IP Address Management (IPAM), DNS & DHCP Virtual Solutions

Executive Summary

Organizations are faced with the mounting challenge of how to control their growing IP infrastructure. Lacking the proper tools, administrators continue to rely on spreadsheets and other outdated tools to manually track, allocate and manage IP addresses and networks. Added to this is the need to integrate popular addressing services, such as DNS for naming, and DHCP for address assignment, to provide the ability to track dynamic IP usage across the network.

Organizations are struggling to keep up with their IP Address Management (IPAM) demands and need to invest in a solution that will automate IP requests, integrate with existing software and provide the enterprise-level functionality needed to meet today’s business demands. This investment comes at a cost, and to help offset the costs, an increasing number of organizations are turning to virtualization. Not only does virtualization reduce costs, it increases datacenter utilization and simplifies management.

With an intelligent IP Address Management (IPAM) solution and a more resilient DNS/DHCP service running in virtualized environments, organizations are now able to rapidly provision DNS and DHCP for capacity handling, as well as relocate services from one server to another for enhanced disaster recovery support – all without having to install any additional physical systems.

The following whitepaper will explore the challenges associated with managing your existing IP infrastructure and the benefits to running a virtualized IPAM platform.