupting current operations. You don't have to purchase and install individual point products, each with their own system requirements, licenses, support agreements and release schedules.
Its intuitive, point-and-click interface enables administrators to easily deploy and re-deploy infrastructure resources as needed. In addition, policy-based provisioning and events management configurations mean that your data center resources will automatically adjust to unpredictable spikes in user demand or other events.
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PAN Manager offers unprecedented control and agility when creating and assigning applications to the right processing resources. Its unique capabilities save time while delivering capacity on demand, high availability and disaster recovery. PAN Manager empowers you to:
- Respond to business demands by provisioning and repurposing servers in minutes
- Improve operational efficiency when configuring, re-configuring, or failing-over servers
- Increase hardware efficiency through reuse of hardware
- Maintain business continuity with automated disaster recovery that works every time
- Mix servers of varying computational capacity within a single environment. With PAN Manager, you can ensure that each application has the CPU and memory resources it needs without limiting migrations to identical server models.
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Most infrastructure management solutions work in either a physical server environment or a virtual server environment—but not both. PAN Manager seamlessly integrates both physical and virtual servers, so you don’t have to learn separate tools or partition your data center resources.
Using PAN Manager, you can:
- Provision virtual and physical servers from the same pools of storage and network resources
- Assign an application to either a physical or virtual server on demand
- Move an application from a physical to virtual environment during off-peak hours
- Employ automatic physical-to-virtual conversion
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PAN Manager can substantially lower your capital and operational expenditures by up to 70 percent over a three-year period. In fact, many enterprises using PAN Manager have achieved positive payback in as little as one year.
PAN Manager’s ability to dynamically provision and repurpose physical and virtual servers can reduce capital costs by eliminating the need to purchase:
- 1-to-1 backup servers for applications
- Over-provisioned servers for application scalability
- NICs and HBAs for each server in the data center
- Duplicate software licenses for failover and disaster recovery environments
- Cluster software to support application failover
In addition, PAN Manager helps lower operational expenses by allowing you to:
- Decrease run book steps by up to 75 percent with simplified policy-based operations
- Reduce the labor required to install and configure systems for new applications
- Eliminate service and support costs for unneeded hardware and software products
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Finally, PAN Manager helps improve business time-to-market by enabling you to:
- Deploy new applications when needed by the business units
- Maintain strict SLA’s for application availability and user responsiveness
- Provide high availability and disaster recovery to all applications
- Allocate time for new technology projects that will improve data center efficiency
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