IBM Director 6.1 – Management tool to reduce TCO
IBM Systems Director 6.1 addresses the total cost of ownership (TCO) by allowing management of a data centre both physical and virtual efficiently, from one place with one interface at the click of a button. Simplified platform management streamlines the way physical and virtual systems are managed across a multi-system environment which results in faster time-to-solution in the event of a problem higher return on investment (ROI); a tailored fit between features and functions and an accelerated, more flexible response to changing business goals and strategies.
Systems Director 6.1 allows for automation that drives operational agility by increasing responsiveness and the ability to scale quickly and efficiently.
Qualifying Customer Pain-points
• Increased Cost Recurring IT costs for training and maintaining multiple tools in absence of a single interface for managing virtual and physical systems.
• IT Management Complexity and Performance Complex operations results in poor performance and delayed data access. A heterogeneous server and storage environment can lead to increased complexity, costs, low efficiency and inefficient capacity usage.
Why IBM Director
• Reduces the complexity of virtualisation through understanding and communicating the relationship of physical servers to virtual servers
• Reduces the time associated with analysing unavailable systems by providing topology graph views to show relationships between virtual and physical systems and their manageable components to simplify troubleshooting
• Enhances productivity through a simplified easy to use Web-based user interface for management of virtual and physical systems
• Protects IT investments by utilising an open standards-based design that facilitates the management of IBM multisystems environments and select non-IBM systems
• Seamlessly integrates with enterprise management products from IBM Tivoli and other software vendors
• Improves IT efficiency by easily integrating with single system platform management products for AIX, IBM i, System z, System x and even Solaris (!)
• Reduces IT costs for training and maintaining multiple tools by providing one easy to use interface for management of virtual and physical systems
• Reduces systems maintenance window churn by supporting currency for physical and virtual servers as well as operating systems
• Reduces human error by providing automated support of VMware’s Motion based upon physical hardware status information.
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