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 IBM Autonomic Computing
for IBM
xSeries
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eServer™® xSeries® includes a rich portfolio of simply smart management tools designed to support IBM's autonomic computing initiative today. These tools have predictive and proactive features which automate IT tasks, requiring little or no human interaction. These intelligent capabilities are designed to deliver significant IT savings by avoiding unplanned system downtime and by reducing the time and labor associated with managing complex networked environments.
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- Dynamic partitioning
- Mass configuration support
- Automatic software/firmware update (BIOS, device drivers, etc.)
- Self-install and configuration of multiple, replicated, distributed systems (Remote Deployment Manager)
- Active™ PCI, memory
- IBM Director Configuration Wizards
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- Memory mirroring
- Real Time Diagnostics
- Chipkill™ Memory, Hot Spare Memory
- Auto server restart
- Watchdog timer for automated reboot
- Flash Copy™
- RAID
- IBM Director:
- Automated system health management
- Software Rejuvenation to predict and avoid software failures
- Capacity Manager resource bottleneck identification
- Automated corrective action
- Electronic Service Agent - "call home" support
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- Unattended, remote, replicated image deployment (Remote Deployment Manager)
- Automated group bottleneck detection & resolution
- Dynamic server clustering
- IBM Director (Automated Event Action Plans in response to alerts, automated task scheduler, process control tool)
- XpandOnDemand™ Scalability
- Active partitioning
- Active PCI Manager for optimizing I/O throughput
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- Predictive Failure Analysis with automated corrective action
- Automated FRU number reporting (failing part)
- SSL Web-based agent [manages Internet transmission security]
- LDAP [aids in the location of network resources]
- Kerberos [authenticates requests for service in a network]
- VPN
- Digital certificates [provides identity authentication]
- Encryption [prevents unauthorized use of data]
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