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IBM Systems Director® 6.1 is the single point of control to manage your data center. It integrates IBM’s best-of-breed virtualization capabilities to provide new and radically improved ways to simplify the management of physical and virtual platform resources. A key feature of Systems Director is a consistent user interface focused on driving common tasks. IBM Systems Director provides a unified view of the total IT environment, including servers, storage and network. This allows end user tasks to be done with a single tool – IBM Systems Director.
Use IBM Systems Director along with IBM Tivoli Software, to help reduce datacenter management headaches and expense.
IBM Systems Director is the next generation platform management solution of IBM Director. It can improve the total cost of ownership and decrease management costs by eliminating the need to maintain multiple tools and improving the utilization of existing IT resources. With IBM Systems Director® 6.1, you can optimize the utilization of the heterogeneous hardware and systems software in your datacenter. This includes IBM Power Systems®, System x™, IBM System z®, and IBM BladeCenter® to IBM Storage Systems® and select non-IBM servers – as well as PowerVM™ to VMWare® to zVM®, from AIX® and IBM i® and Linux® to Microsoft Windows®™.
IBM® Systems Director 6.1 is the systems management foundation that streamlines the way physical and virtual systems are managed across a multi-system environment. IBM Systems Director 6.1 is an easy to use, point and click, simplified management solution. Through a single user interface, IBM Systems Director provides consistent views for visualizing managed systems, determining how these systems relate to one another while showing their individual status. This helps you to correlate technical resources with your business needs.
A key feature of IBM Systems Director is IBM® Systems Director VMControl V2.2. VMControl represents a transformation from managing virtualization to using virtualization to better manage your IT infrastructure. VMControl V2.2 simplifies the management of virtual environments across multiple virtualization technologies and hardware platforms, freeing you from ‘silos of virtualization’ and delivering enterprise-wide visibility and control. A leading multi-platform virtualization management solution, VMControl is now available in three Editions (Express, Standard or Enterprise) to best match your virtualized environment.
IBM Systems Director provides the base function needed for platform management. Advanced platform management functions can be seamlessly added to IBM Systems Director as they are required. Based upon industry standards, IBM Systems Director can report results to other tools. IBM provides solutions and enhanced system and service management integration to drive greater operational, virtualization and energy efficiency for a dynamic infrastructure. Together, IBM Systems Director and Tivoli can deliver a set of unified offerings that help companies manage and align virtual systems, servers and storage resources needed for cloud computing.
IBM Systems Director 6.1 is being enhanced with new functions including support for programming interfaces which provides a comprehensive Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to manage your data center. By utilizing REST API interfaces, IBM Systems Director resource monitoring/management and events are supported across multiple platforms providing a ecosystem around IBM Systems Director platform management capabilities.
Key features of IBM Systems Director 6.1:
* Unifies the management of IBM systems, delivering a consistent look and feel for common management tasks.
* Integrates IBM’s best-of-breed virtualization capabilities to provide new and radically improved ways to simplify the management of physical and virtual platform resources
* Provides essential platform management support for all IBM servers, storage and network devices (discovery, inventory, health, maintenance updates, configuration, automation, remote control, etc.)
* Includes an extendable and modular foundation to advance the core systems management capabilities with additional plug-ins
* Enables seamless integration of IBM systems with the total infrastructure
* Facilitates reduced training cost by providing a consistent and unified platform management foundation and user interface
* Manages non-IBM x86-based systems through a dedicated agent
* Enables integration of IBM Systems into data center management tools from Tivoli and other 3rd parties
* REST web services for application integration with Systems Director
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